| Abstract |
Global legislation about CO2 and non-CO2 polluting emissions is getting stricter and stricter leadingOriginal Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to propose new powertrain topologies in order to fulfil newregulations avoiding therefore possible fees. Nevertheless, local legislation regulating accesses forpolluting vehicles to particularly congested areas, once limited to big cities centres, are now extendedalso to towns creating further obstacles people movement and to goods delivery.Powertrains electrification is playing a major role in the clean power solution scenario because of thewide efficiency improvement capabilities and scalability of components behaviours towards drivelinearchitectures despite the technology assessment shows some weakness: even if motors, inverters andelectric control devices have borrowed main characteristics to adjacent industrial and railway fields,they shall improve to implement automotive peculiar features at achievable prices. Nevertheless, cellsare the weakest components because chemistry technology of the accumulator: even if cells ensure agood performance ration in terms of energy density, recharge time is still too long and energydistribution infrastructure is blossoming nowadays creating the so called 'range anxiety' on potentialcustomers.Present paper proposes an outlook on efficient Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) for L7e category(named EPIC0) aimed to commercial use in particular for good delivery in cities restricted areas orinside industrial plants. |
