SOME ANALYSIS OF GYROIDAL EFFECT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FLYWHEEL POWERED VEHICLE

Feasibility studies have shown that a flywheel powered vehicle will increase fuel economy under the city driving. So, some designs of a drive train system which has high efficiency and can regenerate braking energy by a flywheel storage unit have been contrived. But the most interesting subject to take up first in a developing flywheel powered vehicle is the analysis of the gyroidal effect affecting the vehicle's motions and durability of equipment.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the SAE Passenger Car Meeting, Dearborn, Michigan, 9-13 June 1980.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Otaki, H
• Publication Date: 1980-6

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 18 p.
• Serial:
  • Society of Automotive Engineers Preprint
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Economic efficiency; Electric power transmission; Energy storage systems; Feasibility analysis; Flywheels; Fuel conservation; Fuel consumption; Motor vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Old TRIS Terms: Flywheel powered vehicles; Power systems
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00331781
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 800835, HS-030 875
• Files: HSL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 9 1983 12:00AM