Analysis On The Electric Car

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successes including the first vehicle to achieve a speed of over 62mph (100kmh) in the all electric La Jamais Contente in 1899 by the Belgian Camille Jenatzy. However, overriding factors still familiar today meant that fossil-fuel won the overall battle for adoption, with thanks to their being more convenient to refuel and thanks to the likes of Henry Ford who mass produced the Ford Model T; thus lowering the overall purchase price for petrol engined cars.

Though there have been several attempts over the last 100 years to revive the initial successes enjoyed by electric cars in the 1890's and early 20th century, they have mostly been one offs, concept cars and individual engineering projects.

In recent years, the ever expanding field of electronics has played an important role in the development of the story. The advent of purely electronic devices, rather than mechanical, has meant we're more accepting of machines with no moving parts and only powered by electricity. ...

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Therefore, from 0 to 25 mph, the vehicle needs to generate enough torque to create a forward thrust at least one-quarter of the gross vehicle weight. In addition is a minimum acceleration of 1.1 mph/sec that needs a force equal to 5% of the vehicle's weight. This is a short term or intermittent requirement and should not last more then 5 minutes. The other option is to use gears to get the needed torque for going up a hill and/or accelerating. Vehicles must have the ability to accelerate up the grades given to safely drive in traffic.

Therefore we will start with a vehicle with a total gross weight of 3000 lb (including passengers & load), with tires with a rolling resistance of 1% ...

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