| Electric cars being developed today are not limited to passenger cars in general, but also electric racing car. Car’s ablity to maintain a good and stable manuever at high speeds becomes a major factor in designing a car, especially in steering system. The steering system is used to set the vehicle direction motion. This final project will discuss about the design of the steering system for Formula Student Electric Car. The type of steering gear that used in this final project is rack and pinion, with steel as the material for the linkages and also using a small steering wheel. This Formula Student Electric Car steering system refers to the Ackerman principle. It includes Ackerman geometry analysis, skid and roll analysis of the vehicle which turned on a flat road, as well as the tie rod strength calculation which caused by forces that arise in the front wheel. The final result shows outer steer angle of 22.88 degrees, ideal turning radius of 3.0408 meters and vehicle turning behavior that tends to oversteer. |