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IAVS Strategy
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* Explore lightweight materials.
* Determine optimum body construction and material combination. * Find opportunities to reduce weight of components and sub-systems. * Find opportunities to eliminate components. * Solicit support of suppliers for Ideas Prototyping. * Identify/purchase powertrain that matches Echo performance based on 30% lighter vehicle. * Award faculty projects that directly support the LMV program. * Encourage student projects that address IAVS objectives. * Focus on distributed low volume manufacturing facilities vs. single high volume facility. * Look for options to reduce tooling costs. * Explore modularity as means to provide for a more flexible vehicle configuration and spread tooling costs. |