Transportation R&D

 

Glacier Bay / DARPA
Environmental Control system
for Electric & Hybrid Vehicles
(ECS)

 

SYSTEM PHOTOGRAPHS

 

The ECS-equipped Solectria ready for testing at Florida Solar Research Center.Solcar.jpg (21822 bytes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under the hood of the Solectria.  The Glacier Bay ECS components are seen in the outlined area and close-up view.  The 165vdc brushless DC hermetic compressor can be seen in blue.composit.jpg (27245 bytes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Glacier Bay's gas-fired "Volcano" heater before mounting.  The air intake blower is visible at the right-hand side of the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Volcano heater mounted in the continuous-run test stand ready for emissions testing at the University of California - Davis.

 

 

 

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