El SMART-o

All mechanical engineering students in Linköping take a project course the last year, and I'm taking mine right now. We're divided into projects depending on what area you want to specialize in. My specialization is product development (produktutveckling) and we are making a EV (electrical vehicle, elbil) out of a Smart Car. This is easier said than done... We want to keep the combustion engine in the rear of the car and put two relatively small electrical engines in the front. In that way we wont need a differential gear. To just weld fittings and make room by expanding the car is relatively easy, but our professor wants us to try to keep the car as small as it is..

A scetch of the front of the car (the body (kaross) is removed). From this we made a CAD model from which we could draw some conclusions and see which ideas were feasible.