ABSTRACT

In recent years the need in energy saving in transportation raised the attention on alternative powertrain. The main competitor of ICE become electric motors. With this type of powertrain it is possible to drastically change the power train layout of a vehicle. It is in fact possible to equip the vehicle with more than one single motor. In this paper the author analyses the effectiveness of a control strategy for lateral dynamics applied on different powertrain layouts comparing the performance of each layout with respect to others and with respect to the passive equivalent vehicle.