With the diversification of drivelines and increasing focus on passenger comfort in semi-automated vehicles, effective energy balance at vehicle level is imperative. It is important to reduce or reuse waste heat, ensure optimal operating temperatures for components and subsystems, and also improve passenger comfort.
With more than 70 years of experience in the automotive industry and more than 15 years of experience with e-mobility, we can address these challenges directly and holistically. Our sophisticated in-house software ensures predictive analysis and modelling, and combines the components in an ideal way to save costs. Through virtual simulation and efficient packaging, we significantly reduce the environmental footprint.
Benchmarking and Target Setting
Our extensive benchmarking database enables us to offer our customers transparent support in the area of target setting. With our many years of experience and development expertise, we are implementing systems with high energy efficiency and cozy thermal comfort with great success. Thus, we offer planning security, reliability, and satisfaction right through to implementation in series production.
Virtual Approach
Holistic simulation allows us to make precise predictions early on and develop intelligent operating strategies. Up until validation and product release, we make use of virtual solutions, thereby reducing the need for physical prototypes and shortening or even eliminating iteration loops.
Our thermal system always references the overall vehicle. With our tools such as Model.CONNECTTM, we factor in the increased complexity and can simultaneously guarantee shorter and more efficient development processes. We consequent develop the majority of the Digital Twin from the concept to SOP and shorten the developing time by using model in the loop test environment on our ThermalLAB for System validation and Software Validation & Calibration.
- Michael Bires, Director Product Line Thermal Management & HVAC
Thanks to our many years of experience, we have in-depth knowledge of components and propulsion systems for all relevant vehicle attributes. We offer a virtual development process, as well as predictive thermal management solutions. We use models to calibrate functions and perform integrations, with a unique dynamic model in the loop approach to testing.
Using our tailor-made thermal management concepts, we have successfully completed 25 SOP projects with various OEMs in recent years – from development to series production. We also offer extensive benchmarking of trendsetter vehicles.
We think of passenger comfort as a product, from the first idea to the personalized customer experience. Passenger comfort is the key to well-being and safety. New mobility requires resource-efficient, personalized solutions – and this is AVL’s specialty.
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With the new vehicle engineering center, AVL established a unique engineering facility to test conventional and future vehicles in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary.