Conceptual Design of an Intra-City Microcar for 2030

Increase in population is observed in developed countries with overcrowded roads and lesser parking spaces in cities. Conventional resources are getting depleted hence the need of other resources such as electric vehicles is in more demand in terms of ecological, renewable and fast commuting solution. Hence this project is focused on the development of microcar for the year 2030. The impacts of microcars were assessed for a number of scenarios that reflects various possible features. Extensive literature surveys were conducted to identify problems associated in current urban transportation scenario. Customer requirements were identified from customer surveys at different cities. The major problems identified were found to be compactness, comfort and convenience drive etc. The design of microcar is based on several design considerations which includes customers feedback, literature survey etc.. Design of car seat and doors were based on ergonomic aspect by considering anthropometric dimensions using standard manikins which range from 5th percentile female to 95th percentile male. The ingress and egress aspects in this vehicle were found to be easy for both driver and co-passenger. Hence the proposed design of the microcar is found to be well packaged to meet the present urban driving conditions.