Lightweight Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Design
Lightweight Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Design
Lightweight Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Design
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Motor control alterrnatives, 117<br />
Motor design data, 59<br />
Motor efficiency, 60<br />
Motor specifications, 12<br />
Motor types, 71<br />
Motor types and locations, 11<br />
Motorpak combination package, 26<br />
Motors compared for three EV categories, 20<br />
Ni–Cad packages and capacities, 32<br />
Nickel–metal hydride battery, 108<br />
Operating points for IM and BDC motors, 23<br />
Optimizing motors, drives and batteries, 24<br />
Packaging inverter electronics, 22<br />
Painless transition to fuel-cells, 89<br />
Partanen new concept al-battery, 36,38<br />
PEM fuel cell construction, 42<br />
Peugeot 106 EV, ixx<br />
Peugeot–Citroen Berlingo Dynavolt, 128<br />
Plastic mouldings for open canopy shells, 178<br />
PNGV programme: impetus for change, 98<br />
Pollution control measures, 92<br />
Polymer composite structural analysis, 187<br />
Power-split control by Toyota, 160<br />
Production factors, xiv<br />
Production hybrid-drive cars, 156<br />
Programmable logic controllers, 47<br />
PSA Tulip concept car, 181<br />
Public authority initiatives, xx<br />
Punt-type structures, 209<br />
Racing-car structures, 187<br />
Reaction Injection Moulding (RIM), 178<br />
Reactionary market attitudes, xviii<br />
Reinforced shall structures, 207<br />
Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM), 179<br />
Road-induced electricity, 122<br />
Rotary inertia, rolling and gradient resistance, 229<br />
Rotor and stator configuration, 65<br />
Running gear design optimization, 223<br />
Sandwich construction fro panel stability, 205<br />
Selecting EV motors, 15<br />
Self-levelling suspension, 231<br />
Semi punt structure, 162<br />
Series and parallel hybrids, 10<br />
Shear buckling, designing to avoid, 205<br />
Shear development in torsion, 202<br />
Small car electric motors, 19<br />
Sodium chloride/nickel battery, 109<br />
Sodium–sulphur batteries, 107<br />
Solar cells, 111<br />
Stabilized Core Composite (SCC), 176<br />
Steel used intelligently, 192<br />
Stiff-jointed frames, 213<br />
Stress distribution in road wheels, 243<br />
Structural package and elements, 200<br />
Substructure and element optimization, 211<br />
Supercapacitors, 113<br />
Switched reluctance motors, 18<br />
Switching strategies for motors, 75<br />
Synchronous motors with S-M magnets, 70<br />
Thermo-electric generator, 53<br />
Thin-walled’ structural analysis, 203<br />
Thyristor control, 131<br />
Total design’ factors, xiii<br />
Toyota ‘Prius’ hybrid, 156<br />
Traction and braking, 235<br />
Turbo alternator specification, 15<br />
Turbo-alternator for gas turbine, 14<br />
TXI London taxi, 41<br />
Tyre rolling resistance, 246<br />
UK EVA practice for electric CVs, 129<br />
ULSAB steel weight-reduction project, 193<br />
Ultra-lightweight construction case study, 191<br />
Vector control fundamentals, 69<br />
Vector controlled brushless DC machines, 62<br />
<strong>Vehicle</strong> dynamics and motor design, 74<br />
<strong>Vehicle</strong> handling and steering, 232<br />
<strong>Vehicle</strong> handling response, 233<br />
<strong>Vehicle</strong> performance prediction, 227<br />
<strong>Vehicle</strong> traction vs stability, 235<br />
Viable energy storage systems, 28<br />
Wankel rotary engine, 148<br />
Waste heat recovery, 50<br />
Weight reduction in metal structures, 192<br />
Wheel motors and package design, 95<br />
Wider transportation system, xviii<br />
Wound rotor synchronous motors, 72<br />
Index 253
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