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Efficient Design Of Integrated Underbody And Battery Pack For Battery Electric Vehicles, Gabriele Rosso Oct 2021

Efficient Design Of Integrated Underbody And Battery Pack For Battery Electric Vehicles, Gabriele Rosso

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Climate change and the consequent more restrictive regulations are pushing the industry towards higher efficiency and lower emissions means of transport. The road transport sector is deeply affected, leading the main Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to start the transition to alternative powertrains, among which Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are the faster-growing.

The large, heavy, and safety-critical battery pack asks for a specific optimized solution for a lightweight and high-performance vehicle platform.

In this research, a first benchmarking analysis is presented to study the current state-of-the-art for BEV underbody and battery pack designs. Following this investigation, a classification scheme was designed …