In the blizzard of driveline technologies that global vehicle manufacturers have or are about to launch, there is a very simple truth for the collision repair business: Above the smallest sized vehicles, more and more will have some sort of drive assistance from an electric system. The engineering is subtly different when using two sources ...
In the blizzard of driveline technologies that global vehicle manufacturers have or are about to launch, there is a very simple truth for the collision repair business: Above the smallest sized vehicles, more and more will have some sort of drive assistance from an electric system. The engineering is subtly different when using two sources ...
The bigger the vehicle, the greater the number of additional systems added (heating / cooling of the interior, lighting, active safety systems), the greater the required energy storage. Hence a Tesla Model S (a pure EV) could be powered by a 40 kWh pack, but with existing Li-Ion battery technology / charger systems, becomes a ...
What about hydrogen? Fuel cell powered vehicles (generating electricity without combustion) will finally move from a lease only fleet experiment to mainstream by 2020, but does require a re-think of the fuel strategy to finally gain traction in the mass market by 2030. Fuel cell technology relies on pure hydrogen to re-form with oxygen drawn ...
How does this affect repairers? Most of the electric driveline will have its own cooling system to enable more performance to be extracted from a given size / weight of sub-assemblies. That means new additional sub-systems. The drive motor, power controller and voltage stabilizer systems all require cooling. First generation systems relied on air, but ...
