UELVE MBC

UELVEs MBC

Acronym decoding:

• UELVEs: Ultra-Efficient Libre Electric Vehicles for everyone.
• MBC: the Embassy, or the "MythBusters Car" (get it?), in honour of their discovery that a golf-ball texture on a car bodypanels significantly improves fuel economy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUiGhyHC-1A

Specifications

• 100kg weight
• 2 occupants
• Twin 3-5kW Axial Flux BLDC chain-driven motors (no gearbox needed)
• 1.1 x 1.5 x 3.4 metre dimensions with an "airbox" down the centre
• Only a 1.1 m^2 front surface area (due to the "air tunnel")
• 0-60mph in under four seconds (Sur-Ron "3" kW Motors can be pushed to 13kW for short durations, and there's two of them)

Design Concept

• Use downhill mountain-bike parts that have been proven to be light, strong and effective up to a 50kg weight with an 80kg load, thanks to the Sur-Ron Electric Bike.
• Use twin Sur-Ron direct-drive 3-5kW Axial Flux electric motors
• Use twin ASI BAC4000 BLDC Controllers (or VESC Vedder BLDC Controllers)
• Outer skin using the GABoats technique (Geodesic Aerolite Boats) - http://gaboats.com
• Inner frame using 3D-printed fibre-reinforced "nodes" connecting continuous-fibre-reinforced pipes on a Fibre_Reinforced_Pipe_3D_Printer or getting carbon-fibre or hemp-reinforced tubes, based on the Divergent 3D "Blade" car manufacturing concept https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPv7PwS50OE
• Swappable Modular batteries using the Open_Source_Battery_Pack

Concept

Source Code

• git clone http://lkcl.net/vehicle_3d/.git

TODO

this page.

See Also

• Two Wheeled Velomobile
• Velomobile