D SCHUHMANN, FABIO OPPELT, M MERKEL, AALEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, GERMANY
DK HARRISON, GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND
Virtuous
cycles
48 iVTInternational.com November 2019
AS HYBRIDIZATION AND ELECTRIFICATION EVOLVE FROM
AUTOMOTIVE TO OFF-HIGHWAY, THE ADOPTION OF NEW
DRIVING CYCLES WILL HELP TO ENABLE MORE ACCURATE
AND EFFECTIVE VEHICLE DESIGN
Clean and efficient vehicles are
increasingly important in our
society. New emission laws make it
increasingly difficult to justify new
vehicles with conventional drive
systems. Electromobility is a key
technology to meet these challenges.
In order to develop new and efficient
drive components, precise
application areas and load
requirements of vehicles are
becoming increasingly important to
designers. For this purpose, driving
cycles can be used to evaluate
emissions. In the field of off-road
vehicles, driving profiles and areas
of application are very specialised,
and yet driving cycles are standard.
Driving cycles are used to
evaluate exhaust emissions from
vehicles and also for the approval of
new vehicle types. Based on load
requirements and load collectives
contained in driving cycles, vehicles
can be designed with regard to
energy efficiency but also
performance of the electrical and
mechanical powertrain. During
development, components and
assemblies particularly for electric
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