Deliver To:

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Amer.Virgin Is.
  • American Samoa
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Antarctica
  • Antigua Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bonaire, Saba
  • Bosnia-Herz.
  • Botswana
  • Bouvet Island
  • Brazil
  • Brit.Ind.Oc.Ter
  • Brit.Virgin Is.
  • Brunei Daruss.
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • C. African Rep.
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • Christmas Islnd
  • Coconut Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Curacao
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Dem. Rep. Congo
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Rep.
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guin
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Falkland Islnds
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Frenc.Polynesia
  • French Guiana
  • French S.Territ
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greater China (Chinese Mainland)
  • Greater China (Hong Kong SAR)
  • Greater China (Macau SAR)
  • Greater China (Taiwan)
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guam
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Heard McDon.Isl
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
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  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islnds
  • Martinique
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mayotte
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Minor Outl.Isl.
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • N.Mariana Islnd
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Niue
  • Norfolk Island
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Pap. New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Pitcairn
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Reunion
  • Romania
  • Russian Fed.
  • Rwanda
  • S. Sandwich Ins
  • S.Tome,Principe
  • Saint Helena
  • Saint Lucia
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Sint Maarten
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • St Kitts&Nevis
  • St. Vincent
  • St.Pier,Miquel.
  • Suriname
  • Svalbard
  • Swaziland
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad,Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turksh Caicosin
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Utd.Arab Emir.
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vatican City
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Wallis,Futuna
  • West Sahara
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

EV Charging Infrastructure

Enabling fast, safe and reliable EV charging.

Woman In orange charging her car

EV Charging Infrastructure

Enabling fast, safe and reliable EV charging.

Modern white car plugged in at charging station

Supporting the transition to smart, energy efficient transportation

Eco-friendly lifestyle choices coupled with a desire to save fuel costs are driving demand for electric vehicles (EVs). Add on the larger industry-wide push towards lower carbon mobility and you have a clear, mission-critical need for expanded infrastructure. That means more charging stations and related equipment required to support it and better integration with smart grid technology.  

The bottom line? EV charging needs to become more convenient, more efficient, and more sustainable than it is right now. At Dow, our MobilityScience™ team is engineering innovative materials that can support the EV charging infrastructure of today and tomorrow.  

We’re exploring how to unlock the potential of the industry. Relying on expertise and critical insights in material science, we designed innovative and high-performance silicone, impact modifiers for engineering resins, and polyurethane options for key EV charging applications.

Discover how Dow’s materials can help meet the needs of EV charging systems – including charging guns, charging cables and busbars, charging station housings and power electronics. Need more help? Our MobilityScience™ team is here for you. Connect with an expert now.

Cars plugged in at a public charging station

Silicone materials for EV charging infrastructure product selection guide

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Red electric car charging

Charging Guns

How can we help build a world in which passengers have access to Level III DC (Direct Current) fast-charging infrastructure? A key piece of that puzzle is the reliability of charging guns (connectors).

Incorporating our thermally conductive, silicone protection and assembly materials into charging gun designs can bring a more reliable driving experience to consumers and significantly enhance the EV charging process – improving reliability, safety, functionality, and efficiency.

Charging gun application areas

Transparent view of a charging cable which moves electricity from charging source to vehicle
Thermal Management

We have a wide range of high-performance silicone materials designed to support the transfer and release of heat generated from high-current charging gun cables, including:
 

  • Silicone heat transfer fluid
  • High-consistency silicone rubbers (HCR)
  • Liquid silicone rubbers (LSR)
  • Sealants and adhesives
  • Encapsulants and pottants
  • Gap fillers
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Charging gun device for charging an EV form an external power
Protection and Assembly

Interiors of printed circuit board (PCB) modules, charging gun connectors and charging housing cabinets contain sensitive components, such as capacitors, semiconductors and magnetic devices, and  power devices with high heat output.


DOWSIL™ silicone conformal coatings, pottants and encapsulants can be used in rigid and flexible circuit boards, connector pin sealing, sensitive components, and other fine-pitched designs to protect against environmental contaminants and heat while meeting varied reliability standards.

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Electric car charging in the snow
Engineering Resins

Public charging guns can face harsh weather conditions ad heavy use. To endure these challenges an extend lifespan, the thermoplastics in charging gun housing and handles need to be modified with additives.
 

PARALOID™️ Impact Modifiers enhance toughness and impact resistance, even at low temperatures, in various engineering resins for EV charging guns. Our modifiers also support processability and mechanical recyclability for reuse in other demanding applications.

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Engineering Materials

VORANOL™ polyols and ISONATE™ isocyanates provide unique, cost-effective formulation strategies for thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) for charging guns and electrical cables.

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Heat Transfer Fluids

Invest in quality fluids to ensure freeze protection and longevity for EV charging infrastructure.
 

DOWFROST™ and DOWTHERM™ Heat Transfer Fluids can aid in keeping charging station components cool through effective heat transfer, while helping to extend the life of the system.

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Charging Cables & Busbars

Smarter, more intuitive, and more electric vehicles mean more complicated internal components. Electrical cables and wire connectors play an important role in vehicle design, whether it’s for converting voltage, streamlining communication, or enabling faster charging. With silicones, smaller more complex designs can be achieved.

Charging cables & busbars application area

  • Busbar coated in high consistency rubber for usage in an electric vehicles
    Thermal Management

    DOWSIL™ silicone cooling fluid provides high thermal stability and excellent electrical insulation in a wide temperature range – making it suitable for charging guns and other electrical equipment that operate at high or extremely low temperatures.
     

    SILASTIC™ high-consistency silicone rubbers (HCR) and ceramifying HCR are also reliable materials for coolant tubes, charging cable insulation and busbars. They offer high thermal conductivity that supports transfer and release of heat generated from high-current charging gun cables or for high-voltage cable insulation with excellent thermal resistance, mechanical properties and high flexibility. 

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    EV in garage plugged into residential charging station

    Charing Station Housings

    MobilityScience™ offers a wide range of thermal management and protection technologies that can help address your specific challenges in EV charging station housings – helping unlock reliability, charging speed, safety, compatibility and efficiency.

    Charging station housings application areas

    Charging station housing interior view with power devices
    Thermal Management

    Dow’s high performance silicone thermal management materials, including sealants and adhesives for shell and door applications, are designed to address varying requirements for adhesion, component staking, vibration damping, and compression.
     

    VORATRON™ Polyurethane Systems allow the development of thermally conductive adhesives, gap fillers and pottants, that help enhance safety and fire protection.

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    Charging station housing exterior view
    Protection and Assembly

    DOWSIL™ silicone adhesives offer durable bonding, sealing and gaskets for charging pile cabinet doors, helping improve safety and performance. DOWSIL™ silicone foam offers rapid room-temperature curing, crevice-filling, vibration-buffering, and excellent heat and flame protection.
     

    We also engineer VORAFORCE™ composite solutions, which offer significant load bearing strength, corrosion and UV resistance, and improved flame retardancy properties, for cable management applications such as cable trays.

    SEE VORAFORCE™ PRODUCT GUIDE
    Electric car charging in the snow
    Toughness and Resiliency

    Charging station housings must be resilient to tough weather conditions and public use. Contributing to extended lifespan and mechanical recyclability, PARALOID™ Impact Modifiers facilitate improved durability, toughness, impact resistance and processability in the full range of engineering resins for EV charging housings. 

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    Empty parking lot of EV charging stations

    Power Electronics

    This new era of e-mobility demands safer, more durable vehicle electronics that are sensitive to environmental contamination and heat. From PCB modules to charging stations, MobilityScience™ has innovative materials that can not only protect power electronics and devices from harmful contamination, but also support high-power fast charging.

    Informed by decades of experience in protectives for electronic control units (ECUs) and power electronics, our broad range of DOWSIL™ and SILASTIC™ technologies can be tailored to meet desired performance targets, including: 

    • Thermal conductivity
    • Easier processing
    • Next-level durability
    • Corrosion-resistance
    • Proper insulation for high-voltage systems
    IGBT rendering demonstrating dispensable thermal pad isolated on a white background

    Thermal Management for IGBT / Inverters

    Dow offers different types of high-performance thermal management materials for IGBT and inverter applications, including:

    • Compounds 
    • Gap fillers
    • High-temperature gels
    • Pottants
    • Encapsulant
    Inside view of X-DC power device expanded with components showing

    Thermal management and protection for control units

    DOWSIL™ electromagnetic conductive adhesives and conformal coatings can be used in the control box and PCB of X-DC power electronics control units.

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