Edition : Autumn 2010
Battery Pack Integration in a Vehicular Environment
Modern vehicles have many systems and a simplistic view would be to consider each of these systems as separate and independent. However, as we strive for more and more energy efficiencies, particularly when it comes to hybrid and electric vehicles, it becomes more important to manage power and energy storage by making sure the systems are integrated with each other and work together in the best possible way.
Feeding the Omnivore Engine on Gasoline, Ethanol and Diesel
‘Omnivore’ is Lotus’s new engine concept which combines variable compression ratio (VCR), variable charge trapping, direct injection (DI) and the 2-stroke operating cycle to produce an engine theoretically free of throttling loss and with the attributes to operate in wide-range homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) at very high efficiency with minimal emissions.
Q&A with Dr Henri Winand, CEO Intelligent Energy
Intelligent Energy is a leading clean power systems company specialising in the application of fuel cell technologies in a number of industrial sectors, including automotive. just-auto editor Dave Leggett caught up with CEO and Executive Director Dr Henri Winand.
The Effect of Hub Motors on Vehicle Dynamics
The current interest in the development of EV and HEV vehicles has led to considerable discussion about the relative merits of chassis or hub mounted motors. Much of the debate has been concerned with issues of vehicle package, cost and driveline efficiency, however, the effect on vehicle dynamics has also emerged as a key factor, with apparently conflicting attributes making the advantage of one layout over the other difficult to define.
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Issue 37 : Integration Techology [Summer 2010] (soon - ik stond achter)
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