Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Herwig Kerstan

Marcus Raepple

Wilhelm Riedl

Robert Loch

Thomas Herrmann

Richard Eiletz

Christoph Warkotsch

Franz Hoiss

Andreas Burja

Gagan Saket

Ramil Bikmukhametov

Siegfried Massun

Ingo Kuwalefsky

Martin Eis

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.

Motor vehicle having a drive battery

A method for integrating a high-voltage accumulator having at least one accumulator module into a support structure of a motor vehicle, wherein the following is performed: providing a housing part, which has a base plate and a frame-like edge extending around the base plate; arranging the at least one accumulator module on the housing part and/or on the support structure; arranging the edge of the housing part below and on a frame structure formed of supports of the support structure; and fastening the housing part to the support structure. An accumulator housing for the at least one accumulator module is thus formed. A housing interior of the accumulator housing is delimited by a bottom part of the support structure, which bottom part covers the frame structure toward a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle, and by the housing part and the frame structure.

Method for integrating a high-voltage accumulator into a support structure of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle

A vehicle body has a longitudinal member and a bumper cross-member. Furthermore, the vehicle body has a cantilever, which extends transversely to the longitudinal member along a transverse vehicle axis and is fastened to the longitudinal member in a torque-resistant manner. The cantilever is arranged in such a way that the cantilever protrudes into an intermediate space between a wheel mount and the bumper cross-member.

Vehicle body

A wheel carrier of a vehicle is provided with at least one spur to selectively deflect a wheel mounted on the wheel carrier in a predefined deflection direction in the event of an accident-generated application of force on the wheel.

Wheel of a vehicle

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Maisach-Gernlinden, Germany

Herwig Kerstan