ELECTRIC CAR FRAME

THE FRAME OF FAME

The frame of the electric car is purposely designed to optimise speed and save power. Thus, they are built with altra-lightweight materials that are really tough. This frame provides the needed support and reduces drag, allowing the car to reach amazing speeds on its electrically powered motors. many designers has come up with various methods for design and has since flooded the market with different design concepts. We will focus on the frame, more specially, the suspension and floor of the electric car. The entire chassis is an amazing piece that translates into the results we have been seeing in recent times. It is truly unique. More so, the structural design of Automobiles determines the overall content and interior, based on space. With lesser weight and additional space, the electric car opens a new window of designs. Basically, it provides for less complexity in terms of organising.

Furthermore, while many decided to stay with more traditional concepts, known manufacturing and design technologies are often taken to its limits by combining the unibody structure with hydroforming and maximum use of structural adhesives, as well as laser welding, tailor-welded steel blanks, and roll forming. The process is computer interactive all along, optimizing sections, improving joints and using different steel qualities and material thicknesses at appropriate points in the design to create the optimum structure. A number of parts that would traditionally be created by sheet metal stampings can be replaced by one-piece hydro formed tubes. This required tight control during design of section perimeters and transitions and some unique joint designs.

stly, the key design material is aluminium. One may start wondering how an aluminium sheet that is so thin provides such tough support. This toughness is achieved through precision achieved by applying computing to construction. Machines are used for in cutting and forming while laser welding is mostly used to hold piece together. The main raw material for primary aluminium production is bauxite. Aluminium oxide is extracted from the bauxite, and is used in an electrolytic reduction process to produce primary aluminium. It takes roughly 4 – 7 tons of bauxite to produce 2 tons of alumina, which again yield 1 ton of aluminium. Primary aluminium is alloyed with other metals and is then fabricated into a range of products through casting, extrusion and rolling. In addition, it is far cheaper and lighter compared to some other metals.

In all, it all makes sense knowing how transformative this is and how it could help in reducing cost of production. Most students have used many alternatives, applying their techniques and concepts in the design and development of e-cars at their level.

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