History and future of car design- an inspirational approach -

Joost KuckartzFormosun Advanced Power Research

National Taiwan UniversityDecember 2007

Overview

• How to design?

• Designs in community / student projects

• Designs in company projects

• Comparison

How to design?

• What does the customer want?– You’re designing a car for the world, not for

you personal

• What do you want to achieve?– Set the goals of the project

• How are you going to do that?– Set specifications: propulsion, performance,

vision

How to design?

• What does the customer want?– Looks, safety, price, feeling, speed

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-buying.htm

How to design?

• Customer’s listPrice Model / TypeSafety DesignEfficiency FeaturesLooks FeelingPerformance HandlingSize Extra serviceCapacity User reviewsQuality / Reliability

How to design?

• What do you want to achieve and how?– Give people a vision about your car– The car specifications

• Engine, weight, efficiency, acceleration, topspeed, capacity

How to design?

• The car classification (EuroNCAP):Supermini

Small family car

Large family car

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification

How to design?

• The car classification (EuroNCAP):Supermini

Small family car

Large family car

Executive car

Roadster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification

How to design?

• The car classification (EuroNCAP):Supermini

Small family car

Large family car

Executive car

Roadster

Small MPV

MPV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification

How to design?

• The car classification (EuroNCAP):Supermini

Small family car

Large family car

Executive car

Roadster

Small MPV

MPV

Small Off-Roader

Large Off-Roader

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification

How to design?

• Body styles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_body_style

MinibusMinivanMPVNotchbackPick-upRoadsterSedanSUVSpyderStation wagonVan

4x4Semi-convertibleConvertibleCoupéCoupé convertibleCoupe Utility (ute) Crossover SUVFastbackHardtopLeisure activity vehicleLimousineLiftbackLimousine

How to design?

• Why emphasize on body or interior?

How to design?

• Why emphasize on body or interior?

• Because people don’t see below– But for safety and construction, this is important

Intermezzo

• How to use the rest of this presentation?– Look– Think– Create ideas– Write your opinions– Be amazed

• And in the end– Amaze others with your design

Community / student project design

• Vehicle Design Summit

http://www.vehicledesignsummit.org/

Community / student project design

• Solar challenge

Community / student project design

• Ecomarathon

Community / student project design

• OScar

http://www.theoscarproject.org/

Community / student project design

• Designs by only one person

Community / student project design

• Designs by student design classes

Community / student project design

• Designed and built

Designs in company projects

• From sketch to reality

Designs in company projects

• From sketch to reality

Designs in company projects

• Concepts of the past

Designs in company projects

• The future

Designs in company projects

• Showing the techniques

Designs in company projects

• Technical breakthroughs

Designs in company projects

• More recent breakthroughs

Designs in company projects

• The future is today

Designs in company projects

• Best sold

Designs in company projects

• Design variations

Designs in company projects

• What about the interior?

Designs in company projects

• From sketch to reality

Designs in company projects

• From sketch to reality

Designs in company projects

• Concept interior

Comparison

• Create the future

• Budget and time issue

• Knowledge limitation

Comparison

Comparison

• Looks similar?

Conclusion

• Look at the possibilities

Conclusion

• Think out of the box

Inspiration links

• http://www.carbodydesign.com/Concept cars, production cars, research papers, explanations

• http://www.conceptcarz.com/A very extensive list with photo’s of all produced cars and prototypes

• http://www.auta5p.eu/katalog/katalog.htm(Czech) – HUGE category of cars

• http://www.doubleyoudigital.nl/The place where you can download this presentation