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Patent 2253379 - electric vehicle instant refueling system by exchanging battery cartridges

 

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On the 26th day of April 1995 the Patent Office finally granted an amended specification for Nelson's electric vehicle cartridge refueling system.  From the first point of filing in November of 1990 it had taken 5 years and 5 months to achieve a certificate.  This system was the backbone of the racing vehicle design conceived in 1990 which design developed through several scale models to become a physical reality on display at Beaulieu in 1993.

 

See the development build stage links below:

 

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DESIGN EVOLUTION

 

From the original (historic first) battery cartridge system of the 1990s, the latest cartridge refueling systems have come a long way. The original system illustrated above was suitable for cars which had the height to incorporate a tall loading servo, such as the BE1. This was replaced with a flat-pack electric motor servo for a rover-metro conversion demonstrator (chassis still available for research partners information).

For the future, it is necessary to standardize battery cartridges for compatibility, or other vehicles may not share system components.  BE1, BE2 and BE3 are capable of utilizing the same cartridge pictured above.  This cartridge may be configured for many different voltages and storage medium.  BE1 was designed to use lead-acid batteries to keep costs down.  The total development cost of the BE1 was in the region of £39,000, including a dedicated charger.  A small price to pay for a world record contender that reached 90 mph using just 20kW motors - slightly strained, and eventually made it to 160mph with more power!

 

During the development of the BE2 the design bounced from Lead-Acid to Nickel-Cadmium, then quickly to Nickel-Metal-Hydride. The move to NiMh still meant that the car needed a bigger cartridge to supply the increasingly more powerful motors, and this is seen in the BE2 design drawings from 1996/7 below.

 

  BE1 battery cartridge exchange system for land speed record cars 

The BE1 EV battery cartridge exchange system: end view showing

one NiCd battery cartridge and one load servo directly above.

 

 BE2 battery cartridge refueling system, load servos and cartridges

The BE2 was designed for NiCd and NiMh batteries, so needed a large volume

to store sufficient power, compared to Lithium, which also increased the frontal area of the 

car - compared to the BE3 below - which is a much more compact design. 

Note also, the offset tracks of the BE2 above.

 

 

 

The BE3 racing car can refuel in around 2 minutes by expelling one battery cartridge

and replacing it with another. It does not need a complicated service station to

do this. It does it with built-in load servos - so that is can turn around on the 

Salt Flats at Bonneville, completely recharged ready for the best of three runs.

Don't you wish your EV could do that? It does not use the servo cartridge loading

system seen in either the BE1 or BE2 designs. Formula E racing would be much faster

using battery cartridge exchange during pit stops.

 

 

 

The new Lithium Polymer cells and the fall in price have changed the game. The same volume cartridge will now propel the BE3 seen below at speeds of 350+mph, so that the $ per mph ratio will improve significantly.  By way of example, many solar powered electric cars use Worley Polymer cells now offering (190Wh/kg).

 

The Ecostar team are looking for corporate sponsors and collaborative research partners.  If your company or academic organisation would like work with our group on the BE3 project, the new management team would like to hear from you.

 

 

 

Left to right: BE1, BE2 and the latest BE3 world electric land speed record cars.

Note the increase in frontal area for the BE2 to accommodate a larger battery cartridge. Compared to BE1 and BE2, the BE3 has a smaller frontal area. The BE1 had wheels and suspension outside of the bodywork - which is not shown in the diagram here. 

 

 

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