Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Gagan Saket

Piotr Kotlarski

Marcus Raepple

Herwig Kerstan

Josef Fuerfanger

A motor vehicle has a front-end vehicle structure which has a wheelhouse support structure on each side of the front-end vehicle structure, in each of which wheelhouse support structure a bearer extends from an A-column to an engine support via a suspension strut receptacle. An engine support is formed beneath each wheelhouse support structure. The front supporting bearer extends in a vertical plane in an arc from the suspension strut receptacle downwards to the engine support. The front supporting bearer extends in a horizontal plane in an arc from the suspension strut receptacle from the outside inwards in the direction of a longitudinal axis of symmetry through an angle to the engine support, and the front supporting bearer is fastened with the front end thereof to the engine support.

Motor vehicle

A motor vehicle has a body with a front section, a floor structure which adjoins the front section, and a floor panel, on the two longitudinal sides of which a sill is in each case arranged. The sills run from an A pillar, adjoining the front section, of the body as far as a C pillar of the body. An inner longitudinal member is on each longitudinal side of the floor panel. A bulkhead is arranged between the front section and the floor structure. Each sill is constructed from an inner C profile and an outer C profile. The first and second profile flanges of the C profiles, arranged in an overlapping manner, are connected, in particular welded, to the inner longitudinal member.

A motor vehicle has a drive battery which is accommodated in a drive battery housing. The drive battery housing is arranged and fastened on a floor structure, in particular on an underside, of a body of the motor vehicle. The drive battery housing has a lateral, in particular a left-hand and a right-hand, outer housing carrier structure which is arranged below, in particular left-hand and right-hand, side sills of the body in such a way that a first collision load path in a vehicle transverse direction, which is formed (substantially only) by the side sills and the floor structure of the body, and a second collision load path in a vehicle transverse direction, which is formed (substantially only) by the drive battery housing, are (substantially) completely separate from one another.

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Munich, Germany

Gagan Saket