Green Automotive Company’s Subsidiary Liberty Electric Cars Completes the Prototype of the Next Generation of Electric Deli...
May 28 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The first driving prototype of “DELIVER”
will be unveiled at FISITA 2014
Green Automotive Company (OTCQB: GACR) announces that its
European based subsidiary, Liberty Electric Cars, has successfully
completed the build of the first fully functioning example of
“DELIVER” - an electric delivery vehicle funded by the European
Commissions’ 7th Framework Programme which brings together ten
partner companies from across Europe. DELIVER will have its world
Premiere at FISITA World Automotive Congress, which starts on 2nd
June 2014 in Maastricht (NL).
The DELIVER project started in November 2011 with the goal to
reduce the environmental impact in urban areas by 40 % and thus
design and construct an electric light commercial vehicle which
perfectly combines the needs of inner city traffic with the
advantages of electric vehicles.
The result is a light weight commercial vehicle of 2,200 kg GVW
and a payload of 700 kg, with a host of innovative features for the
delivery driver and 18% additional capacity when compared with
today’s vans of a similar wheelbase. The concept deploys the latest
electric vehicle technologies with its fully electric drive train
featuring in-wheel motors with 2-speed transmission and 80
prismatic Li-NMC cells in its battery pack to increase energy
efficiency and total range. The vehicle perfectly meets the demands
of today’s busy delivery drivers. Thanks to its flexible ergonomic
cabin concept and removal of the B pillar on the kerb side, there
is a decrease in both workload and the duration of the delivery
process itself. The ability for the driver to easily exit the
vehicle on the kerb side not only minimises walking distances
around the vehicle, but improves driver safety. The “Walk in door”
concept reduces potential obstacles caused by the door sills. With
a minimum range of 100 km and a top speed of 100 km/h, DELIVER
represents an attractive proposition for light commercial vehicles
with urban and intra urban applications such as postal, parcel,
supermarket and city council service operations.
After executing a broad conceptual design study which started by
establishing initial design specifications and continued right
through to the detailed virtual performance assessment of the final
fully electric vehicle concept, a driving demonstrator concept
vehicle was built by Liberty Electric Cars to demonstrate as many
of the new vehicle innovations as possible. Liberty Electric Cars,
chosen to participate because of its extensive experience in
electric commercial vehicle engineering, were nominated Chief
Engineers of the design of the vehicle and played a key role in the
development of the battery, the battery management system and the
integration of all the vehicle electrical systems in the
development of this vehicle.
An extended testing phase on the test tracks at the Aldenhoven
Testing Center, RWTH Aachen University’s new testing ground,
enabled the project partners to analyse performance indicators such
as energy efficiency, dynamic & static structural performance,
active & passive safety, ergonomics or range.
The project, which is co-funded by the European Commission as
part of the European Green Vehicles Initiative, is coordinated by
Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) of RWTH Aachen
University and gathers ten partners from across Europe, including
major OEMs, research partners and cities’ representatives. The
consortium comprises Fiat (IT), Volkswagen (DE), Liberty Electric
Cars (UK), Michelin (CH), Polis Network (BE), SP – Technical
Research Institute of Sweden (SE), HPL Prototypes (UK) as well as
CADEM (TR) und Mobit (TR).
About Green Automotive Company
visit www.thegreenautomotivecompany.com.
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