Automobile manufacturers are facing rising costs for recall actions. A large part of these costs stems from faulty software, and the need to fix it. An obvious step, therefore, is to use a mobile ...
Digital transformation does not stop short of automobile industry. The connectivity of the passenger cars with smartphones and their apps not only modifies processes and business models but also ...
The global trends of urbanisation, modularisation, electrification and higher levels of automation offer the opportunity to systematically develop innovative vehicle concepts and bodies with new ...
Connectivity and the Internet of Things are opening up new ways of gathering and exploiting vehicle operating data. As part of an interdisciplinary project, TU Darmstadt is leveraging big data to ...
Larger and more densely populated urban areas are causing new challenges to mobility systems in terms of congestion as well as pollutant and noise emissions. Considering these challenges, the ...
The growing demand for electrified vehicles with differing requirements in terms of efficiency, costs and performance is creating a huge variety of possible drive topologies. IAV has introduced in ...
New requirements and restrictions, but also degrees of freedom for vehicle concepts have resulted as part of electric mobility. New development approaches as well as a holistic consideration of the ...
In the future, vehicles will have to meet urban electric mobility demands while satisfying additional transportation tasks. ZF developed the Intelligent Rolling Chassis (IRC) for this vehicle ...
Dual-clutch transmissions are compelling predominantly because of their sporty direct shifting. ZF demonstrates how clearly this technology also signifies efficiency and functionality gains with the ...
A new rear axle system should rival the traditional multi-link rear suspension and short-long arm rear axle designs with regard to the performance required. A modular rear axle that combines high ...
Performance alone has not shaped the driveline configurations of today or likely those of tomorrow. Ongoing technology advancements place a higher premium on communication bandwidth and collaboration ...
Jacobs Vehicle Systems has developed a decompression brake for commercial vehicle engines based on the two-stroke principle. Vehicle tests have demonstrated that it more than doubles engine braking ...
Short development cycles, a great diversity of variants, increasing complexity of the systems themselves and continually rising levels of interlinking them are leading to a significantly higher ...
The project experience collected by FEV shows that the Open Service Cloud has the potential to drive open innovation, independent of the underlying platform and vehicle brand. For the idea and ...
In the commercial vehicles segment the potentials from combustion engines to reduce consumption are largely exhausted. Further improvements involve high investments and risks on the manufacturer ...
Future chassis strategies are based on a few high-volume platforms that are used for a wide range of vehicle models with kinematic variants and different axle loads. TRW Linkage & Suspension (now ...
Transmissions for hybrid powertrains in which the electric motor is integrated as part of the transmission will become increasingly widespread in the future. In order to make use of their functional ...
Within the MultiKab research project, a multi-material systems suitable for the mass production of complex multi-material, structurally durable commercial vehicle components was developed. The ...
Since years the number of people died in traffic is decreasing, advanced driver assistance systems can lead to an active avoidance of additional accidents. The superordinate question to be ...
Especially as a front-wheel drive, dual-clutch transmissions have to be very compact and efficient to generate driving pleasure. Therefore, Hyundai-Kia developed a seven-speed dual-clutch ...
For defining CV power trains in on- and off-road commercial vehicles which are an optimum for the whole system it is necessary to improve all components in a system and not one for each other. ...
Enabled by IT and digital technologies like connectivity systems and artificial intelligence, autonomously driving vehicles will be on the streets within upcoming years. Endangered in their leading ...
