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Index

Disc materials/design evaluation, 386–7 engine and dynamometer characteristics, matching,
Displacement method, 601 31–3
Display devices, 794–5 engine starting and cranking, 33–4
Distributorless ignition system (DIS), 89, 90 rotational speed, 26
Double-hump sheet metal disc-type wheel, 303
‘Double offset’, 109
Earth-centered, Earth-fixed (ECEF) Cartesian coordinate
Double wishbone suspensions, 208–10, 237, 278–80
Downconverter, 428–9 system, 423
EC Council directive 75/443, 298
Drag force, 664–5
EC directive 92/23/EC, 285
Drag reduction, 665–7 EC noise homologation, 740–1
‘Drive-by-wire’ system, 166
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Regulation, 365
Driveability, 131 Ecostar, 165–7
Driven front axles, 237–8 Eddy-current dynamometers, 29–30
Driven rear axles, 226–7 EEC Braking Directive, 376
Driver behaviour, 387–8, 505 EEC Council Directive 71/320/EEC, 372
body slip angle control, 512, 513, 514 EEC Directives, 365
path following controller model, 509–12 Electric batteries:
steering controllers, 506–9 advanced lead–acid, 143–4
two-loop driver model, 513, 514 flywheel energy storage, 151
Driver reaction time, 367 lithium–ion batteries, 149
Drivetrain drag, 370 nickel–metal hydride alkaline battery, 146
Drum brakes, 363–4 sodium chloride/nickel, 146–8
Dry gap machines, 30 sodium–sulphur battery, 145–6
Dry roads, 309, 313–14, 319 solar cells, 148–9
super capacitors, 149–51
Du Pont laminar barrier technology, 61
‘Dual control’, 509 Electric power assisted steering, 585
Electric vehicle (EV) design packages, 143
Dual hybrid system, 185, 186
battery car conversion technology, 151
Dual joint, 209 conversion case study, 151–3
Dummies, 575–6
motor control alternatives, 153–4
Dyna Panhard, 596
contemporary electric car technology, 157
Dynamic braking, 100 AC drives, 159–61
Dynamic constraints, 457, 459 General Motors ‘EVl’, 158–9
‘Dynamic Index’, 477 Honda EV, 157–8
Dynamic magnifier, 44 Lithium-ion battery power, 161
Dynamic traffic routing, 435 development history, 155–7
Dynamometer: electric batteries:
choice, 27, 34–5 advanced lead–acid, 143–4
classification, 27–30 flywheel energy storage, 151
hybrid and tandem dynamometers, 30–1 lithium–ion batteries, 149
operating quadrants, 31 nickel–metal hydride alkaline battery, 146
coupling engine to, 35 sodium chloride/nickel, 146–8
background reading, 36 sodium–sulphur battery, 145–6
conventional ‘cardan shaft’, 42 solar cells, 148–9
coupling shafts, design of, 40–1 super capacitors, 149–51
damping, 42–4 electric van and truck design:
drive shaft design, 44–8 Bradshaw envirovan, 167–8
elastomeric element couplings, 42 Ford ecostar, 165–7
engine to dynamometer coupling, 48 Ford EXT, 11, 162–4
flywheels, 48–9 Goods van to fleet car conversion, 162
multiple membrane couplings, 42 thyristor control, 165
notation, 49–50 UK EVA practice for CVS, 164
problem, 36 fuel-cell powered vehicles:
Quill shaft with integral flanges and rigid couplings, 42 Ford P2000, 170
Quill shaft with toothed/gear type couplings, 42 General Motors Zafira projects, 168–70
shaft whirl, 41–2 liquid hydrogen/fuel reformation, 170, 171
stress concentrations, keyways and keyless hub prototype fuel-cell car, 170–1
connection, 41 Electrical motor-based dynamometers, 28–30
torsional oscillations and critical speeds, 36–40 Electrical power steering systems, 268–70

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