Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will play a major role in achieving future vehicle fleet targets for emissions such as CO2, NOx, and particulate matter....
FEV continues to maintain a global leadership position in benchmarking of transmissions. In the early years FEV’s transmission benchmarking was focused on 5-6 speed...
The European Union's Horizon 2020 research project will develop, validate and publish a recommendation for standardisation of model interfaces for common e-drive components, and...
The issue of lightweight construction is becoming more important in all areas of the automobile industry. In future car body construction, aluminum materials are...
Terrestrial vehicles—and passenger cars, in particular—are among the most complex products to be developed, validated, certified, and serviced. This combination of different factors makes...
The environmental benefits of electric cars have been constantly criticized, whether it’s talk of notional charging using CO2-intensive brown-coal power or battery manufacturing...
Today’s state-of-the-art, automated gear set synthesis for planetary structures showed solutions with which big leaps forward in terms of effort vs. degree of...
Further potential for reducing real-world consumption can also be found in heavily electrified or even all-electric vehicles. High levels of automation have proven...