DESIGN CHALLENGE
16 iVT International Off-Highway 2020
CALLING ALL INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS!
HOW TO ENTER THE iVT DESIGN CHALLENGE 2021
The iVT Annual Design Challenge is about inspiring new thinking in off-highway vehicle design in order
to meet the constantly evolving demands of the industry, utilizing innovative materials, concepts and
components in new and creative ways. The Challenge helps to promote the work of the world’s best
industrial designers, pushing the industry forward and bringing it face-to-face with new challenges,
enabling us to address them as a global industry.
This is a call to all industrial designers – new or established – to show what kind of ideas you can
deliver, and to share them with the world. We hope Jon Pope’s ADT showcased on the previous three
pages will inspire you to create something equally innovative and stunning for the Design Challenge
2021. What makes for an innovative machine? What ideas help us see into the future? Can you create
something that will completely change our understanding of what an off-highway vehicle can be?
The Challenge for 2021 is:
Design an industrial vehicle that includes new styling and functionality that takes
full advantage of existing and possible future trends in electrifi cation
For submissions or to discuss more please contact iVT’s Saul Wordsworth
(saul.wordsworth@markallengroup.com) or call +44(0)1322 464741
All entries to the iVT Annual Design Challenge 2021 will be published in the iVT Off-Highway Annual
2021, or on www.ivtinternational.com. Deadline for entries is Friday July 10, 2020
don’t have a lot of room, then you could break
the inside wheels of the turn – the le wheels
because you’re making a le turn – and only the
outer wheels are spinning while the machine is
also articulating. at’s giving you a much tighter
turn and make the machine almost turn on its
own footprint.”
Since there are no longer any components in
the rear chassis Pope has moved the dump bed
hydraulics from outside to inside. e reason for
this is that if the vehicle does tip over, there’s a lot
less chance that the hydraulics will be harmed.
Cab innovations
In his design Pope is trying make the most of
electric over ICE, taking advantage of modularity
with no huge radiator or fuel tank.
“Now I’ve only got to concern myself with
cooling the batteries,” he says. “Traditional ADTs
tend to have a huge engine and cooling package
up front and the cab behind it. In the absence of a
huge Tier 4 radiator assembly in most diesel
engine packages and envisioning more e cient
battery cooling systems in the future, I’m no
longer so concerned about cooling, so I’ve moved
the cab up front.”
is provides two principal advantages. e
rst is to allow better visibility for the operator.
“ e second advantage is from a loading
standpoint,” says Pope. “ e cab is now further
away from the bed so if anything spills o out, it’s
more likely to hit the cooling system bonnet than
impact the driver. By isolating and pushing the
cab forward you minimize the chance of a
boulder rolling o the top and into the cab. But if
it does happen, the robust round shaped extruded
cab will still protect the operator.”
Pope’s cab rotates and elevates. e 45-degree
rotation in either direction is ideal when backing
up. Pope included this function because the
number one complaint he hears from operators is
their reliance on back-up cameras.
“ ey’re great if there’s no alternative but most
people would rather be able to see where they’re
going than use a camera,” he says. e whole cab
also elevates, raising itself skywards. Once raised
up it can rotate 180° in either direction, enabling
the operator to see over the dump bed.
“Travel speed backwards would have to be
restricted to a lower speed as the elevated cab will
raise the centre of gravity, potentially making the
machine more unstable on uneven ground, but I
think it’s an exciting addition. e only ADTs out
today I can think of that are close to doing this
are some smaller vehicles that have rotating
operator stations inside the cab. As far as I know
there aren’t any larger ADT’s in the 45-ton
capacity range that have a rotating cab enabling
the driver to move forwards or backwards. With
existing 45-ton machines, if you rotate the cab
backwards, you just see the back of the bed. at’s
why I elevate up.” iVT
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