A motor vehicle body includes a rear wheel housing with a wheel well that accommodates a rear wheel and a wall section upwardly projecting form the wheel well. A C-pillar inner wall is fastened to the wall section along a first fastening zone and overlaps an opening formed in the wall section between the first fastening zone and wheel well. A weld joins the C-pillar inner wall and a C-pillar outer wall together at the level of the opening.

The vehicle body lower structure disclosed herein may include: a hollow rocker arranged at a lower lateral part of a vehicle body and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body; a reinforcement member arranged in the rocker; a power source arranged adjacent to the rocker; and an energy absorbing member (an EA member) arranged under the rocker and connected to the power source. A bolt may fix both of the EA member and the reinforcement member to the rocker.

The disclosure relates to a vehicle body element connecting joint for connecting a first body element to a second body element, which connecting joint comprises first and second elongate profiles arranged along adjacent edges of the first and second body elements, respectively. The connecting joint comprises a first projection protruding from the first elongate profile parallel to a side surface of the first elongate profile and extending towards a free end of the first elongate profile, a first recess arranged in a side surface of the second elongate profile and arranged parallel to an edge of the second elongate profile, wherein the first projection is inserted into the first recess. A first and second dovetail section protrude from the first and second elongate profile, respectively At least one fastening strip contacts the first and second dovetail sections to clamp the first and second elongate profiles to each other.

Presented are fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite components for vehicle body structures, methods for making/using such components, and motor vehicles equipped with such components. A vehicle body structure includes one or more elongated support rails (e.g., a pair of lateral roof rails) each with an inner contoured rail panel joined to an outer contoured rail panel to define an internal rail cavity. One or more elongated support pillars (e.g., front, side, and/or back vehicle pillars) adjoin the support rail(s) and each includes an inner contoured pillar panel joined to an outer contoured pillar panel to define an internal pillar cavity coupled to the internal rail cavity. One or both contoured pillar panels and one or both contoured rail panels is/are formed, in whole or in part, from an FRP material. A structural reinforcement insert may be located inside the adjoined pillar and rail, filling a discrete region within the internal cavities.

An axle drive apparatus of the present invention includes an adapter unit that has an adapter case connectable to an axle drive case while supporting a first motor, an adapter input member connected to an output shaft of the first motor by connection of the first motor to the adapter case, an adapter output member that is connected to an axle drive input member of the axle drive apparatus by connection of the adapter case to an axle drive case, and an adapter power transmission mechanism that operatively transmits the rotational power of the adapter input member to the adapter output member. The axle drive apparatus is connectable to a vehicle frame through an axle drive case side frame connecting part and an adapter case side frame connecting part respectively provided at the axle drive case and the adapter case.

This disclosure relates to a motor vehicle, and in particular a vehicle body structure for a motor vehicle, with an extended roof reinforcement structure. An example vehicle includes an A-pillar, a roof side rail, a dash panel, and a reinforcement structure extending at least partially through the roof side rail and the A-pillar to a front end forward of the dash panel.

An underbody of a vehicle includes: a floor member formed through extrusion to extend in a width direction of the vehicle. The floor member is provided in plural such that a plurality of floor members is continuously disposed to be adjacent to one another in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. Upper surfaces of the floor members constitute a floor of the vehicle, and lower surfaces of the floor members constitute an upper battery case. The underbody further includes first welding areas each formed in a boundary area between the lower surfaces of adjacent ones of the floor members, to interconnect the adjacent floor members. The first welding areas are formed through friction stir welding and extend in the width direction of the vehicle.

A front pillar substructure that enables reduction in deformation of a front pillar. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a front pillar substructure including a front pillar, and a rocker being joined to the front pillar. The front pillar includes an inner panel located inside with respect to the rocker, and an outer panel arranged so as to interpose the rocker between the inner panel and the outer panel. The outer panel includes an upper panel, and a lower panel overlapped with and joined to the upper panel, the lower panel extending downward with respect to the upper panel. The upper panel or the lower panel includes a bent section bending in the width direction when viewed from the front-rear direction, the bent section being located inside with respect to a joint region where the upper panel and the lower panel are joined.

An apparatus and method, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a bracket system having a first portion fixed to a vehicle panel and a second portion that is moveable relative to the first portion for adjustment purposes. At least one first fastener holds the first and second portions together prior to assembly of the vehicle panel to a pillar. The at least one first fastener is loosened to adjust a position of the second portion relative to the pillar. At least one second fastener secures the second portion to the pillar subsequent to adjustment, and the at least one first fastener is tightened subsequent to adjustment to hold the vehicle panel in a desired position relative to the pillar.

A cover module of a charging port for an electric vehicle includes a panel coupling body comprising a charging housing fixed to an inner panel of a vehicle body of the electric vehicle to form a mounting hole, and a side outer coupled to face the inner panel fixed to the charging housing so that the mounting hole formed by the charging housing and the inner panel is maintained, and a cover main body formed in a shape corresponding to the mounting hole, provided with a plurality of hooks along an edge thereof to cover the mounting hole, and coupled to the panel coupling body by the hooks.