Intelligent EV battery pack design for better range
KPIT’s Naveen Manuel explains how OEMs can improve EV performance by leveraging an optimized battery pack with the appropriate cell chemistry.
Electric Mobility
Agile powertrain engineering: maintaining quality in the face of increasing complexity
MAHLE Powertrain’s Tom Brooks and Gordon Kennedy explain how MApps, the general data processing toolset, helps deliver customer benefits in the field of vehicle calibration.
Scaling up virtual ECU testing and validation
AVL experts explain how virtual MiL and SiL integration environments can replace traditional vehicle integration and HiL tests.
Effective battery optimisation through detailed electro-thermal modelling and simulation
MAHLE Powertrain’s James Miller and Owain Parry discuss the company’s comprehensive analysis and validation approach to help customers define and quickly appraise new battery design concepts.
Test approaches for eDrive
Jan Schwarz of dSPACE explains how to test complex, high frequency and voltage controllers and provides insight into how major engineering companies verify and validate.
Vehicle battery test centers: what we have learned so far
FEV’s Walid Baroud explains what the company has learned on its 15-year journey to becoming one of the world’s leading battery test system integrators.
How to assess ride comfort and handling objectively
AVL experts present a series of tools that help OEMs and their suppliers achieve consumer acceptance and excitement in the areas of vehicle handling and ride comfort.
Advanced OBD development methodologies to meet Euro7/VII
AVL experts present a methodic HiL/SiL environment approach to managing future legislative challenges such as EU7 and complex systems like PHEV.
Prismatic, pouch or cylindric? A pack design study
AVL’s Jürgen Schneider and Dr Jan Richter of Batemo explain how to balance trade-offs and cope with high levels of complexity through early-stage development methods that utilise extensive battery pack design studies.
Unleashing the potential of lightweight construction by using appropriate connections between composite materials and metals
Tobias Speth and Sebastian Klein explain how the combination of composite materials with metal parts can be enabled by increasing the static friction coefficient.
Next-generation aluminium EV battery enclosure solutions
Experts from Novelis discuss innovations in the engineering of aluminium sheet intensive EV battery enclosures.
Enabling e-mobility by design: combining material and dispensing equipment for future mobility applications
Dow and bdtronic discuss how the right dispensing equipment applying the very best material science can make all the difference to the production line and production time.
Expediting e-powertrain durability testing with artificial intelligence
AVL’s Matthieu Clauet and Hongbo Sun explain customer pain points during the durability testing process and how to achieve optimum validation and development results using AI.
(Future) passenger car interior concepts
BASF’s Mark Staniford explains how the change of mobility will affect the car’s interior and compares today’s necessities with those of the future.
High-strength aluminum applications for a battery electric SUV: the B-pillar example
Mark White, Thorolf Schulte, and Jean-Philippe Masse discuss Alumobility’s latest aluminum auto body sheet study and how an aluminum b-pillar can save significant weight in a battery electric SUV.
A battery cell format comparison: prismatic, pouch or cylindric?
Experts from AVL and Batemo deliver a technical deep dive on the pros and cons of different EV battery formats and shares insight from opening and physically modelling a large variety of automotive cells.
How to meet future vehicle NVH requirements
BASF’s Marc Ingelmann and Mark Staniford explain how OEMs can reduce airborne and structure-borne vehicle noise using optimum material combinations and innovative NVH solutions.
Legacy software maintenance as a service in the era of electric mobility
KPIT’s Sandeep Agarwal and Ashish Lodhi explain how OEMs can focus on new technologies by migrating the software maintenance of legacy powertrain products.
Increasing EV battery pack safety with multi-functional venting units
MANN+HUMMEL’s Dr Michael Harenbrock explains how to reduce the risk of EV battery fires and comply with new safety regulations.
Digital transformation in simulation and test factories – what are the key levers?
AVL experts discuss digital transformation trends and initiatives for simulation and test factories, focusing on critical success criteria beyond tools.