Ricardo Quarterly Review Q3 2018 Interview John Beasley Advanced Propulsion Centre director of technology and projects Emissions experts A focus on the latest in technology, Ricardo’s unique approach innovation and sustainability includes RDE testing and roadside measurements Industrial engineering Ricardo Performance Products applies its advanced manufacturing expertise in a new industrial engineering consultancy Getting more from AIR QUALITY DATA RapidAir® software from Ricardo provides a much-needed diagnostics and decision-support capability to improve urban air quality Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology Ricardo Motorcycle Conference 5.0 Riding Future Technologies Join us for expert insight and discussion on the future of motorcycle and urban mobility technologies, and the market drivers that will change our industry. 5 November 2018 – Milan, Italy Venue: Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci Dinner: Deus Café, Milan Register and find out more by visiting our website. motorcycleconference.com Copyright © Ricardo plc | V1 18H U 20 CONTENTS Ricardo Quarterly Review • Q3 2018 News Features 11 Industry news ..................04 Analysing air quality .......11 Electric cars for the many, and the few; climate Anthony Smith explains how the new warnings intensify; air-taxi proposals; hydrogen RapidAir® software from Ricardo provides and battery power come to commercial a much-needed diagnostics and decision- vehicles sector; Volvo’s autonomous concept support capability to help tackle the challenge targets domestic air travel of improving urban air quality RQ viewpoint ....................07 Emissions Marc Wiseman President, Ricardo Strategic Consulting measurement ..................14 Ricardo’s unique approach to emissions USA, on mobility as a service – why it measurement includes both laboratory matters, and how Ricardo can help and RDE vehicle testing, and roadside measurements taken in pollution hotspots. Ricardo news ....................24 Tony Lewin speaks to two Ricardo experts 08 Race transmission deliveries; motorcycle conference programme announced; Northumbria Uni invests in Ricardo engines; Industrial waste service tool kit published; Cox unveils Engineering .......................20 outboard; Ricardo Rail project success – and Manufacturing industry commentator we win the 2018 Rail Challenge Will Stirling describes how the Ricardo Performance Products team is now using its advanced manufacturing expertise in Q & A a new industrial engineering consultancy John Beasley, APC .........08 service The Advanced Propulsion Centre is a £1 billion joint venture between the UK government and industry. 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Industry News INdustry NEWS The latest in technology, innovation and sustainability across world industries Electrics for everyone Under the banner of ‘electric for everyone’, recharge taking under 30 minutes. Daimler CEO Dieter including Bentleys. Volkswagen has launched an electrification “The MEB is one of the most important Zetsche presents Mercedes-Benz’s EQC crossover strategy that will see some 27 electrified projects in the history of Volkswagen — a the all-electric EQC (above) will appear next year too, with a crossover. Audi and, vehicles in series production within three technological milestone, similar to the 450 km range and all-wheel drive, while soon, BMW, have years, and over 50 by 2025. In common with transition from the Beetle to the Golf,” said VW close competitors and BMW’s contender in this category – not other major automakers, VW, the one of the board member for e-mobility Thomas Ulbrich. Jaguar is already in the due until 2021, but featuring Level 3 world’s top three manufacturers, expects The first pure electric Volkswagen, the market with its I-PACE autonomy – is previewed in concept form that by 2025 a quarter of the vehicles it I.D., will debut in 2019 and is expected to at the Paris show. The more conventional produces will be plug-in models. be priced at a similar level to a diesel Golf. all-electric iX3 will arrive in 2020, a year The high production volumes expected The MEB will not be the only dedicated after the electric Mini. for the VW Group’s new MEB (modular electric platform in the VW Group, however: The Mercedes EQC, Audi e-tron electric toolkit) platform will enable it to a modular longitudinal platform underpins Sportback and the BMW iX3 may house realize what are described as “hitherto the Audi e-tron, also launching in 2019; the industry’s most advanced powertrains unachievable price-service ratios” the e-tron GT concept sports car (to be but they tread cautiously as far as exterior for its electric products, turning them unveiled at the LA show in November) uses styling is concerned – in sharp contrast to from niche products into best sellers. a different platform co-developed with the racy Jaguar I-Pace, on sale since this New-generation batteries promise much Porsche; and a premium platform will cover summer as the first mainstream premium better driving ranges, with an 80 percent all medium to large vehicles in the Group, electric SUV. Electrics for the select few Just as volume carmakers are tooling up for the reality of an electrified future, elite manufacturers are embracing electric and hybrid power as a way of further boosting performance and providing environmental respectability. Aston Martin has already announced that its Lagonda marque will be a purely electric super-luxury brand, while its own models will also include the electric Rapide E; McLaren promises that it will launch 18 new models by 2025, by which time its entire line-up will be hybrid. Legendary coachbuilder Pininfarina is reinventing itself as a provider of zero-emissions luxury vehicles, and all-electric Chinese start-ups include Nio, Byton and FAW’s Hongqi brand, which has hired Rolls-Royce’s chief designer Giles Taylor to lead its Advanced Design Centre in Munich. 4 RQ • Q3 • 2018 Industry News NEWS IN BRIEF Highlighting the latest thinking in automotive engineering and technology worldwide Most valuable auto brands Mercedes has returned to its position as the world’s most valuable automotive brand, just displacing last year’s leader, Toyota. The valuations, from US organization Brand Finance, Climate warnings intensify place BMW closely behind in third position, followed at some distance by VW, Honda, Nissan, Porsche, Ford and Audi. Against the background of the heatwave act like a row of dominoes,” said Johan Upstart Tesla sprang from 30th to 19th. that swept the northern hemisphere Rockström, executive director of the in summer 2018, fossil fuel companies Stockholm Resilience Centre and co-author Those green satanic mills and normally cautious governments are of the report. “Once one [domino] is pushed Heavy industry is beginning to move towards renewable beginning to heed the growing number over, it pushes the earth towards another.” energy sources, according to a report in the Financial Times. of scientific reports predicting serious The European Geosciences Union Aluminium smelters such as Norsk Hydro are commissioning consequences if decisive action is not soon warns that unless decisive action is in dedicated wind farms to power their plants in Sweden and taken to mitigate climate change. place by 2035 the point of no return will Norway, and in Morocco wind will help three cement kilns The reports are given added poignancy have been passed; the deadline to limit run with fewer emissions; in Sweden a pilot plant will use by the appearance of exceptional numbers warming to 1.5 degrees has already renewable energy to produce iron ore pellets without recourse of tropical storms in Asia and the north been missed, say the Union’s scientists to fossil fuels. The industrial sector accounts for around one- Atlantic. With temperatures reaching from the universities of Oxford and fifth of global CO2 emissions. more than 51 Celsius in north Africa and