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In order to develop various parts and components of electric vehicles, understanding the effects of their structures and thermal performance on the energy consumption and cruising distance is important. However, such essential and detailed information is generally not always available to suppliers of vehicle parts and components. This paper presents the development of a simple model of the energy consumption by an electric vehicle in order to roughly calculate the cruising performance based only on the published information to give to suppliers, who otherwise cannot obtain the necessary information. The method can calculate the cruising distance within an error of 4% compared to the published information. The effects of the glass and body heat transfer characteristics on the cruising performance in winter were considered as an example application of the proposed model.

The development of a double layered electroless nickel plating for automotive use is described. The developed layer is reliable enough to be used for connection between LCD terminals and driving circuits by solder. This technology is applicable for the connection of fine pitched terminal and also chip-on-glass (COG) technology. A prototype of COG-LCD panel using flat package-ICs for automotive use has been developed.