Advanced Vehicles EcoCar Garage

The Advanced Vehicles EcoCar Garage provides capabilities for vehicle modeling, integration and testing for the advancement of hybrid and electric technology.

Researchers and student teams, including ERAU’s EcoEagles, use this facility to develop advanced vehicles and prepare for the Department of Energy, General Motors and MathWorks-sponsored EcoCAR series.

The garage space, in Lehman 186, is equipped for the development and testing of the hardware that goes into a state-of-the-art, consumer-acceptable vehicle. The design laboratory, in Lehman 171A, offers top-of-the-line computers, computer-aided design systems, finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, and dSPACE and Speedgoat HIL "hardware in the loop" systems, which allows for simulation, development and rapid testing of vehicle architectures and components.

This space is card-access controlled, enabling student researchers to work in the space on their own schedule with faculty permission, and is used as part of the Mechanical Engineering senior design for the high-performance vehicles track.

Equipment

• Challenger auto lift
• Land & Sea chassis dynamometer
• Tektronix oscilloscope
• Speedgoat HIL simulator
• dSPACE HIL simulator
• Weller soldering station
• Four Snap-On tool chests with hand tools
• Lincoln electric MiG welder
• Cadillac LYRIQ
• Engine hoist
• Low voltage power supply
• High voltage power supply
• High voltage tooling and safety equipment