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1	Design of lightweigh electric vehicles de Fluiter, Travis January 2008 (has links) The design and manufacture of lightweight electric vehicles is becoming increasingly important with the rising cost of petrol, and the effects emissions from petrol powered vehicles are having on our environment. The University of Waikato and HybridAuto's Ultracommuter electric vehicle was designed, manufactured, and tested. The vehicle has been driven over 1800km with only a small reliability issue, indicating that the Ultracommuter was well designed and could potentially be manufactured as a solution to ongoing transportation issues. The use of titanium aluminide components in the automotive industry was researched. While it only has half the density of alloy steel, titanium aluminides have the same strength and stiffness as steel, along with good corrosion resistance, making them suitable as a lightweight replacement for steel components. Automotive applications identified that could benefit from the use of TiAl include brake callipers, brake rotors and electric motor components. EV BEV battery electric vehicle vehicle car future li-ion battery aerodynamics body suspension lightweight vehicle design lightweight virtual engineering CAE CAD CAM titanium aluminide titanium TiAl gamma Ultracommuter wheel motor motor controller aluminium chassis