Drive arrangement for an electric vehicle and method for power shifting
A drive arrangement for an element vehicle, having first and second drive wheels (R 1 , R 2 ), a first electric machine (EM 1 ) and a second electric machine (EM 2 ) with a common rotational axis (m), a manual transmission (G 3 ) with a transmission input shaft (EW) and a transmission output shaft (AW) and an axle differential (DI) with a differential input (DIK) and two differential output shafts ( 3 a, 3 b ). The first electric machine (EM 1 ) is connected to the transmission input shaft (EW) and the transmission output shaft (AW) is connected to the differential input (DIK), and the second electric machine (EM 2 ) can, if necessary, be engaged as an additional drive.
1. A drive arrangement for an electric vehicle, comprising:
first and second drive wheels with wheel axles,
a first electric machine and a second electric machine with a common rotational axis,
a manual transmission with a transmission input shaft and a transmission output shaft,
an axle differential with a differential input and two differential output shafts,
the first electric machine being connected to the transmission input shaft, and the transmission output shaft being connected to the differential input,
the second electric machine being engagable as an additional drive,
the manual transmission having first and second planetary gearsets coupled with one another, the first planetary gearset comprises a first sun shaft, a first ring gear shaft and a first carrier shaft and the second planetary gearset comprises a second sun shaft, a second ring gear shaft and a second carrier shaft,
the first ring gear shaft is disengagably connectable to the second carrier shaft and the second ring gear shaft is continually fixed to a housing, and
a coupling device having first and second independently engagable coupling elements,
the second electric machine is couplable to the transmission input shaft and the first sun shaft by engagement of the first coupling element,
the second electric machine is couplable to the first ring gear shaft by engagement of the second coupling element.
2. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission is a three-gear transmission with a first shifting element, a second shifting element and a third shifting element,
the first carrier shaft is solidly connected to the second sun shaft,
the first sun shaft forms the transmission input shaft,
the second carrier shaft forms the transmission output shaft and
the first shifting element is actuatable to engage a first gear, the second shifting element is actuatable to engage a second gear, and the third shifting element is actuatable to engage a third gear.
3. The drive arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the first ring gear shaft is disengagably connectable to the housing by engagement of the first shifting element.
4. The drive arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the first planetary gearset is blocked by engagement of the third shifting element in such a manner that the first ring gear shaft is couplable to the first carrier shaft and to the second sun shaft.
5. The drive arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the first, the second and the third shifting elements are unsynchronized claw shifting elements.
6. The drive arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein at least one of the first, the second and the third shifting elements is integrated in a sliding sleeve and the sliding sleeve is movably arranged on the first ring gear shaft.
7. The drive arrangement according to claim 6 , wherein the sliding sleeve is actuatable by an actuator.
8. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission is a two-gear transmission with a second shifting element, a third shifting element
the first carrier shaft is connected fixed to the second sun shaft,
the first sun shaft forms the transmission input shaft,
the second carrier shaft forms the transmission output shaft and the second shifting element is actuatable to engage a first gear, and
the third shifting element is actuatable to engage a second gear.
9. The drive arrangement according to claim 8 , wherein the first ring gear shaft is couplable to the second carrier shaft by engagement of the second shifting element.
10. The drive arrangement according to claim 8 , wherein the first planetary gearset is blocked by engagement of the third shifting element in such a manner that the first ring gear shaft is couplable to the first carrier shaft and the second sun shaft.
11. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission comprises neutral positions in which the first electric machine is decoupled.
12. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the coupling device is shiftable to first and second coupling positions and a neutral position, and, in the neutral position of the coupling device, the second electric machine is disengaged from the first planetary gearset by disengagement of the first and the second coupling elements.
13. The drive arrangement according to claim 12 , wherein, in the first coupling position of the coupling device, the second electric machine is coupled to the transmission input shaft and the first sun shaft by engagement of the first coupling element and the second electric machine is decoupled from the first ring gear shaft by disengagement of the second coupling element.
14. The drive arrangement according to claim 12 , wherein, in the second coupling position of the coupling device, the second electric machine is rigidly coupled to the first ring gear shaft by engagement of the second coupling element.
15. The drive arrangement according to claim 12 , wherein, in the neutral position of the coupling device, the second electric machine is decoupled from the first ring gear shaft and the first sun shaft.
16. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the wheel axles and the differential output shafts are arranged perpendicularly to the rotational axis of the first and the second electric machines, and the axle differential is drivable via a bevel drive by the transmission output shaft.
17. A method of carrying out shifts under load by shifting elements and the coupling elements of the drive arrangement, according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
operating the first electric machine as a main drive machine, and
utilizing the second electric machine for supporting traction force during shifting processes.
18. The method according to claim 17 , further comprising preparing for a shift from a first gear to a second gear or from the second gear to a third gear by coupling the first ring gear shaft to the second electric machine.
19. The method according to claim 17 , further comprising using the second electric machine to bring about synchronization during the shifting processes.
20. The method according to claim 17 , further comprising, after an end of the shifting processes, decoupling the second electric machine.
21. A drive arrangement for an electric vehicle, comprising:
first and second drive wheels with wheel axles,
a first electric machine and a second electric machine with a common rotational axis,
a manual transmission with a transmission input shaft and a transmission output shaft, and
an axle differential with a differential input and two differential output shafts,
the first electric machine being connected to the transmission input shaft, and the transmission output shaft being connected to the differential input, and
the second electric machine being engagable as an additional drive,
the transmission is a three-gear transmission with a first shifting element, a second shifting element and a third shifting element and first and second planetary gearsets coupled with one another,
the first planetary gearset comprises a first sun shaft, a first ring gear shaft and a first carrier shaft and the second planetary gearset comprises a second sun shaft, a second ring gear shaft and a second carrier shaft,
the first carrier shaft is solidly connected to the second sun shaft,
the first sun shaft forms the transmission input shaft,
the second ring gear shaft is held fixed,
the second carrier shaft forms the transmission output shaft and
the first shifting element is actuatable to engage a first gear, the second shifting element is actuatable to engage a second gear, and the third shifting element is actuatable to engage a third gear, and
the first ring gear shaft is couplable to the second carrier shaft by engagement of the second shifting element.