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The Road to Roewe Ricardo Engineering and the Chinese Auto Industry 9547 Engine Ad 26/1/07 15:17 Page 1 Q2, 2007 Q2, RIcardo QuaRteRly Review Dodge Viper Interviews Ricardo helps iconic Shigeo Mizuno, sports car to 600 hp Mazda Motor Corporation Diesel combustion Heavy-duty General Motors and Ricardo economics keep it clean Total cost programme means stable business for truckmakers The Road To Roewe Ricardo engineering and the Chinese auto industry 9547 engine ad 26/1/07 15:17 Page 1 The world’s fastest diesel engine 350.092mph/563.418kph Bonneville Salt Flats USA – August 2006 Designed specifically for off-highway equipment, the JCB Dieselmax engine is proven in tens of thousands of installations throughout the world – from off-highway vehicles to generators, water pumps to auxiliary engines in commercial vehicles, from Zone II flame- protected environments to marine applications. Built using the most advanced technology available, the JCB Dieselmax is tomorrow’s engine, today: • Power (63kW/84hp to 120kW/161hp), reliability and low noise • Tested in extreme conditions from -40°C to 50°C • Maximum performance with unmatched high torque at low speed • Holder of the world land speed record for diesel cars • Advanced combustion system ensures Stage 3/Tier 3 compliance – 350.092mph/563.418kph • Future Stage 4/Tier 4 compliance is built into engine design • Worldwide service and support network For further information call us today on +44 (0)1283 584250, or visit www.jcbpowersystems.com contents Ricardo Quarterly Review Q2, 2007 16 06 14 08 news features 04 Industry news 08 The road to Roewe Next-generation hybrids at the Geneva show; Europe Ricardo has provided the nucleus for a new world-class searches for CO2 answers; North America faces emissions product development organisation for one of China’s leading legislation shift; GM presents advanced clean diesel for automakers. Anthony Smith gives the inside story of SAIC Cadillac Motor Co and its range of forthcoming products 24 Ricardo news 14 Total cost of ownership Dieselmax record-breaking team honoured; new IT director The truck market is notorious for its cyclical swings for Ricardo; Indian software customer service enhanced; – so Ricardo Strategic Consulting has come up with an Ricardo hybrid taxi does New York duty imaginative template to capture profitable downstream revenues for the years beyond the warranty period questions and answers 16 More venom for the Viper 06 Shigeo Mizuno Dodge’s iconic big-bore sports car hits the 600 hp mark for Shigeo Mizuno is programme manager for the new Mazda2 2008 – thanks to the innovative CamInCam® concept and the hatchback. Tony Lewin spoke to him at the car’s unveiling at expertise of the Chrysler-Ricardo engineering team. Jeremy the Geneva motor show Burne has the inside track 22 Diesel combustion control With the ultra-low emissions of next-generation diesel engines needing to be sustained over extended mileages, GM has joined with Ricardo to develop engine management systems capable of compensating for both production variability and component ageing. Anthony Smith reports Head office: 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, Eva Kellershof, Ricardo contacts and locations: Sebastian Feldmann 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 Next- generation hybrids roll in oth Toyota and BHonda revealed new hybrid designs at this year’s Geneva motor show, though neither company was willing to discuss the key technical details that will allow these next-generation hybrids to perform better Hybrid X concept from than their predecessors and Toyota seeks to establish a European address a wider market through visual identity for hybrids lower manufacturing costs. automakers face Instead, Toyota’s Hybrid X concept study than an engineering exercise, CO2 impasse seeks to establish a visual identity for though its aerodynamic shape and eading car producers across Europe the company’s hybrid vehicles, building unfashionably narrow wheels do hint at Lare still assessing the likely impact of on the arched cabin profile of the a serious attempt to minimise drag. the European Commission’s proposal to current Prius. The concept is fractionally Honda has said that it will launch two introduce a legally-binding fleet average longer but considerably wider than full hybrid models in 2009, the first a CO2 emissions limit of 120 g/km by 2012. the Prius, though its very long “open dedicated full hybrid family vehicle built While many details of the proposals space” passenger compartment at a rate of 200,000 a year, the second have yet to be clarified, including the indicates that the packaging of the a sporty coupé that recreates the ethos extension to 130 g/km allowed because of mechanical elements – engine, of the CRX. The four-metre Geneva an increased use of biofuels, carmakers transmission, battery – may have been show concept, says Honda, does not have already made clear that the thoroughly revised. anticipate the shape of the production proposed limits are unrealistic. Speaking to members of the Though Toyota denies that this is the car; CEO Takeo Fukui took care to European Parliament in Brussels, Sergio Prius replacement, there can be little restate Honda’s belief that hybrid Marchionne, CEO of Fiat as well as head doubt that the eventual production car technology is best suited to small cars. of the automakers association ACEA, said will show a strong resemblance – and A third hybrid prototype to debut was the industry “fully supported” the EU Toyota has hinted that substantial Kia’s Rio, which adds a 12 kW electric objective of reducing emissions to improvements can be expected in motor and CVT transmission to the 120 g/km by 2012. the cost of next-generation hybrid standard 1.4 litre gasoline engine. Four However, added Marchionne, vehicle- powertrains. thousand units will be tested under a based solutions alone could not solve Honda, too, concedes that its Small Korean government scheme, says Kia. the CO2 problem: “Further cost-effective Hybrid Sports is more of a design contributions can only be made when the on-going technological improvements of this industry are complemented by other measures: improving traffic management, adjusting infrastructure, increasing the use and availability of alternative fuels, changing driving behaviour and influencing consumer demand through taxation.” The EU proposals put the burden on cars, said Marchionne, when an integrated approach was the only solution: “It is prohibitively expensive to achieve a target of 130 g/km through vehicle technology only, and it is unrealistic to believe this can be done by 2012,” he stated. Subaru’s diesel first GM awards lithium contracts Hybrid Volvo truck starts work Fuji Heavy Industries has General Motors has selected Volvo is aiming for fuel savings developed the world’s first two suppliers to design and of up to 30 per cent for two horizontally-opposed turbo test lithium-ion batteries for experimental hybrid-drive diesel (right) for a passenger the plug-in hybrid version of refuse-collection trucks that will car. Due to reach the European the Saturn Vue Green Line begin operation in Sweden early market in 2008, the Boxer diesel – Johnson Controls/Saft and next year. The trucks’ frequent does without a balancer shaft Cobaysis, partnered with starts and stops make them most News in brief in News and retains its compactness. A123Systems. suitable for hybrid operation. RICARDo QUARTERLY ReVIEW • Q2, 2007 RIcardo Change of climate in QuaRteRly US environment Review hat promises to be a significant that it would cost them $100 billion and The task of RQ is to highlight the latest W shift in North American attitudes add a premium of $1900 for light trucks thinking in automotive engineering and to climate change has been signalled in and $1400 for cars. The plan called technology worldwide – both within a decision by an unlikely institution – the for an average four per cent annual Ricardo and among other leading companies. By presenting an up-to-date US Supreme Court. improvement in fuel economy to 2017. mix of news, profiles and interviews Ruling by a 5-4 majority in April, the Now, however, the EPA could be open with top business leaders we paint an Supreme Court decided that the US to a legal challenge forcing it to address interesting and exciting picture of R&D Environmental Protection Agency, a global warming by imposing carbon activity at a world-class automotive government department, had given no emission limits for new vehicles. The engineering services provider. reasoned explanation for its failure to move could open up the US market to It is a formula that has certainly been a hit with the worldwide automotive regulate CO2 emissions from cars and the type of mandatory CO2 standards at community: in the five years since RQ trucks. present being discussed in Europe. was launched we have had to increase The ruling means that the EPA will In Congress the head of the our print run to 14,000 copies to keep pace now be permitted to set limits on the Senate Environment Committee, with the demand to read about Ricardo emission of greenhouse gases from Barbara Boxer, called on the Bush and its activities. new light vehicles. This, say political administration to immediately act to Client confidentiality is of the utmost commentators, will increase the reduce greenhouse gas emissions importance to Ricardo, which means that we can only report on a small fraction pressure on the Bush administration from automobiles. of the work carried out by the company. to drop its long-held policy of refusing California governor Arnold So we are especially grateful to those to consider legislation imposing Schwarzenegger, meanwhile, Ricardo customers who have kindly mandatory CO2 limits on the auto has threatened to sue the Federal agreed to co-operate with RQ and allow industry.
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