VEHICLE DESIGN SUMMIT (VDS)

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VEHICLE DESIGN SUMMIT (VDS)

Steven Jeremy Ntambi Founding Team leader, VDS
Uganda Email ntambi.jeremy_at_gmail.com
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• Once we rid ourselves of traditional
• thinking we can get on with creating the
  future.- James Bertrand

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Presentation Outline

• Vehicle Design Summit
• Introduction
• X-Teams model
• Vehicle Design Summit 1.0
• Vehicle Design Summit 2.0
• Way forward

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Vehicle Design Summit (VDS)
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• A Global Student-led Consortium
• Demonstrated a New Paradigm Collaboration
• Sustainably Leapfrogged New Technologies
• Developed on the M.I.T X-teams Model.

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X-Teams Model

• Building teams that lead lead Innovate and
  Succeed
• Developed at M.I.T. by Prof. D. Ancona
• Examined why traditional team models failed
• Inward focus more than outward focus
• X-teams
• External outreach to stake holders
• Extensive ties
• Expandable tiers
• Extensive leadership and flexible membership

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X-Teams Model
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X-Teams Model

• X-teams Improve teams ability in
• Creative Idea Production
• Idea execution
• Innovative capacity within organizations improved
• Emphasis on distributed leadership
• Succes stories include
• Miscrosoft Net-Gen team
• Airline companies in the U.S.

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• Pulse (of the city)
• - 255 mpg energy equivalency
• - All electric drive
• 420 lb, 1 passenger
• - Projected Cost 5,000
• Impact Distributed Energy Generation

Assisted Human-Electric Hybrid - 450 mpg energy
equivalency - Human / electric drive - 525 lb, 1
passenger - Projected Cost 4,000 Impact
Vehicle for Developing Nations
SVO Biofuels Vehicle - 54 mpg energy
equivalency - SVO Single tank conversion - 1400
lb, 2 passenger - Projected Cost
13,000 Impact Polyculture agriculture.
Fuel-cell electric hybrid - 285 mpg energy
equivalency - Fuel cell, electric hybrid - 980
lb, 2 passenger - Projected Cost
20,000 Impact Biological, safe hydrogen.
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Vehicle Design Summit (VDS) 2.0
Overview

• Developed a prototype a 4-6 seater HEV NEtworked
  Vehicle in 2008-Vision 200
• Case study of India

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VDS 2.0
VDS 2.0 Objectives

• Fuel an Energy Space Race
• In the short term, develp an automobile with
  Minimal Life cycle costs- Vision 200
• Factor 20 improvement in materials and energy
  input
• Develop fully networked system with brake and
  drive by wire

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The Collaboration
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The CAN Network

•  Multiple Electrical Control Units (ECU)
• Control for Power Train and Body Electronics
• Two separate Bus Lines, the High Speed and Low
  Speed Bus connected in a linear CAN Topology.
• The Modules used CANopen-based I/O Subsystem,
  flashed into memory.

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The CAR
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The CAR
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The CAR
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Powertrain Architecture and network
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The Brake and Drive by wire configuration
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The Final Concept

• Modular Power
• Auxiliary Power Unit Run on
• hydrogen, compressed natural gas, methane
  ethanol,biodiesel
• Straight electricity

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The Final Concept

• Hybrid Architecture
• Utilization of electric motor
• Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) to maximize fuel
  efficiency and optimize vehicle performance.
• Fuel economy achieved primarily through 3
  mechanisms
• Reducing wasted energy during idle/low output
• Recapturing waste energy (e.g. regenerative
  braking)
• Reducing the size and power of the APU

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The Prototype
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The Africa(uganda)-MIT team
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Work Done by Uganda team

• Development of the entire power train and the
  Data Networking hub (Control area network) CAN
  for the prototype.
• Set up a Centre for Research in Transportation
  Technologies (CRTT)

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Way forward

• Adopting the X-teams model to leapfrog into new
  market
• Starting with conversion of existing vehicles in
  peoples current consumption
• Exploring new virgin markets such as Africa and
  setting up base there
• Industries should be located in populous
  countries such as China and Africa-cheap labour
  costs
• First models should be for public transportation

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Questions are welcome
Contact Steven Jeremy Ntambi Email
ntambi.jeremy_at_gmail.com
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• The future belongs to those who see
• possibilities before they become obvious.- John
  Scully

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