Abstract: A sports vehicle has a support frame, a passenger compartment, a fixed rear spoiler, a movable rear spoiler, and an operating device for moving the movable rear spoiler between a lifted position and a lowered position.

Abstract: Road vehicle with variable rear aerodynamic load; wherein the vehicle comprises a roll axis X, a pitch axis Y, a yaw axis Z, a front end of air penetration as the vehicle moves forward, a cockpit and a rear end beyond which the aerodynamic flow flowing above the cockpit detaches from the vehicle; wherein the rear end comprises: a aerodynamic body configured to generate a rear aerodynamic load as the vehicle moves forward; a light assembly housing at least one electrical lighting device; wherein the light assembly is movable in relation to the aerodynamic body to move between a first configuration, wherein it does not cooperate with the aerodynamic body and does not contribute to rear aerodynamic load generation, and a second configuration wherein it cooperates with the aerodynamic body and contributes to rear aerodynamic load generation.

Abstract: A steering wheel for a motor vehicle has a control portion rotatable about a steering wheel axis and a control paddle to control a function of the motor vehicle. The control portion is axially delimited between a back wall and a front wall opposite each other according to the steering wheel axis. A slide is slidable between first and second positions on a guide defined by the back wall. The control paddle in the first position is at least partially inserted in a seat of the back wall and has a first face facing a bottom of the seat and a second face opposite the first face arranged at least partially flush with an outer surface of the back wall, so as to blend in with the back wall. The control paddle in the second position is at least partially extracted from the seat and free to rotate.

Abstract: A motor-vehicle, comprising a first and a second wheel, a third and a fourth wheel, a first and a second reversible electric machine connected to the first and second wheel; a third and a fourth reversible electric machine connected to the third and fourth wheel; and a rechargeable electrical power source; a control unit programmed to: process electrical power values available for the regenerative engine brake simulation based on the amount of electrical power still storable in the source and on first operating parameters of the motor vehicle; communicate said available power values to the respective first, second, third and fourth electric machine and receive, from them, values of a first, second, third and fourth torque available for the regenerative engine brake simulation associated with second parameters of the electric machines; and cause the first, second, third and fourth electric machine to implement a respective first, second, third and fourth braking torque acting upon the respective wheels.

Abstract: A selector knob for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The selector knob comprises a support adapted to be attached to a component of the motor vehicle, a lever carried by the support in a rotatable manner about a straight axis among a plurality of distinct angular positions, transduction means configured to detect information about an actual angular position of the lever and to generate a control signal corresponding to the detected information, and a cam element coupled to the support in a movable manner along a radial direction with respect to said axis and fixed with respect to the support, the cam element further being stably cooperating in contact with a radially inner surface of the lever extending about said axis and defining a plurality of grooves, each of which accommodates the cam element when the lever reaches a said distinct angular position.

Abstract: A vehicular battery pack comprising a three-dimensional substrate arranged within the housing and provided with a plurality of seats, which extend on the inside of the substrate; a plurality of active primary units; wherein each primary unit is entirely inserted in a respective seat; wherein each seat has a shape that is complementary to the one of each primary unit; the battery pack further comprising a first closure assembly, which closes said plurality of primary units inside the respective seats; wherein the closure assembly comprises a plurality of first closure elements, which are electrically conductive and are each arranged in the area of a respective opening; wherein the first terminal is electrically in contact with the respective first closure element of the respective seat.

Abstract: An apparatus with a dual-clutch gearbox for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus can comprise an input shaft, a first shaft, a second shaft, and a double clutch controllable to selectively connect one of the first and second shafts with the input shaft. The apparatus further comprises an output shaft and a plurality of engagement devices operable to selectively connect one of the first and second shafts with the output shaft.

Abstract: An apparatus with a dual-clutch gearbox for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus can comprise an input shaft, a first shaft, a second shaft, and a double clutch controllable to selectively connect one of the first and second shafts with the input shaft. The apparatus further comprises an output shaft and a plurality of engagement devices operable to selectively connect one of the first and second shafts with the output shaft.

Abstract: A road vehicle having a roll axis, a pitch axis and a yaw axis and comprising a rear aileron; characterized in that the rear aileron comprises two airfoils coupled to each other in a rotary manner around a pivoting pin with an axis parallel to the yaw axis so that the aileron can assume a variable geometry between an opening configuration, in which the airfoils are in series to each other along an axis parallel to the pitch axis, and a closing configuration, in which the airfoils are in parallel to each other along an axis parallel to the roll axis, going through a plurality of semi-opening configurations, in which the airfoils define a non-zero negative sweep angle toward the front portion of the vehicle.

Abstract: A motor vehicle comprises a suspended mass comprising a body, an unsprung mass comprising a plurality of wheels to allow the motor vehicle to move forward on a road, an active suspension assembly configured to suspend the suspended mass relative to the unsprung mass and controllable to move the suspended mass relative to the unsprung mass, an engine carried by the body, a transmission connecting the engine to at least two of said wheels, thereby defining traction wheels, such that the engine can deliver torque to the traction wheels causing acceleration of the motor vehicle, and a control unit configured to control the active suspension assembly during said acceleration and/or in a steady state of the motor vehicle prior to said acceleration imposing a displacement of the suspended mass relative to the unsprung mass according to a yaw axis of the motor vehicle to increase the maximum transmissible force from the traction wheels to the road.

Abstract: A gearshift lever assembly includes a support base, a lever body coupled to the support base in a movable manner along a path comprising a plurality of predetermined positions relative to the support base, a first magnet fixed with respect to the lever body and having a first magnetic pole, and at least one corresponding second magnet for each one of said predetermined positions, the second magnet having a relative second magnetic pole opposite the first magnetic pole and being carried by the support base in a relative fixed position, such that said second pole magnetically co-operates with the first pole when the lever body is in the corresponding predetermined position between said predetermined positions, so that the corresponding second magnet exerts a magnetic attraction upon the first magnet.

Abstract: A turbocharger for road vehicles has a turbine provided with a first impeller engaged in a first containing casing in a rotary manner, a compressor provided with a second impeller engaged in a second containing casing in a rotary manner, and a transmission shaft coupled to the impellers of the turbine and the compressor in an angularly fixed manner and engaged in a rotary manner through at least one support bearing; the impeller of the compressor being axially limited by an end face facing the second containing casing and provided with at least one tooth configured to generate a pressure drop in an air flow fed between the impeller and the containing casing of the compressor.

Abstract: A motor vehicle comprising a sound emitting instrument for emitting sound comprising an aerophone instrument is disclosed. The aerophone instrument is arranged so as to be constantly invested by an aerodynamic flow corresponding to a forward motion of the motor vehicle, whereby the aerophone instrument is configured to emit at least part of said sound passively through the aerodynamic flow, and an active device configured to actively control at least one property of the sound, characterized by comprising a control apparatus, in turn comprising a mapping to associate a speed of the motor vehicle with a desired value of a variable corresponding to the property, the control apparatus being configured to determine the speed of the motor vehicle, and control the active device as a function of the desired value according to a control law to reduce a deviation between an actual value of the variable and the desired value.