US 12,441,420 B2
Group of motor vehicles
Thomas Breu, Edling (DE); Josip Durmis, Poing (DE); Wolfram Haug, Sauerlach (DE); and Joerg Kutzschbach, Petershausen (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/636,410
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 19, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/073225
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/032791, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 122 195.1 (DE), filed on Aug. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0281542 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 63/00 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60K 5/04 (2006.01); B62D 25/08 (2006.01); B62D 25/20 (2006.01); B62D 63/02 (2006.01); B62D 65/04 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 63/025 (2013.01) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60K 5/04 (2013.01); B62D 25/08 (2013.01); B62D 25/085 (2013.01); B62D 25/087 (2013.01); B62D 25/2018 (2013.01); B62D 65/04 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A group of motor vehicles of one vehicle type, comprising:
motor vehicles with three different drive concepts, wherein
the three different drive concepts comprise a combustion engine (“combustion drive”) or an electric motor (“electric drive”) or a combination of a combustion engine and an electric motor (“hybrid drive”),
two different floor panel subassemblies are provided, wherein a first floor panel subassembly, in an installed position in the motor vehicle, is arranged higher than a second floor panel subassembly, wherein
a bodyshell structure of the motor vehicles with the electric drive and of the motor vehicles with hybrid drive have the first floor panel subassembly and
a bodyshell structure of the motor vehicles with the combustion drive have the second floor panel subassembly, and
the motor vehicles with the electric drive and the motor vehicles with the hybrid drive have at least one battery arranged over a large area under the first floor panel subassembly,
wherein two different front-end subassemblies are provided,
wherein floor regions of the bodyshell structures of the motor vehicles are formed, in a manner dependent on the drive concept, by a combination of one of the two front-end subassemblies and one of the two floor panel subassemblies,
wherein the two front-end subassemblies have front longitudinal members, and
wherein:
in the case of a first front-end subassembly, the front longitudinal members end in the region of a bulkhead without continuation in a member structure at the underside of the floor panel subassembly, and
in the case of a second front-end subassembly, the front longitudinal members are adjoined by central longitudinal members which extend into the region underneath the floor panel subassembly.