electronic suspension

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"Last December at the Future of Electric Vehicles conference in San Jose, a representative from The Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology presented research that his institution had been doing into a novel type of electromagnetic vehicle suspension. Now that a test car equipped with the suspension is about to appear at the AutoRAI exhibition in Amsterdam, the university has released some more details about the technology. For starters, it is not only electromagnetic but also active, meaning that it doesn't just mechanically respond to bumps in the road, but is controlled by an onboard computer. It is claimed to improve the overall ride quality of cars by 60 percent."

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alabamatoy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group I dont work here anymore... Joined: 16 February 2004 Location: Signal Mountain Status: Offline Points: 9369	Post Options Post Reply Quote alabamatoy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: electronic suspension Posted: 06 April 2011 at 12:38am
	From Slashdot: "Last December at the Future of Electric Vehicles conference in San Jose, a representative from The Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology presented research that his institution had been doing into a novel type of electromagnetic vehicle suspension. Now that a test car equipped with the suspension is about to appear at the AutoRAI exhibition in Amsterdam, the university has released some more details about the technology. For starters, it is not only electromagnetic but also active, meaning that it doesn't just mechanically respond to bumps in the road, but is controlled by an onboard computer. It is claimed to improve the overall ride quality of cars by 60 percent."
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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 April 2011 at 8:36am
	But how much flex do they get??

jarmumd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List RCRC Club Visitor Joined: 26 July 2010 Location: Harvest, AL Status: Offline Points: 262	Post Options Post Reply Quote jarmumd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 April 2011 at 4:30pm
	Really, if it weren't so ridiculously expensive, it would be pretty cool to design a similar system for crawlers using rheomagnetic shocks like those found on the high end corvettes. Our goal instead of ride quality per se would be to control body sway so that while you are tippy on an obstacle, bumping it wouldn't be as likely to bounce you on your side... The trouble always is, if you have enough money for something like that, you would have enough to build several rigs so that you didn't CARE if you put it on it's side!