1. Electric Vehicle Team
Prepared by: Abraham Ng’hwani, Anny Ning, Charlie Kritzmacher, Evan Savell, Henry Miller, Kate Abendroth & Max Feidelson.

2. Executive Summary Introduction to the Problem
Goal: Market-competitive electric vehicle that may be used for urban transportation purposes.
Technical Design: Chassis from carbon fiber monocoque
Environmental Analysis: Life Cycle Analysis on mass-produced vehicle
Business Plan: Introduction of Electric Vehicle Car sharing service; eventual autonomous fleet
Introduction
The global challenge: to face a rapidly increasing demand for energy while reducing CO2 emissions
Transportation is both critical and costly
Our approach: construct a plan to design, build, market, and sell a hyper-efficient electric vehicle
Unique design: Use of composite materials and ergonomic design to maximize functionality and efficiency
Business plan to strategically scale up our vehicle to a full city fleet
The Bass Connections Urban Concept project aims to deliver a market-competitive electric vehicle that may be used for urban transportation purposes. Once it’s mass produced, eventually the vehicle will be adopted into a fleet of ride-sharing business models in potential cities.
The urban concept vehicle chassis will be made from a carbon fiber monocoque, which is by far the most durable, lightweight and easily made into even the most subtle shapes. Besides the clear advantages of using a motor instead of an engine, other technical design tests and FEA data are used to justify the selection of the carbon fiber monocoque and other materials.
Along the aspired implementation of this business model, studies of the social and environmental impacts of mass-producing this vehicle, along with future prospects of making it autonomous, are thoroughly weighed in.

3. Technical Design - Suspension
Prototype
Machined + off-the-shelf parts
8020 jig frame
Testing Data
Acceleration
Compressed gas shock pressure
-> Forces
-> Damping
FEA -> Maximum stress in suspension
-> FOS under various driving conditions
Wind Tunnel Testing
Ergonomics and Functionality
Scalability <-- (???)
Vehicle Dynamics - Suspension
Material Selection
Future Goals

4. Technical Design - Material Selection
Test samples
Force (+ breaking strength)
Displacement
-> Young’s Modulus
-> Yield strength
FEA -> Maximum stress in car body (simplified, uniform material)
Calculations
Verify mathematical model
Actual maximum stress in composite material
-> FOS under various driving conditions
Young's Modulus Averages, in psi
E = (FL^3)/(4δbs^3)
2x0.25",
1+2-layer CF
2-layer CF
3-layer CF
1x0.5",

5. LCA - Results
ONLY MENTION PDF AND DALY Functional unit: one highway capable car w/ infrastructure needed to produce fleet => some of these effects could be spread across cars
Water (water use)
Resources (energy used to extract the resources needed)
Ecosystem Quality (potentially disappeared fraction of species in one meter squared of earth in a year)
Human Health (disability-adjusted life years) => 1.5 weeks of life lost over the entire population
Global Warming

6. LCA - Results
EMPHASIZE CARBON FIBRE IS LARGEST COMPONENT MATERIAL

7. LCA - Assumptions Polyester resin for NOMEX
No manufacturing equipment for carbon fibre
Disposal and Recycling
NOMEX
Polyester resin

8. Business Plan -- Car Sharing Program
Introduction as EV Car Sharing service; convert to autonomous fleet
Competitive Advantage
Car sharing/autonomous vehicle markets
Project Scope

9. Business Plan -- Pilot City
Attractiveness of Austin, Texas Market
Growing population (11% over last 5 years)
Ridership across the Capital Metro System has remained flat from 2011 to 2014
Main Competition: Car2Go; 300 cars and 54,000 users in Austin
high percentage of young and carless commuters
Source:

10. Business Plan -- 5yr Price Plan and Operating Costs
Penetration pricing
Infrastructure, “one way parking and re-balancers”
Potential future sales
Penetration pricing
Undercut Car2Go’s consumer prices in first two years to attract customers
10% less than Car2Go, 5% second year, third year even, increase over the prices of Car2Go after that, but per hour max and per day max stay the same
Operate on losses in first couple years and increase prices gradually after we have a larger market share of car share users
Cost estimates
Car estimated at about $25,000
Labor for maintenance
Infrastructure
Parking spaces and large garage to house and charge vehicles
Solar panels -- plan to have facility be fully solar-powered to reduce costs
Rebalancers to help move cars from areas of low need to areas of high need
Also to bring cars with low battery back to the warehouse
One way to help decrease this portion is to encourage users to rebalance for us with inverse surge pricing or points towards free rides for bringing cars to areas of high demand and/or the charging station
This becomes free once we convert and modernize the fleet to autonomous technology
Labor and factory costs
Potential future sales
If it’s wildly successful then we would scale up the car to be available for sale to individual consumers

11. Conclusion
The Bass Connections Urban Concept Vehicle is much needed because:
More efficient use of energy for transportation; cleaner energy
Adapting to new technologies i.e. autonomous cars
Technical considerations are in place
Environmental considerations are in place
Business prospects

12. Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Dr. Klein and Dr. Knight for their support and mentorship throughout the year. Without their guidance, this project would not have been possible. We would also like to acknowledge the help of Carter Reeb of Quantis Suites for helping us acquire LCA software and Dr. Ashby of the Chemistry Department was a great help with the LCA as well.