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Books about automotive chassis design usually do not include a discussion about car prime movers and their energy sources, which are dealt with in details in books devoted to the study of engine or electric systems design. Nevertheless the opinion of the authors is that is quite impossible to design the performance of a chassis in terms of longitudinal dynamics, considering the prime mover as a black box only.
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Genta, G., Morello, L. (2020). Prime Movers for Motor Vehicles. In: The Automotive Chassis . Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35709-2_22
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