Vehicle Design

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The Electric Vehicle Design page hosts a collection of resources aimed at exploring the evolving architecture of electric vehicles. Featuring reports, research papers, and industry insights, this section delves into how EV design is transforming traditional vehicle structures, from battery placement to lightweight materials and aerodynamics. Whether you're focused on the technical or aesthetic aspects of EV design, these materials provide a wealth of knowledge to help shape the future of electric vehicle innovation.

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Electric Vehicle Design

Electric urban light vehicles structural integrity and occupant protection validation through experimental crash tests

Multi-Moby project, funded under H2020 n° 101006953, aims at developing technology for safe, efficient and affordable urban electric vehicles. The objective of the paper is to show the results achieved in relation to structural integrity and occupant protection in the first year of the project. In a first stage simulation tools have been used to optimise the vehicle structure crashworthiness at different crash configuration based on smart use of High Strength Steels focused to simplified and affordable manufacturing processes. Once the structural behaviour met requirements and expectations, the restraint system has been developed. After design optimisation, three vehicles have been prototyped to perform three crash tests, two of them frontal, corresponding to Regulation 137 and Regulation 94, and one lateral, corresponding to Regulation 95.

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Electric Vehicle Designers, Electric Vehicle Drivers, Electric Vehicle Manufacturers, Vehicle Safety Engineers

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E-Volve Cluster, Electric Vehicle Affordability, Energy Efficiency, Light-Duty Vehicles, Urban Vehicle Concepts, Vehicle Safety

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Sciencedirect.com

Electric Vehicle Design

European Initiatives for User-Centric Design of Electric Vehicles

E-mobility is revolutionizing the automotive industry by improving energy-efficiency, lowering CO₂ and non-exhaust emissions, innovating driving and propulsion technologies, redefining the hardware-software-ratio in the vehicle development, facilitating new business models, and transforming the market circumstances for electric vehicles (EVs) in passenger mobility and freight transportation.

Ongoing R&D action is leading to an uptake of affordable and more energy-efficient EVs for the public at large through the development of innovative and user-centric solutions, optimized system concepts and components sizing, and increased passenger safety. Moreover, technological EV optimizations and investigations on thermal and energy management systems as well as the modularization of multiple EV functionalities result in driving range maximization, driving comfort improvement, and greater user-centricity.

This paper presents the latest advancements of multiple EU-funded research projects under the Horizon Europe framework and showcases their complementarities to address the European priorities as identified in the 2Zero SRIA, namely EFFEREST, MINDED, and SmartCorners. EFFEREST targets energy efficiency, comfort, safety, and affordability of EVs through considering knowledge from real-fleet behavior and personalization of data. MINDED aims to maximize EV’s driving range by improving the thermal- and energy management of an electric minibus to reduce energy consumption while optimizing thermal comfort, and therefore directly impacting the user acceptance. SmartCorners provides scalable, flexible, and user-centric smart corner systems including e-axles and e-corners based on in-wheel powertrains. SmartCorners aims at introducing smart corner systems based on in-wheel powertrains as underlaying technology toward software-defined vehicles, enabling rightsizing, holistic optimization, innovative fault mitigation and actuator allocation strategies as well as more efficient, adaptive, predictive, and personalized system operation.

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Academia and Research Institutions, Automotive Component Manufacturers, Electric Vehicle Designers, EV Manufacturers

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2ZERO, Digital Twin, E-Volve Cluster, EFFEREST, Energy Efficiency, Human-Machine Interfaces, In-Wheel Motors, Minded, Model Predictive Control, SMARTCORNERS, User-Centric Design

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Zenodo

Electric Vehicle Design

Multi-Moby – Smart solutions for safe, efficient and affordable light electric vehicles

Multi-Moby is an ambitious project aiming at quickly finalising the results of a cluster of ongoing and past European projects, addressing the development of technologies for safe, efficient and affordable urban electric vehicles (EVs). This paper presents the developments that have been implemented in the first half of Multi-Moby, which deals with low-cost M1 and N1 EVs, to be manufactured via low-investment and lean processes and plants. The Multi-Moby EVs have excellent passive safety characteristics, enhanced by pre-emptive active safety controllers. The vehicles can be coupled with efficient 100 V or 48 V powertrains. Fast charging is enabled by the integrated design of hybrid supercapacitor-battery cells and wall box chargers. The project will also consider low-cost automated driving solutions, with focus on gimbal-based camera systems for environmental sensing and detection.

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Automotive Engineers, Consultants in Sustainable Transportation Solutions, Electric Powertrain Researchers, Electric Vehicle Drivers, Electric Vehicle Manufacturers, Electric Vehicle Market Researchers, Vehicle Safety Engineers

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E-Mobility, E-Volve Cluster, Electric Vehicle Affordability, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Vehicle Safety

Link:
Sciencedirect.com