Car design for urban logistic

Abstract

This paper presents a design project of an electric vehicle for the last-mile logistic delivery. It addresses two problems: one, the high air-pollution generated by mobile sources, and two, the traffic jams in Bogotá, especially those caused by motor vehicles doing logistic delivery. The design of a CFRPbodywork compact electric vehicle that does the last-mile logistic delivery with no emission of pollutant particles and no adverse effect on the city mobility is a proposed response, which would permit assessing the local capability to develop such vehicles at an industrial scale. The methodology starts with the vehicle conceptualization, followed by an exploratory stage on the product shape by generating bidimensional graphic representations of the proposals. The computer-aided design (CAD) of the vehicle proceeds based on them, and simultaneously, a modeling stage with Clay is conducted, which is the first approach of the human being to the real object; these stages feedback each other to synthesize the vehicle design and provide enough information for manufacturing.