Emission Potentials of powertrain manufacturers in india.
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Sustainable mobility has become priority in the wake of environmental concerns viz. emissions and depletion of fossil fuels. The growing demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles to reduce energy consumption and air pollution is a challenge for the automotive industry. Significant improvements in fuel economy can be obtained by weight reduction of vehicle as well as by improvements in engine and powertrain manufacturers in india efficiency. If the vehicle body mass is reduced, there will be secondary mass reductions at the component level, particularly in the powertrain. Globally, automotive manufacturers have been engaged in efforts to develop lighter alternatives using aluminium alloys and other light weight materials, so as to reduce the energy requirement, improve the fuel consumption and reduce vehicular emissions. While the growth in mobility is growing rapidly in India, the installed base is still comparatively small, compared to the developed countries. Hence it would be possible to influence the growth of transportation systems, through policy measures, to lower the carbon footprint.
An apparatus on an integrated circuit provides a real-time flexible interface between inputs from a vehicle components and outputs to the vehicle control components. The functions comprises of a programmable interconnection matrix, engine sensors and a control interface. Both engine sensors and control functions comprise of fixed hardwired functions and a customization hardware area. The apparatus therefore provides means for flexible powertrain events control target for the next generation of low-polluting power trains of vehicles.
The use of aluminum in automotive applications is expanding. Aluminum offers a lower-weight alternative to steel, potentially increasing the efficiency of vehicles. However, the application of aluminum has been only in select areas of use, most notably cast aluminum in the engine, transmission, and wheels. Other areas offer the potential for growth that could significantly expand the amount of aluminum used in vehicles. Cost is the main barrier to increased aluminum use. Related to cost are aluminum production technologies that are not yet advanced enough to produce aluminum components at low enough price points for aluminum to compete with traditional automotive materials. Today's technologies require higher-priced alloys to be used for the components
Car powertrain manufacturers in india have become increasingly interested in the efficiency of driveline components and other fuel-saving potentials, due to European customers' growing demand for vehicles with lower fuel consumption as well as the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) regulations of the United States. In order to support these needs, Steyr-Daimler-Puch-AG began to measure and simulate spin losses in 1995. This systematic investigation was initiated by the author's thesis in cooperation with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering at the TU Graz.
Mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions is one of the biggest and most complex issues the world has ever faced. Technological innovation plays a major role in taking on this challenge. Old and new industrial powers alike are increasingly reforming their policy frameworks to encourage low-carbon investment and innovation. The research project "Technological trajectories for low-carbon innovation in China, Europe and India" explored to what extent, how and why technological pathways differ across countries. Case studies were conducted in electromobility and wind power technologies. Evolutionary economics has demonstrated how initial choices of technologies and institutions preclude certain options at later stages; hence, innovations evolve in an incremental and cumulative way, resulting in context-specific technological pathways. How industries adapt, which alternatives emerge, how rapidly they become competitive and eventually substitute the incumbent technologies therefore follow country-specific technological pathways.
We seek to understand the relative impacts that policies and incentives focused on e-mobility may have on the technology market shares for passenger cars, and the associated fleet energy requirements and greenhouse gas emissions. We have a European Union (EU) wide focus, and from this deduce what recommendations could be provided for countries intending to encourage e-mobility in the near future. For this task we integrate two in-house models of the vehicle fleet and market developed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre. Emission Potentials of powertrain manufacturers in india.Our main policy conclusion is that although ambitious policy may lead to great improvements in specific efficiency and emissions, second order effects could lead to increased passenger car activity, limiting the overall emission improvement achieved. Therefore, any policy portfolio requires not only technological policies (aimed at both users and powertrain manufacturers in india), but also would need to address wider mobility patterns in an integrated approach.
Alternative powertrains are considered as a promising option to significantly reduce CO2emissions from passenger cars. One major prerequisite is their successful market introduction. In this paper, we present a system dynamics model that allows for the evaluation of strategies for the market introduction of alternative powertrain technologies in long-range passenger cars (400km) under competition. The model considers two competing powertrain manufacturers in india, one first-mover and one follower, each introducing plug-in hybrids and fuel cell electric vehicles according to exogenously defined strategies, which comprise timing, pricing, and technology parameters. The powertrain manufacturers in india can learn from each other due to technology spillover, leading to cost reductions of the powertrains. We use an exemplary dataset for the German car market to study the manufacturers' influence on the market success of alternative powertrains as well as the underlying mechanisms.
After an extended period of technological stability, the automotive industry has entered an era of ferment, triggered by regulatory, economic and technological changes. This ferment has also spread to powertrain development in the industry most conservative and least researched sector, heavy vehicles. All European heavy truck and bus majors are now experimenting with new powertrain technologies in small series, mostly in buses, and hybrid system suppliers from other industries have also entered the field. In an unprecedented move, Volvo departed from the industry majors cautious approach by launching a completely new powertrain platform for the London hybrid bus trial 2010-2012, and making this platform the standard for its future city buses in Europe. Does this signal an end to the industry´s persistent mono-design regime in powertrains.By employing a longitudinal approach, comparing Volvo and its niche-focused competitors both in the development and early market stages, the paper investigates the technology.
The Integrated European Project 'Renewable Fuels for Advanced Powertrains (RENEW)' has brought together 32 European partners among them automotive powertrain manufacturers in india, mineral oil industry, plant builders and R and D institutes to cooperate in a four year project to undertake a technical, economic and environmental assessment of production routes for renewable biomass-to-liquid (BTL) fuels. The whole chain from biomass production up to fuel application in today's and future combustion engines will be investigated. The common interface is a synthesis gas (H2 plus CO) which is produced from lingo-cellulosic biomass (wood, straw and energy plants) via gasification. Fisher-Tropsch-diesel, HCCI-fuel, DME and ethanol will be produced via synthesis. After 30 months duration production of BTL fuels has been completed and engine tests proved the suitability of such motor fuels. Activities now concentrate on further optimisation of processes and fuel specifications. Investigations on the biomass potential in EU-28 revealed a considerable substitution potential of fossil fuels.
This submission is a summary of the ten submissions that form the Engineering Doctorate Portfolio. The aim of the portfolio is to demonstrate the benefit of applying systems modelling and simulation in a modified powertrain product development process. A description is given of the competitive pressures that are faced by motor powertrain manufacturers in india in the global automotive business environment. Competitive pressures include a requirement for reduced time to market, exacting product quality standards, powertrain manufacturers in india over-capacity that increases fixed costs and compromises profit margins, and legislation that is increasingly difficult to meet.Emission Potentials of powertrain manufacturers in india. High-level strategic responses that are being made by powertrain manufacturers in india to these pressures are presented. Each strategic response requires organisational changes and improved approaches to the way in which day-to-day business is conducted.
Electric drive systems will play an important role in the development of future automobile architectures. The electrification allows a diversification of energy sources and offers great opportunities for an environmentally friendly expansion in the automotive industry. However, the electric drives are a challenge for the powertrain manufacturers in india. The electrical powertrain can not only be exposed to interferences, it may also emit interferences into components and communication cables in the vicinity. These can be a high risk for the drive system and for the passengers. To study the electrical powertrain more in detail and thus avoid these interferences, simulations are a useful tool. This paper presents different types of simulations of electrical powertrains for transportation systems. As a main aspect, the interference coupling of the High Voltage cables (HV-cables) of the electrical powertrain to nearby communication cables is studied using field simulation based on the method of moments and also network simulation with SPICE.
The increase in the extent of vehicles running on internal combustion engines has led to serious concern towards the harmful gasses emitted from them, which affects the balance of natural ecosystem. To reduce the amount of emissions emitted from vehicles, emission regulations are reinforced continuously; which all vehicle powertrain manufacturers in india must fulfil. To meet the emission regulations, powertrain testing has become more important right from the development process of a vehicle.The Hardware-in-Loop is one of the powertrain testing approach which allows testing to be conducted on a test object. The test object can be an engine or any powertrain component without the need for a complete vehicle as in Chassis Dyno testing. Besides the test object which is physical hardware, software components containing all the models to replicate the complete vehicle testing are required. The correct functionality of the software component is vital; if one model produces unwanted behaviour, the whole test can be delayed for days.
During the last decade, hybrid electric vehicles have gained a presence in the automotive market. On the streets, in motorsports and in society, hybrid electric vehicles are increasingly common. Many powertrain manufacturers in india have become involved in hybrid electric vehicles, while others have hybrid electric vehicle projects in development. Thus, there is already a great variety of hybrid electric vehicles in production, from small microhybrid vehicles to range extenders. Although there are some hybrid electric vehicles designed for urban driving or luxury segments of the market, most of the market share is aimed to the same kind of use and driving, resulting in potentially subsized or oversized hybrid systems that could lead to inefficient use of the vehicle’s fuel-saving capabilities in many situations. The present work studies the influence of the sizes of the powertrain components (i.e. the engine, the motor and the battery) on the fuel economy under different assumptions: city driving, highway driving and mixed driving.
With crew and passenger safety resting on the outcome, testing aircraft subsystems is, by necessity, an exacting process. The U.S. Dept. of Defense (DoD) already is taking delivery of a new generation of helicopter test equipment that will drastically reduce the time, dollars, and energy expended in testing aircraft powertrains. The DoD will be replacing 20 aging dedicated test stands with five new flexible test machines. These new test systems will allow the DoD to institute new streamlined testing processes that sidestep the labor-intensive setup and tear-down that accompanies the use of current-generation test stands. Eliminating these steps will enable aircraft powertrain manufacturers in india to conduct multiple testing operations in a single shift, as opposed to the single test most can conduct today.
The development of hybrid powertrains is a challenging task for vehicle powertrain manufacturers in india. On the one hand there are requirements imposed by legislation and customers leading to different and in many cases concurrent development targets. On the other hand development engineers face a wide extent of degrees of freedom, which determine the vehicle's behavior and characteristics. An important tool to master the complexity of the development task consists in the integration of real drive units in the simulation. The TU Darmstadt has worked out a concept for this integration and is investigating the possibilities it presents for system tuning and the use of optimization methods. Motivation The targets for hybrid vehicle development are derived from the demand for high vehicle efficiency, durability and drivability as well as low pollutant emissions and vehicle costs. The scope of possibilities for system tuning ranges from the components' dimensions and adjustments to their mechanics and applicat.
On the occasion of this year's IAA, MTZ presents an overview of the current state of powertrain technology and some of the most important future developments. Vehicle powertrain manufacturers in india and their suppliers are focusing on a further reduction in energy consumption and emissions, not only against the background of the long-term depletion of the world's fossil energy reserves but also as a result of ambitious environmental legislation.
In recent years, the increasing severity of emission standards forced car powertrain manufacturers in india to integrate vehicle powertrains with additional mechatronic elements, consisting in sensors, executors and controlling elements interacting with each other. However, the introduction of the best available ecological devices goes hand in hand with the legislation and/or limitations in different regional markets. Thus, the designers adapt the mechatronic system to the target emission standards of the produced powertrain. The software embedded into the Engine Control Unit (ECU) is highly customized for the specific configurations: variability in mechatronic systems leads to the development of several software versions, lowering the efficiency of the design phase. Therefore the employment of a standard for the communication among sensors, actuators and the ECU would allow the development of a unique software for different configurations; this would be beneficial from a powertrain manufacturers in india point of view, enabling the simplification of the design process.
Purpose Environmental assessments in the transportation sector are often lacking in transparency and completeness. In this article, the environmental trade-offs in road passenger transportation between conventional vehicles and electrified vehicles are compared, using life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Hence, the relevance of a massive electrification approach can be questioned. Assessing a set of current midsize passenger cars and buses allows for investigation of potential environmental issues. This is the first detailed LCA concerning several hybridization levels for cars and buses, and it is based on real consumption data for two traffic conditions. Methods We focused on the ISO standards (ISO 2006a, b) and analyzed the energy carriers' life cycle and the vehicle's life cycle. The functional unit is clearly defined as the transportation of one passenger over 1 km in specific driving conditions from a point A to a point B, without prejudice toward the path taken.
The continued push for the reduction of energy consumption across the automotive vehicle fleet has led to widespread adoption of hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) by auto powertrain manufacturers in india. In addition, connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies have seen rapid development in recent years and bring with them the potential to significantly impact vehicle energy consumption. This dissertation studies predictive control methods for PHEV powertrains that are enabled by CAV technologies with the goal of reducing vehicle energy consumption. First, a real-time predictive powertrain controller for PHEV energy management is developed. This controller utilizes predictions of future vehicle velocity and power demand in order to optimize powersplit decisions of the vehicle. This predictive powertrain controller utilizes nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) to perform this optimization while being cognizant of future vehicle behavior.
The current generation of electric vehicles is characterized by increasing market growth. Factors like customer behavior, infrastructure, new competitors, and technological improvements lead to high demand uncertainties and volatile volume forecasts. In line with the changing market environment, there is a change in the supply chain regarding purchased components, suppliers, and market power. The changed supply chain structure and market uncertainties cause significant challenges for automobile manufacturers in the capacity and flexibility planning of their changeable production systems and supply chains. This paper presents a novel capacity planning process for changeable production systems and supply chains. The capacity planning approach presented in this paper addresses the application of a simulation as the basis of a decision support system to improve capacity planning in an uncertain market environment.
