Electric RaceAbout Succes Story

Electric RaceAbout Succes Story
World’s best Students Built Electric Car
Shanghai World EXPO 2010
14.10.2010
October 14, 2010
Risto Salminen
Director, Industrial Engineering
Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
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CONTENTS
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Electric RaceAbout Story briefly
Design and Project Principles
Technical Solutions
Progressive Automotive X Prize competition 2010
Key Elements for Success
Next Steps
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Electric RaceAbout Story
RaceAbout 2000
  Project started at the end of year 2007
  Team of 15 engineering students and 2 faculty
members wants to design and build world’s best
electrical car
  ERA was on the road at March 2010
  Team won the 2nd position at Progressive Insurance
Automotive X PRIZE competition in USA
  ERA was the world's best university car
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Design and Project Principles
  ERA is a solution for joining driving passion and
environmental responsibility
  Gasoline equivalent
energy
consumption
over
140consumption
miles per
“A full-bloodied
sportscar
with
extremely
low
energy
gallon (less than 1,7 litres gasoline per 100 km)
and no emissions will really open a new era for those enthusiasts,
  Max speed 200 km/h, acceleration 0 – 100 km/h in 6 sec
feeling guilty because of their passion for motoring”
 “However,
Solid links
from
research
towait
product,
fromenergy
design
to
there
is no
reason to
for better
storage
operation,
fromelectric
learning
to action has to be taken on the
systems,
the new
car architecture
CAD screen now, not tomorrow.”
ERAco-operation
network has raised
the profile of Finnish expertise in
 “The
Close
with industry
electric vehicles and strengthen the groundwork for an electric
vehicle industry in Finland.
  Engineering solutions were guided by Business Plan of 300
cars/year
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Technical Keys for Success
4WD, each wheel has
own
motor
Litium
Titanite,
kWh
Light
carbon
fibre32body
- direct driven,
Voltage
240 – 415 V
no strength
reduction
gearsubWeight
550 kgsteel
High
frame
Brushless
Range 160permanent
– 200 km
magnet motors,
custom
Suspension
with double
designed
Max 320 kW,
200 kW
wishbones
andcont
adjustable
- total torque 1000 Nm
coil-overs
cont,
3200 (10
Nm min/250
peak
Fast
charge
kW)
- high efficiency
Designed
for small
Advanced
Battery
series
production
Advanced
stability
Management
System:
control
- each
cell monitored
Total
weight
1700 kg
-- vector
logic
systembased
balanced
- individual motor
control
- includes motor
thermal management
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Key elements for success
  Wide knowledge of different technical areas as a base for
innovations
  Team members shared high level vision to build world’s
best electric car
  The desire of the project team is to contribute to the
progress towards environmentally sustaining individual
mobility.
  Good networking with academic world and industry
  Freedom for new ways of learning in engineering studies
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Next steps
  Decision of starting production or not
  2nd phase of design, optimising for production
  Price target under $200.000
  Continuing component and system development with
Finnish industry
  Batteries and their management systems
  Direct-drive electrical motors for a product family
  Possible applications for heavy and special vehicles
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