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Proactive Magazine proActive The official e-magazine of Lotus Engineering ISSUE 41 | SUMMER 2011 INTERVIEW WITH BOB LUTZ RANGE EXTENDER ENGINE – CONCEPT TO PRODUCTION ACTIVE VALVE TRAIN GOES HIGH SPEED SAFETY FIRST WITH HYBRID AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR GREBE - GM POWERTRAIN IMPACT OF HUB MOTORS ON DRIVING DYNAMICS - PART 2 proActive CONTENTS WELCOME INDUSTRY NEWS 03-05 > I am sure that you are all aware and continue to deliver world JUST-AUTO EDITOR DAVE LEGGETT REVIEWS SOME OF THE LAST of the significant changes class engineering projects like the QUARTER’S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS that Lotus is going through to 102EX Rolls Royce Phantom, it is grow its leading position in necessary for us to make some LOTUS NEWS 06-12 > the high value segment of the changes to our organisation. automotive industry. LOTUS LEGENDS UNVEIL NEW HETHEL TRACK As from mid 2011 Lotus LOTUS CARS LIMITED SIGNS A SYNDICATED FINANCING FACILITY Lotus Engineering continues Engineering will focus entirely WITH SIX FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS to perform strongly, despite on external 3rd party customers. LOTUS CARS AND NAOMI CAMPBELL REUNITE FOR JAPAN the previous difficult economic This will ensure that we can fully climate, ending the last concentrate on developing 3rd LOTUS IS COMING TO CHINA financial year in a very strong party client business and expand SOMETHING FROM THE WEEKEND position – both financially and into new areas of technology TEAM LOTUS TYPE 79S BLACK ON TRACK operationally. Profits exceeded and partnerships where Lotus target more than 3 fold and staff Engineering can apply its strong In its new guise Lotus numbers increased by 20%. engineering and technical BOB LUTZ INTERVIEW 13-19 > Engineering will continue to Our key offerings in exciting expertise. develop its global engineering RANGE EXTENDER ENGINE – CONCEPT TO PRODUCTION 20-23 > niche vehicles, lightweight footprint and will continue architectures and processes, Our latest projects continue ACTIVE VALVE TRAIN GOES HIGH SPEED 24-26 > to stand for clever, bright driving dynamics, high power to progress with the Fagor engineering solutions at an SAFETY FIRST WITH HYBRID AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES 27-28 > density, low CO2 engines and Ederlan Range Extender engine affordable price, a reputation hybrid and electric vehicles are completing its mechanical INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR GREBE - GM POWERTRAIN 29-30 > for delivery and transparent increasingly attractive in the development phase in September partnerships with its clients. > THE IMPACT OF HUB MOTORS ON DRIVING DYNAMICS: PART 2 31-38 > marketplace and are helping this year – from which point it Lotus Engineering enhance its will commence vehicle trials and global reputation for engineering client in-vehicle development Mark James excellence and to grow programmes. And the series Director of Lotus Engineering significantly. hybrid Evora 414Evolution development programme is To continue to build on recent gaining pace with a drivable successes in Lotus Engineering vehicle ready early next year. proActive INDUSTRY NEWS JUST-AUTO EDITOR DAVE LEGGETT REVIEWS SOME OF THE LAST QUARTER’S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS NORWAY: Postal service orders CHINA: Valeo starts new JAPAN: Analysts cut profit CHINA: Dana starts on tech SWEDEN: Saab production Ford’s Transit Connect electric electronics centre/wiper forecasts in wake of disaster centre disrupted as suppliers not paid van systems plant As well as the enormous human Dana is another Tier 1 on At the end of March Saab starts Norwegian Post becomes the Valeo steps up its R&D cost, the March 11 earthquake the China value-added bus. to experience difficulties with first European customer of the presence in China with a ‘global and tsunami in Japan wreaks Dana announces it has broken suppliers that disrupt production. Ford Transit Connect Electric, electronics expertise centre’ in havoc on the auto industry in ground for a technical centre Once it becomes known that you ordering 20 units. The all-electric Shenzhen. the second quarter as its effects in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, for off have cash-flow problems, the van has a target range of up to on automotive supply chains highway axles, driveshafts, and situation can worsen as more 130km (about 85 miles) and is The new electronics centre, gradually become known. It transmissions; commercial suppliers demand things like considered ideal for fleet owners which will employ more than 100 becomes clear that the effects vehicle driveshafts; light duty up-front payment. Things are still with well-defined routes. engineers by the end of the year of supply chain disruption on axles and driveshafts; and not resolved three months later... and 200 by 2015, will develop OEMs and suppliers around the sealing and thermal products, Read more Read more electronic hardware services world will last for many months including electric vehicle battery for all Valeo Group entities. It to come. coolers. The centre is expected will also play a major role in the to be fully operational by the end Read more future development of electronic of 2011. components for electric vehicles. JAPAN ‘QUAKE: Key Read more Read more components supply-chain disruption to worsen – IHS Automotive Read more 3 proActive INDUSTRY NEWS JUST-AUTO EDITOR DAVE LEGGETT REVIEWS SOME OF THE LAST QUARTER’S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS US: Toyota Prius reaches 1m US FRANCE: Pelata resigns COO FRANCE: Renault appoints SHANGHAI: Brilliance BMW 5 SHANGHAI: Audi Q3 freewheels milestone as hybrid sales climb post as Renault turns “painful Carlos Tavares as new COO hybrid gets production green into the limelight leaf” light Toyota reveals that it has sold its Renault has unveiled Carlos At the Shanghai Show, Audi millionth Prius hybrid in the US, There’s a bit of spin at work Tavares as its new chief Also at Shanghai, BMW confirms reveals that the compact Q3 SUV six months after global sales of over at Renault following the operating officer following the that it will start production of will be the first Audi to feature the world’s first mass-produced huge corporate embarrassment resignation of Patrick Pelata as a plug in hybrid version of its 5 ‘disconnect coasting’ - a system hybrid petrol-electric vehicle of the ‘unfounded industrial a result of the the automaker’s series in China from 2013. The that automatically freewheels reached 2m and a month after espionage allegations’ against so-called spy affair. plug-in is based on the long downhill to save fuel. It will be the company announced that its three senior Renault execs. wheelbase version of the 5 which fitted as standard to front-wheel total hybrid sales had passed the COO Patrick Pelata falls on his Read more BMW’s China joint venture, BMW drive ‘eco’ models with two-litre 3m mark. It’s being helped by sword, but Carlos Ghosn carries Brilliance Automotive, began petrol engines. rising fuel prices. on regardless. Actually, Pelata building in Shenyang last year. stays on within the Renault- Read more Read more Nissan alliance. Carlos Tavares The car, called ‘New Energy is eventually announced as the Vehicle’, is based on the ‘mild’ new COO. hybrid drivetrain BMW showed last year in the ActiveHybrid 5 Read more concept. That car is equipped with a twin-turbo I6 engine, eight-speed transmission and 40kW electric motor. Read more 4 proActive INDUSTRY NEWS JUST-AUTO EDITOR DAVE LEGGETT REVIEWS SOME OF THE LAST QUARTER’S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS JAPAN: Toyota to collaborate US: Honda, too, welcomes local US: Ford develops its first three UK: Toyota plant to feature GERMANY: Ford seat ‘monitors with WiTricity pipe-fed hydrogen station pot motor 17,000 solar panels driver’s heartbeat’ Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) American Honda, which three Ford reveals that it has developed Toyota says it will install 17,000 And finally, a seat that can has entered into a technological years ago began leasing five FCX its first three-cylinder engine. solar panels at its UK Burnaston monitor a driver’s heartbeat collaboration agreement with Clarity fuel cell electric vehicles The one-litre ‘EcoBoost’ three- plant in a bid to cut its carbon and help older drivers known Massachusetts, United States- on lease to film producer Ron cylinder petrol engine, developed dioxide production by 2,000 to have heart conditions has based WiTricity Corporation Yerxa, author and actress Jamie in Europe, is the smallest, by tonnes a year. The panels will been developed by a team from concerning the practical Lee Curtis and her filmmaker cylinder count, the automaker cover 90,000 square metres Ford’s European Research and application of automotive husband Christopher Guest; has built. (970,000 square feet), equivalent Innovation Centre and Rheinisch- wireless charging systems business owner and car to more than four football Westfälische Technische Read more and the promotion of their enthusiast Jim Salomon; actress pitches. Toyota says the solar Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen widespread use. TMC plans to Laura Harris; and Jon Spallino, panel project is the biggest of its University. The seat uses six participate in a WiTricity capital has welcomed the opening this kind in any car factory in Britain. embedded sensors to detect increase. week of the world’s first station electrical impulses generated by supplied by an existing hydrogen Read more the heart. Read more pipeline. Read more Read more 5 proActive LOTUS NEWS LOTUS LEGENDS UNVEIL NEW HETHEL TRACK Nigel Mansell officially opened asphalt and larger run off areas not a major achievement in and our partners that we are This is a very special place, Group Lotus’ revised and are better suited to modern itself, and I agree. However, delivering on our promises.” Hethel, and it was wonderful to restored Hethel test track with racing and performance car mentally and psychologically open the circuit today by driving a roar from the 1981 Essex- testing. Its mixture of corners, seeing this project accomplished Nigel Mansell, Group Lotus alongside my sons Leo and Greg.” Lotus 81B in which he started straight and braking zones demonstrates that step-by-step ambassador and 1992 Formula his glorious Formula One career makes it ideal for testing and our vision is becoming a reality.
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