Overview
- Emergency vehicles experience
- Preferred solution
- Recycling of existing ambulance
- Building your emergency vehicle
- “Treatment Box”
- Batteries and power
- Advantages
Emergency vehicles experience
- Europe: 250 fully electric vehicles over a period or 2 years
- 2019-20 budget to supply ambulances, this budget was set aside in early-mid 2020-budget restraints due to Covid, reset for 2020-21
- Two individual States.
- Ongoing talks with the US Armed Forces
- All services to employ the Ford F450 chassis
Preferred Solution
- Our preference is to recycle your existing Emergency Vehicles at the end of. Either:
- Leasing period
- Vehicle replacement, if purchased
- BMP can supply a new vehicle if desired
- Chassis we use include: Mercedes Sprinter, Renault Master Van, Iveco Daily and Ford 450
- No loss of capital costs, when a vehicle is exchanged.
- New vehicle capital costs vs recycled EV Vehicle build.
- Reduced operating costs
- Reduced infrastructure – fuel and fluids storage and supply
- Reduced maintenance – almost nil with only brakes to be maintained on a regular basis.
- Reduced maintenance tooling/facilities and staffing.
- Reduced spare parts
Recycling of existing ambulance
- US example: Ford 450 is the basis of the Ambulance
- Remove:
- Engine
- Gearbox
- Rear axle, differential and driveline
- Cooling system
- Exhaust
- Fuel Tank
- 1.5 t removed
- These parts will be sold for some return
- Leaving the original Ford 450 Chassis
- No changes to the chassis:
- Original design is intact
- OEM certification remains (ADR equivalent)
- Allowing OEM Brakes to be used
- Revamped – repaired (if required) – re-painted
- We now have an OEM Ford 450 chassis ready to be converted into a electric emergency vehicle
Building your emergency vehicle
- Options: single motor or twin motor drive units
- Single motor option:
- Typical differential type rear axle
- Slightly lower cost
- “Treatment Box” is mounted on top of the chassis
- Twin motor option:
- Allows for torque vectoring drive
- Differential is removed allowing “Treatment Box” to be lowered below the top of the chassis
- Lower centre of gravity
- Differing floor levels
- Aids access to the rear of the “Treatment Box”
- Additional battery option
- Hydrogen cartridge options: additional power supply
- Air suspension option: able to lift or lower both the front or the rear of the vehicle, for better egress access to and from the vehicle or improve ground clearance
- O2 Concentrator option: produce oxygen at a level of 95 to 97% O2, which for the greater part would negate the need to carry oxygen on board. One of the US States has this under test and is being overseen by a medal panel
“Treatment Box”
- The easily removed and exchangeable “Treatment Box”
- Constructed for lightweight materials: aluminium and composite panels.
- “Treatment Box” fit-out by others
- “Treatment Box” is reinforced at each corner to allow the Box to be jacked up for maintenance, removal or exchange
- Patented jacking process – that is easily moved around any workshop, by two people as its on rubber tyres
- “Treatment Box” is fitted with quick release safety
- “Treatment Box” is fitted with all the power connections – ready for the Fit-Out vendor as these are plug and play connections from the chassis to the Box.
Batteries and power
- Generator testing – high and low temperature, in snow, rain and mud
- The battery storage containers are designed in conjunction with our team members associated with F1 and use batteries from their vendor, as used within their KERS brakes.
- Batteries temperature control critical
- ECU programmed with the aid of our team members associated with F1
- Option: hydrogen fuel cell. These fuel cells from one of our partners are approximately 1 litre size and can be used to generate power
- Option: separate Battery to run the “Treatment Box”
- The batteries are charged via the patented generating process which is built in house
- Battery containers are located within the chassis rails and in the old engine bay
- Each battery containers can be easily removed at any time
Advantages
- Almost nil maintenance
- No fuel, fluids or oils to replace
- Almost all the wearing parts now removed
- Availability increased
- Flexibility to change the Medical Box easily, allowing fleet flexibility.
- Hydrogen Cartridge availability to use if needed option. Hydrogen Production station fitted at the depot option. Cartridge recharge option.
- Options to make the drivers cab a level floor, i.e. walk through, with the gearbox now removed
- Power saving (ECU Controls) fitted to the (Medical Box) to save battery power.
- Vehicle stability increased, due to the lowering of the centre of gravity for components and the Medical Box.
- Medical Box (split level option) aids patient care and paramedics endurance.
- No purchase or lease exchange at the end of vehicle life
- Separate vehicle and “Treatment Box” – can be treated differently
- With the BMP Method you get an updated vehicle at greatly reduced capital cost and lower operating costs