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Q1, 2008 Q1, RicaRdo QuaRteRly Review winds of Change Ricardo helps develop next-generation wind energy technology India opens up: SIAM outlook for Indian auto industry New Ricardo office Hybrids: Why an all new development process is needed Biofuels: Why automakers should be concerned Interview: Dr HS Lee, president, R&D, Hyundai Contents Ricardo Quarterly Review Q1, 2008 08 14 06 20 news features 04 Industry news 08 Wind power: the next generation Detroit’s green agenda; Land Rover diesel hybrid, Ford’s Wind power may be a renewable source of energy, but the downsized SUV; Chrysler’s concepts; Tata launches weather is rarely predictable. Ricardo has been assisting People’s Car in New Delhi; supersports cars go diesel General Compression on novel technology which allows energy to be harvested and stored for periods of peak 30 Ricardo news demand. Anthony Smith reports AFS Trinity Extreme HybridTM demonstrator completed in fi ve months; cost-reduction co-operation on lithium-ion batteries; 17 Ricardo India Ricardo wins motorsport export award; US manufacturing As Ricardo inaugurates its India division, we take a close look collaboration; clean diesel breakthrough at the Indian automotive scene and the fresh way of doing business that the new organisation will usher in questions and answers 20 The challenge of biofuels 06 HS Lee, head of R&D at Hyundai-Kia Once seen as the answer to the world’s environmental President of corporate R&D at increasingly successful Korean problems, biofuels are coming under increasing scrutiny automaker Hyundai-Kia Automotive, HS Lee tells Tony Lewin for their well-to-wheels performance and possible adverse about hybrids, fuel cell vehicles, CO2 saving – and the launch effects on engine durability. Jesse Crosse speaks to Ricardo’s of the group’s luxury Genesis series experts in the fi eld 14 Dilip Chenoy, SIAM 26 Hybrid vehicle development The Director General of the Society of Indian Automotive The step-change in systems integration that comes with hybrid Manufacturers is presiding over an unprecedented boom in and energy-effi cient vehicles means a fundamental rethink India’s auto industry. We hear his views on today’s successes of the way we develop our vehicles. Andy Chien of Ricardo – including the Tata Nano – and India’s prospects for the future Strategic consulting anticipates a revolution in the making Head offi ce: Conceived and produced for Ricardo by: Ricardo plc, Shoreham-by-Sea, TwoTone Media Ltd West Sussex, BN43 5FG, Editor: Tony Lewin United Kingdom Contributors: Tel: +44 (0)1273 455611 Mark Roberts, Anthony Smith, Ricardo contacts and locations: Jesse Crosse, Andy Chien www.ricardo.com/contacts TwoTone Media Ltd contacts: RQ subscriptions: www.ricardo.com/rq Anthony Smith: [email protected] Sales enquiries: [email protected] Tony Lewin: [email protected] Industry News Land Rover LRX (left), Cadillac Provoq (below) and Ford Explorer America (above) all caught Detroit’s green mood. Detroit’s green agenda etroit 2008 could go down in claiming enhanced off- Dhistory as the event where North road performance as America at last showed it was taking well as the potential for energy saving – and even climate 120 g/km CO2 emissions. be many years change – seriously. Production is likely early before the fuel cell Hybrids were on everyone’s stands, next decade, assuming powertrain makes it into many of them volume production Land Rover’s new owners production, but the smaller models; downsizing was much in approve the programme. and lighter unitary platform evidence, with GM showing a fuel Ford’s Explorer America concept offers useful downsizing of dimensions cell Cadillac and cancelling a V8 sought to redefi ne the iconic SUV, and consumption and will be in the programme, and even Hummer was ditching the big V8 and weighty ladder showrooms – with gasoline power lured into the green camp with a bio- frame chassis for a two litre, four – next year. fuelled concept. cylinder EcoBoost motor and car-like However, just to prove business Notable, too, was the advance of eco unitary construction, giving a projected as usual continues in Detroit, Ford thinking into the gas-guzzling world of 30 per cent fuel saving. unwrapped a fresh V8 F150 pickup, the SUV. Land Rover struck the perfect Premium nameplate Cadillac took Chrysler showed its big bold new Ram note with its smaller, lighter LRX concept, two major steps forward with its pickup and Chevrolet revealed its most its combined electric and diesel drive Provoq, another crossover SUV. It will powerful Corvette ever. Chrysler shows eco concepts ewly independent Chrysler LLC Nshowed an eco-minded concept for each of its three brands. Jeep’s Renegade is electric, with a Bluetec diesel engine as a range extender, the Chrysler ecoVoyager (right) is a roomy electric people carrier with its batteries topped up by a fuel cell, while the all- electric Dodge Zeo is a sporty 2+2 coupe with a claimed range of 400 km. BMW joins DCT set Ford: hybrids to make money Ferrari burns ethanol Go-it-alone hybrid The new M3 convertible is the Ford’s hybrid vehicle operations Surprising the crowds at Detroit Ex-Aston Martin and BMW fi rst BMW model to feature the will move into profi t by the end was a Ferrari F430 Spider tuned designer Henrik Fisker has company’s new M Double Clutch of 2008, according to Nancy to run on E85 bioethanol. Race- developed a pure electric luxury Transmission. The seven speed Gioia, director of sustainable derived modifi cations to the fuel sports coupé for his California gearbox has six different shift technologies. The company has feed and engine management organisation Fisker Automotive. programs, allowing the driver to reduced the cost of hybrids by systems allow the engine to The Karma claims 0-100 km/h in News in brief in News fi ne-tune the change. about 30 per cent since 2004. produce an extra 10 hp. 5.8 seconds. 4 RICARDO QUARTERLY REVIEW • Q1, 2008 RICARDO $2500 People’s Car QUARTERLY stuns auto industry REVIEW erhaps for the fi rst time ever, equipment levels, weighs just 580 kg The task of RQ is to highlight the latest Pthe world car business turned – enabling it to claim 5 litres per 100 thinking in automotive engineering and its focus on New Delhi in January km consumption. The gasoline version technology worldwide – both within for the presentation of Tata’s long- meets Euro 4 emissions standards as Ricardo and among other leading companies. By presenting an up-to-date awaited People’s Car. Priced at $2500, well as local Indian crash safety norms. mix of news, profi les and interviews a fi gure many analysts said would be Tata is working on a diesel version with top business leaders we paint an impossible to achieve, the four-seater as well as better-equipped, more interesting and exciting picture of R&D Nano has a rear-mounted twin-cylinder expensive editions for export. These activity at a world-class automotive gasoline engine and CVT transmission. will have airbags and other safety engineering services provider. The four-door hatchback runs on tiny features not required for the Indian It is a formula that has certainly been a hit with the worldwide automotive 12-inch wheels and, market. Tata Motors sees an community: in the fi ve years since RQ thanks to eventual volume of one was launched we have had to increase simplifi ed million units a year. our print run to 14,000 copies to keep pace with the demand to read about Ricardo and its activities. Client confi dentiality is of the utmost importance to Ricardo, which means that we can only report on a small fraction of the work carried out by the company. So we are especially grateful to those Ricardo customers who have kindly agreed to co-operate with RQ and allow their programmes to be highlighted in print: without such help from customers it would not be possible to present such a fascinating insight into the way vehicles are conceived and developed. uses spark ignition only for start-up and concept combines a lithium-ion battery Technology trends under full load. with a 120 kW electric motor and a 1.3 litre n what has been a remarkable few GM and Volkswagen have also shown diesel engine to give a range of 55 km in Imonths for engineering innovations, combined consumption systems, allowing zero-emission electric mode before the new combustion systems and plug-in gasoline-type engines to use compression combustion engine has to be fi red up. Audi’s hybrids have emerged as important trends ignition under certain conditions; further Metroproject quattro will be the basis for the approaching production feasibility. away is VW’s CCS, which runs on special new A1 small car, the Tokyo show concept Mercedes-Benz claims a 127 g/km CO2 synthetic fuel for very low emissions. being a through-the-road hybrid with a emissions fi gure for its DiesOtto engine in Detroit saw the second showing of GM’s conventional 1.4 litre gasoline drivetrain at the S-Class-sized F700 concept car: the 1.8 Flextreme plug-in hybrid proposal, this the front and a 30 kW electric motor driving litre four-cylinder unit runs on gasoline but time wearing the US Saturn badge. The the rear wheels. Supersports cars go diesel ne trend, two extremes: Audi has created the world’s Ofi rst diesel-engined supercar by installing its race-inspired V12 diesel into the R8 two-seater (far right), while Mitsubishi’s Concept RA (right), despite its mid- engined looks, uses the new Lancer four wheel drive platform with the 2.2 litre clean diesel mounted up front.
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