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EV DESIGN COMPUTER PROGRAM
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Someone on the EV(Electric 'vehicle) list writes
I am now in the component selection phase of
design of an ev.
Does anyone have, or know of a computer program
for ev design? For
example:
Inputs
Vehicle weight (stripped of ICE
components)
Vehicle type
Pickup, mid-engine, rear engine,
coupe, sta wagon, etc.
Desired range
Desired top speed
Terrain
for daily driving\
uphill mileage, % grade
Options
6 volt or
12-volt?
Single string of batteries or 2
parallel?
Original tire size
Outputs
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Suggested total battery capacity
Suggested individual battery capacity
Suggested motor size
Estimated battery weight
Estimated total weight
Regen recommended?
Power brakes recommended?
Suggested tires, inflation
A program or programs that do only a portion of
the above would be of
interest.
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The Lowest Common Denominator way to retrofit transportation is to build motors into the rims and switch wheels on existing vehicles. A fuel cell or Stirling Electric hybrid with batteries for regen is the propulsion for new or retrofit.
Plug in Hydrogen needs attention. Electrolysis or PEM reverse fuel cell to make Hydrogen from the exhaust water from the last trip. The batteries are precious metal compromised... Hydrogen just reverses the charges and produces a lower foot print solution to plugins...
Rent a battery is just around the corner… http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/4/204724/805
EV Design Program - The ultimate vehicle
This is the question the world has been waiting
for _ Organizing
the beat way to do something.
If we ask the question what is the "best
way" to do something?
Only when we set the parameters around
that pretext does the logical
exercise unfold. --Citizen Raleigh
In the late
seventies we did some lectures in Los Angeles California
on the
criteria for the ultimate vehicle. It was the results of our RA
ENERGY FDN. deliberations on transportation.
Our program started
with the chassis and suspension design for a small
passenger car
light truck combo. A quarter to half inch wall
square
tube(preferably titanium) aprox. a foot square running the length of
the vehicle from which the suspension arms extended(like the legs
of an
alligator) to the wheels which contain the drive motors.
The suspension
arms, A frames or what ever are belcranked to air
bags which provide the
lightest form of spring mechanism and
allows variable load characteristics
that no other suspension can
for the weight. This simple strategy will allow
one world standard
chassis for cars and trucks up to two tons or so with
standard
components thus creating the opportunity for the separate parts to
be made by thousands of small entrepreneurs world wide.
The lightweight
eggshell composite car body you can speculate on ie. gullwing
doors
to open like a boat, IC(Induction coupling) activated cloth draped
over
your own sculpture etc..
The body takes no torque and is
suspended on or around the super light
weight square tube which
takes the torque and contains the go go goodies.
A truck can look
the same as they always
have except that they steer by
articulation ie. bend like an earth mover
instead of turning the
wheels at the end of an axle. Based on Clone of Earth KISStech ie.
the spine of the alligator takes the
tweak and the muscle-tendon
systems give you the belcranks etc.
the rest is ?. The rear wheel
of some racing bikes have a similar
belcrank suspension system.
The ultimate
steering system is center pivot with essentially one
moving part
which eliminates the multiple bushings, bearings, drag links, tie
rods, along with their maintenance and alignment problems. Power
assist
comes from increasing the rpm of the outboard wheel motor
and decreasing
the inboard with the electronic switcher controller
for differential control.
The optical control monitoring coupled
to field switching corrects in nanoseconds.
The same system found in wheel balancing programs and ABS brakes, can keep
the wheels balanced at every revolution.
In those days we were talking batteries and a pony generator
hybrid
and a fuel cell wanabe. It is obvious now with the ceramic
fuel cells and PEM
fuel cells that the
way to go is a-Hydrogen fuel cell or
Stirling free piston
with a helically wound titanium
ambient temperature pressure
Hydrogen tank _
Nanotubes on the way. This tank as well as
the ceramic fuel
cell went to the moon and back while you watched on television
ie.
your tax dollars at work and part of the Mike Mulligan's space
shuttle in the basement, the living-space program.
A cottage industry can evolve around these make a hybrid from your own vehicle technologies.
With a Stirling gen set we can use any fuel allowing vehicles to be converted right away.
Electric motors are more efficient and will raise the mileage of whatever fuel, battery, fuel cell is is used.
Students build hydrogen vehicle... http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/students-build-hydrogen-vehicle-that-gets-1336-mpg/
Electric shocks can generate electricity as the vehicle move… http://www.autobloggreen.com/category/emerging-technologies/
Fueling and
charging is by Natural gas-Hydrogen (H85
Town gas) or
plug it in and electrolyze the water saved from
the last trip and
pressurize the tank. In other words each
vehicle has it's own
hydrogen generator that can turn it's
exhaust water back into
Hydrogen by plugging it in like you would
any electric vehicle
to charge the batteries.
The Stirling generator does not need a reformer
when using the dirty Hydrogen and town Gas, heat from a wood stove, or Solar heat.
The units can multitask as generators refrigeration units and mechanical power.
The motor in the
wheels is a way of you tinkers starting the
greatest innovation
in transportation since the water buffalo.
Again the best way to
do it synergy (as well as a
new cottage industry )is to design
the rim, airless tire, and
motor as a bolt on unit. The rim and
tire is one half which bolts
to the hub and the backing plate
gets the other half ie. the
brakes are regen. This retrofits and
serves as the standard for
new vehicles ie. all the trains run on
the same world standard.
When we decide that we can create
transportation for ourselves
and not just for profit, we should
decide on a world standard
and everybody manufactures the same
components. It will
work like the concrete block ie. same block
dimensions
everywhere.
Latest wheel motor from Australia. Earth movers (Latourneau) ,
Mining equipment and locomotives(most makes) are the proving
ground for the motor in the wheel . The Japanese already
have the motor in the wheel combination car prototype and
working on the controllers but it is battery driven.
Motor in the wheel file… http://raenergy.igc.org/whmotfl.html
The Billings group have a plug in concept of charge the fuel cell car
(electrolysis of the exhaust water to create Hydrogen) but
a conventional
electric conversion motor through
the drive train. The Hum-vee
and some race cars are close on
the suspension but aren't
striving for the one vehicle does all
variable load
characteristics of airbags. So what is wrong with
this movie.
We need to get out
of the horse and buggy little boxes and
"graduate".
Synergistics my man synergistics it's right up there with
aggregates
and plastic youknowwhatimeanvern. Let bottom's gang
do it ie. tinkers tailors etc. and you.
So if we put that in
our Funk and Wagnals or
computer simulation or what ever, we
would be writing the book on
four wheel drive literally. And Don
would have the twenty first century
transport bible and some
share ware for kickstarting a dead planet..
NOTE: Since this was presented to the EV list,
Renault of France
has come out with a hybrid wheel motor pony
generator unit. But the real
market is the retrofit of the
existing transportation fleet. Why not get the
world standard and
cottage industry exercise going for this billions of
unit market.
Fuel cells, tanks, and wheel motors to be ordered and
installed
by the user rather than allow another general motors style
frankencorp to evolve around the electric car.
In other words why not produce what you can and
offer it on the
net. By simplifying and eliminating three
thousand moving parts we have a
shot at it. Eventually people can
get the car as a kit with the
components made by small
entrepreneurs like you etc. and assemble it
themselves or get
some high school kids to do it etc. Remember it was
Renault that
started this idea with the 2 CV and we called it the ugly duck
which
made it a million seller.
Electric aheel is big as in tunnel boring machines etc. http://raenergy.igc.org/frtunnelsetup.html
EARTH
MOVER ELECTRIC MOTOR IN THE WHEEL gif from
'Moving the Earth'
a text book on excavation. I put the scan here simply
to show how
the dirt and moisture as well as regen and disc brakes was
done
over sixty years ago.
A simpler cottage industry version without the
planetary gear
reductions would be built into the rim to convert
existing vehicles.
Picture a ceiling fan motor with a ten to
twenty inch diameter with
two to three sets of windings to create
high torque as well as speed.
Then switch the fields and vary the
currant for differential action,
variable regen braking, power
steering and continuous wheel balancing.
A cottage industry version is two
discs
facing each other holding bobbins wound with lacquered wire ie.
yes
wound on sewing machines. The concentric rows of one inch
by two
to three inches deep square bobbins with slightly concave
convex
sides pressed into them and epoxied are offset so they will
fit
between each other at close tolerance. This creates the switched
and
variable fields and armature segments.
The photo diode reads the frequency of the
passing fields(bobbins) in
relation to the strobe
frequency(accelerator pedal-button) which represents the
desired
speed. The controller feeds the appropriate juice to the
proper
concentric rows and portions of the field or armature for
continuous
wheel balance and RPM (traction control). ie. matching the strobe
frequency with the passing fields works like a modulating
governor.
The data sensitive switching
can be at the
end of each field or segment, induction pickup and frequency
sensitive for fly by wireless. The strobe and diode reader is
from a wheel
balancing machine, the torque and rpm control
circuit is from a VCR,
the frequency sensitive induction pickup
is history(The museum of
ancient machinery :) .
Please email me at ramyers@igc.org
Rent a battery is just around the corner… http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/4/204724/805
Talking points on batteries… http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-24,GGLG:en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=Electric+Car+Batteries&spell=1
