Case Gm Autonomy

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Case Study Agile Auto Architecture GM's Autonomy and the i-Solo/Duo rick.dove@stevens.edu, attributed copies permitted 1 AUTOnomy is the “Reinvention of the Automobile” and is the first vehicle to be designed from the ground up around a fuel cell propulsion system and combining drive-by-wire control technology and electric wheel hub motors. The GM AUTOnomy is a powerful vision of what the future of auto-mobility may become and as such offers an endless variety of all-wheel-drive vehicles built from a limited number of common “skateboard” chassis with unlimited plug-andplay body styles. The skateboards include all of the essential systems: a fuel cell stack, an electronic network, electric drive motors, and an on-board hydrogen storage system. The result is a vision of a future based on hydrogen fuel, a future where the only emission from the tailpipe is water. rick.dove@stevens.edu, attributed copies permitted 2 rick.dove@stevens.edu, attributed copies permitted 3 With AUTOnomy, an almost endless variety of affordable, all-wheel-drive vehicles could be built from a limited number of common chassis - possibly as few as two or three - emitting only water from the tailpipe and using renewable energy. rick.dove@stevens.edu, attributed copies permitted 4 rick.dove@stevens.edu, attributed copies permitted 5 rick.dove@stevens.edu, attributed copies permitted 6 POWER: Fuel Cells combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, with water and heat as the only by-products. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. CONTROL: Drive-by-wire allows steering, braking, and other vehicle systems to be controlled by electrical signals rather than mechanical joints and linkages. SKATEBOARD: A six-inch thick chassis with the entire propulsion system housed within; wheel hub motors at the wheels enable

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