Common use of EV Demo Clause in Contracts

EV Demo. The EV Demo is a part of the EV Demo Car which is currently under development at Continental. The EV Demo Car shall demonstrate the car’s entire potential set of features and functions. Furthermore the capability of Continental, as a leading automotive supplier, to provide a wide range of not only traditional but also innovative components and functions for an EV is a focus point to be demonstrated by means of this Demo Car. The different systems in the car – tires, brakes and e-propulsion – have to be tightly integrated to achieve best efficiency. The HMI needs to reflect the special requirements of electric vehicles by displaying relevant information and support the user inputs. The architecture and interfaces of the EV Demo Car system are defined in such a way that the components support best energy efficiency of the vehicle as well as to provide the required information to the driver. Thus the EV Demo Car shall represent a particularly well adapted platform to propose enhanced ergonomic-driven cockpit solutions facing the issues of always increasing complexity (see e.g. Continental’s concept “Simplify your Drive”). This depends on the kind of function and on the safety relevance of the function/component. The new concept of electric vehicle requires adapted system architecture and new system components to match the desired functionality. Not only the combustion engine is changed to electric propulsion but as well new additional functions have to be considered. The EV will be successful in the market if it is easy, simple, fun to drive and affordable in comparison to conventional combustion engines driven vehicles. The costs issues shall also consider a comparison as complete as possible (environmental issues, inspection and workshop services, costs of operation, insurance, tax – also with respect to regional specificities –, etc…). For the EV Demo as part of Maenad one of the newly developed components for the EV Demo Car will be a physical part of the demonstrator – the High Voltage Junction box. The aim of the EV Demo is to show the power distribution and interlock concept as well as the Driving mode selection. The following chapter gives an overview of the components and their interaction possibilities as set up for this demonstrator.