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A New Dimension Ricardo Quarterly Review Q1 2017 Interview Shinichi Kiga, Nissan’s variable-compression expert Nanoparticles Ricardo research shows particle emissions challenge A focus on the latest in technology, innovation and sustainability with gasoline engines too Lightweighting Ricardo ULTRAN rear drive unit: 24 percent lighter, just as efficient Ricardo Design A NEW DIMENSION Having acquired a top Italian industrial and motorcycle design group, Ricardo can now provide a fully integrated product creation service from first concepts to final production sign-off Successful product development needs hands-on engine design Ricardo o ers support in world-leading engine design, analysis and development More than 100 years of experience and research in engine design makes the Ricardo engineering team a powerful ally at all stages of product development: • Clean sheet product speci cation, • Functional and product validation • Experience across all engine applications: design and development through testing programmes delivered Range extender to production • Working together as a coherent team Motorcycle • Detailed investigative analysis with exible working solutions to Passenger car to support design and validation integrate your team with ours Commercial O - h i g h w a y • Design released directly into your • Warranty management Power generation own engineering systems and issue resolution Marine • Development for class-leading sound and vibration attributes Find out how Ricardo can help deliver your product development Email: [email protected] Tel: (UK) +44 (0)1273 455611 Copyright © Ricardo plc | V1 16K U Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology www.ricardo.com 11 COntEntS Ricardo Quarterly Review • Q1 2017 NEWS FEATURES Industry news ..................04 Nanoparticles: how Geneva show power struggle; electric 08 Bentley, new Range Rover Velar; McLaren’s small can you go? ..........11 In the urban air quality debate attention new Super Series 720S; hydrogen comes is now extending to include the tiniest closer, Volvo’s safety boost; net tightens particles, significantly below the threshold of around diesel current regulation. Ricardo is spearheading vital research in this area as well as helping RQ viewpoint ....................07 industry comply with existing and future Mark Barge regulation, as Anthony Smith reports The MD of Ricardo Performance Products on achieving critical mass in high- precision manufacturing – for McLaren, New dimension Bugatti, Aston Martin Red Bull and more in design..............................16 Following the acquisition of a top Italian industrial and motorcycle design operation, Ricardo news ....................24 Ricardo can now provide a fully integrated Collaboration with McLaren and BMW on product creation service from first concepts advanced combustion; Ford Focus RS wins to final production sign-off. This, as Tony Wards 10 Best Engines; Humvee stability Lewin reports, signifies a strategic expansion solutions; Ricardo partners Aston Martin Red beyond engineering and technology to Bull for AM-RB 001 Valkyrie hypercar become a provider of complete products Q & A Driveline lightweighting........22 Led by Jaguar Land Rover, the ULTRAN Shinichi Kiga, project has produced an advanced rear drive Nissan group ....................08 unit, designed and prototyped by Ricardo, The frontman for Nissan-Infiniti’s bold which offers a 24 percent reduction in step into variable compression engines mass without compromising performance. speaks to Ian Adcock about the new Anthony Smith reports 22 technology’s potential Ricardo patent pending. Ricardo Background All IP. rights reserved. Ricardo contacts and locations: The task of RQ is to highlight Client confidentiality is of the utmost importance www.ricardo.com/contacts the latest thinking in global to Ricardo, which means that we can only report RQ subscriptions: engineering and technology in the on a small fraction of the work carried out by the www.ricardo.com/rq transportation and clean energy company. So we are especially grateful to those Sales enquiries: sectors and related industries. Ricardo customers who have kindly agreed to [email protected] We aim to achieve this by presenting an up-to- co-operate with RQ and allow their programmes Head office: date mix of news, profiles and interviews with top to be highlighted in print: without such help from Ricardo plc, Shoreham-by-Sea Conceived and produced West Sussex BN43 5FG for Ricardo by: business leaders, as well as in-depth features on customers it would not be possible to present such United Kingdom TwoTone Media Ltd programmes – both from within Ricardo and other a fascinating insight into the development of new Tel: +44 (0)1273 455611 Editor: Tony Lewin leading companies. products, technologies and innovations. Contributors: Anthony Smith, Ian Adcock TwoTone Media Ltd contacts: RQ magazine is printed on paper Anthony Smith: [email protected] certified as being in compliance with the environmental and Tony Lewin: [email protected] social standards of the Forest Stewardship Council ®. Industry News IndUStry NEWS The latest in technology, innovation and sustainability across world industries Peugeot 3008 crossover and displayed a range of concept models. While the Citroën C-Aircross was the barely disguised replacement for the C3 Picasso mini- crossover, more notable was Peugeot’s Instinct concept (pictured). Intended as a vision of a 2025-style shooting brake four-seater, the Instinct’s two autonomous modes include ‘sharp’, where travel is more rapid and presumably less smooth; its highly connected interior features 3D holographic displays and seats that recline, hammock style, under automated driving; active aerodynamics ensure maximum energy efficiency. Bentley, too, put in its bid for zero- emission superluxury stardom with its EXP 12 Speed 6e all-electric two-seater sports car concept; few technical details were given apart from built-in inductive charging and Peugeot Instinct the impressive boast of going from London concept is a Gran to Milan or Monaco on a single charge. Turismo focusing on Important new mainstream car launches 2025, while Bentley’s included the Volvo XC60, Range Rover Velar, Hp versus kW all-electric EXP 12 Ford Fiesta, SEAT Ibiza, Opel Crossland X Speed 6e concept As is so often the case, Geneva lived up to 800 hp, McLaren’s new 720 S has 720 and (below) targets and Volkswagen Arteon, a fastback sedan its glamorous reputation by playing host Porsche’s Panamera hybrid – now with a London to Monaco on positioned above the Passat and thus to the latest round in the upcoming auto sportswagon body option – is the marque’s a single charge becoming the company’s European flagship. industry power struggle – the technology most powerful model at 680 hp. Its arrival, inflection point which sees traditional along with that of the four-door Mercedes supercars with highly tuned combustion AMG GT Concept, could be seen as ushering engines square up to their aspiring rivals in an era where 500-odd hp, whether boasting huge kilowatt counts from often from hybrid or combustion power alone, sketchily specified battery and electric has become the minimum amount for a motor combinations. respectable premium range flagship. With the 1000 hp barrier breached long But, these distractions aside, the show ago by specialist extreme sportscar makers belonged to the PSA Group. Already on a such as Sweden’s Köenigsegg, it was left high following its takeover of Opel-Vauxhall, to the big-name brands to play catch-up: formalized the day before, PSA grabbed Ferrari’s aptly-titled 812 Superfast claims the European Car of the Year title with its Has downsizing passed its peak? Volkswagen, now the world’s largest automaker, will not develop gasoline engines smaller than its current 1.0 litre three-cylinder, nor diesels below 1.6 litres. Brand head Herbert Diess cited the advent of Real Driving Emissions (RDE) standards for the move, noting that the disparity between RDE and current lab tests was greatest in Germany, where just 9-10 kW was required for the test but some 100 kW to drive at 200 km/h on the autobahn. This year’s new Polo range would include a diesel option, Diess said, but its replacement probably would not. Toyota is claiming improved performance, consumption and emissions for its new 1.5 litre gasoline engine in the Yaris, which replaces a smaller 1.33 litre unit. Ford’s new Fiesta uses a powerful 200 hp iteration of the EcoBoost 1.5 litre three for its sports ST version, while premium models are seeing smaller combustion engines linked with 48-volt hybridization – evidence, perhaps, that downsizing works best when a surplus of power is available. 4 RQ • Q1 • 2017 Industry News NEWS IN BRIEF Highlighting the latest thinking in automotive Geneva’s engineering and technology worldwide wilder side Formula E powertrain Extremes of speed and power have long now with active aerodynamics, offers Two concept models at the Geneva show made use of electric been associated with the Geneva motor 631 hp, somewhat behind the new – and powertrains drawn from the current Formula E race series. show, and 2017, with the debut of all-new lighter – €2 million Pagani Huayra roadster Singapore’s Vanda uses this driveline as a temporary measure models from Ferrari and McLaren, did not at 745 hp. Completing the exotic pack were pending the arrival of its definitive powertrain, while at the disappoint. oriental optimists Vanda Dendrobium with opposite end of the scale Renault’s
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