Ultralight cars molded from net-shape advanced composites can be several-fold lighter than present steel cars, yet safer, sportier, and more comfortable, durable, and beautiful. Modern hybrid-electric drives boost efficiency approximately 1.3-1.5x in heavy steel cars, but approximately 5-20x in ultralight, very slippery plafforms. Designing cars more like aircraft and less like tanks requires not only an approximately 400-500 kg curb mass and very low air and road drag, but also an aerospace philosophy of engineering integration.
Hypercars: The Next Industrial Revolution
1996
28 pages
Report
No indication
English
Combustion, Engines, & Propellants , Feasibility analysis , Cost incentives , Research vehicles , Composite structures , Energy conservation , Composite Materials , Transportation energy , Road Transportation , Propulsive efficiency , Engine Studies, Energy Related , Economic factors , Automated mixed traffic vehicles , Automobiles
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