The development plan given describes the approach which ASL/Engineering recommends for the design and development of advanced electric passenger vehicles as a logical continuation of the preliminary design effort performed in Phase I of the Electric Vehicle Design Program. This plan considered not just the problem of the design, fabrication, testing and delivery of ''one-off'' demonstration vehicles, which come as close as possible to meeting the ERDA vehicle design goals, but also the problem of phasing this development effort into the requirements of H.R. 8800, and, more generally, into limited commercial production. As a consequence, the plan includes discussions of such factors as FMVSS compliance testing, durability and reliability testing, tooling, and marketing. The approach recommended for future phases of ERDA's electric vehicle program involves the development of three basic design approaches for the propulsion system, any of which can be incorporated into the same basic vehicle design. The three propulsion system design approaches have been detailed in the Design Tradeoff Studies Report prepared under this contract; their basic characteristics are summarized, and the projected performance, operating range, and cost characteristics are given. Each of the approaches is currently at a different level of development. The motor is a design which has been built and tested by Prestolite, both on the dynamometer and in a vehicle. The controller is a commercially-available unit from Cableform, and the automatic transmission is a slightly modified production unit. (ERA citation 03:008736)
Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Development Plan
1977
129 pages
Report
No indication
English
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