Electric vehicle battery tray bracket
An electric vehicle includes an electric-vehicle battery tray including a frame member elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The electric vehicle includes a rocker rail elongated along the vehicle-longitudinal axis. The electric vehicle includes a subframe. The electric vehicle includes a bracket connecting the battery tray, the rocker rail, and the subframe.
1. An electric vehicle, comprising:
an electric-vehicle battery tray including a frame member elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis;
a rocker rail elongated along the vehicle-longitudinal axis;
a subframe; and
a bracket fixed to the battery tray, the rocker rail, and the subframe.
2. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising an electric-vehicle battery supported by the battery tray.
3. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising a wheel supported by the subframe vehicle-forward of the bracket, and wherein the wheel defines a movement path during a vehicle impact, the movement path extends rearward from the wheel, and the bracket includes a front surface in the movement path, the front surface extending at an obtuse angle relative to the movement path as measured vehicle-outboard of the movement path and forward of the bracket.
4. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the bracket is directly in front of the frame member along the vehicle-longitudinal axis.
5. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the battery tray includes a second frame member elongated along a vehicle-lateral axis and fixed to the bracket.
6. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising a second rocker rail spaced from the rocker rail with the battery tray disposed between the rocker rail and the second rocker rail, and a second bracket fixed to the battery tray, the second rocker rail, and the subframe.
7. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the bracket is unitary.
8. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the bracket distributes force from the subframe to both the rocker rail and the battery tray during a vehicle front impact.
9. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the bracket includes a plurality of ribs defining openings therebetween.
10. The electric vehicle of claim 9 , wherein the openings each have an open top and an open bottom.
11. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the bracket is fixed to the subframe at first attachment point and a second attachment point, to the battery tray at a third attachment point and a fourth attachment point, and to the rocker rail at a fifth attachment point and a sixth attachment point.
12. The electric vehicle of claim 11 , wherein the bracket includes a first rib extending from the first attachment point to the third attachment point and a second rib extending from the second attachment point to the fourth attachment point.
13. The electric vehicle of claim 12 , wherein the bracket includes a third rib extending from the first attachment point to the fifth attachment point and a fourth rib extending from the second attachment point to the sixth attachment point.
14. The electric vehicle of claim 13 , wherein the bracket includes a fifth rib extending from the second rib to the third rib.
15. An electric vehicle, comprising:
an electric-vehicle battery tray including a frame member elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis;
a rocker rail elongated along the vehicle-longitudinal axis;
a subframe; and
a bracket connecting the battery tray, the rocker rail, and the subframe, the bracket including a first sub-bracket and a second sub-bracket, both fixed to the battery tray, the rocker rail, and the subframe.
16. The electric vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the bracket includes a flange extending downward away from the battery tray.
17. The electric vehicle of claim 16 , further comprising a control arm and a control arm bracket supported by the subframe, the control arm bracket having a second flange extending downward away from the battery tray.
18. The electric vehicle of claim 15 , wherein the first sub-bracket is fixed to the second sub-bracket about a perimeter of the bracket.
19. An electric vehicle, comprising:
an electric-vehicle battery tray including a frame member elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis;
a rocker rail elongated along the vehicle-longitudinal axis;
a subframe;
a bracket connecting the battery tray, the rocker rail, and the subframe; and
a wheel supported by the subframe vehicle-forward of the bracket, the wheel defines a movement path during a vehicle impact, the movement path extends rearward from the wheel; and
the bracket includes a front surface in the movement path, the front surface extending at an obtuse angle relative to the movement path as measured vehicle-outboard of the movement path and forward of the bracket.