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3 F o c u s .04 C over Story I nterview with Prof. Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development .12 PO WERTRAIN ENGINERING Connected Powertrain – Connecting the powertrain with its environment and other vehicles opens up new possibilities .16 instrumentation and TEst Systems AVL Integrated Open Development Platform – Interview with Kai Uwe Voigt, E xecutive Vice President Instrumentation & Test Systems .20 P ortrait Denise Gray, AVL’s new Vice President of Powertrain Electrification Sections: 10 _ Around the World: AVL’s Global Network: Testing and Development Support around the World 23 _ AVL Cultural Foundation: Innovative, Flexible, Diverse – the Helmut List Halle in Graz, Austria 24 _ E xpertise: Reducing Emissions in Real Driving – AVL can offer its Customers an all-in-one Solution 27 _ Events: 25th International AVL Conference “Engine & Environment” 2013 – The Connected Powertrain, 5th–6th September, Helmut List Halle, Graz, Austria 28_ Products: AVL Simulation Tool-Chain for Turbocharger Analysis; NVH Test S ystems for the Powertrain, AVL CRETA – The Pinnacle of Data Management; F uel Consumption Measurement Engineers can Rely On; Complete Systems for Quality Assurance in Production 16 Editor and media owner: AVL (TM, RM) List GmbH, Hans-List-Platz 1, A-8020 Graz, Tel.: +43 316 787-0 Publisher and producer: Scoop and Spoon, Breite Gasse 4, A-1070 Wien Tel.: +43 1 523 4088 150, www.scoopandspoon.com Innovation is the basis of AVL’s development activities. We are working intensively on new technologies and methods to make the vehicle drive more efficient and environmentally friendly. This not only concerns the internal combustion engine and exhaust aftertreatment system, but also the electrified powertrain with transmission, electric motor and battery. To be able to advance these technologies, AVL invests around ten percent of its sales revenues in self- financed research. Our R&D activities are focused on key issues, such as efficiency enhancements in drives for light-duty, heavy-duty and offroad vehicles, while paying particular attention to powertrain cost and driveability. Here, our central approaches involve achieving the greatest level of integration and modularization of components possible. Crucial to the future development of these drive systems is AVL’s Integrated Open Development Platform strategy that enables close interaction between virtual development and testing on the test bed, thus reducing the development time for complex drives considerably. Thanks to its global reach – and based on these innovations and fundamental technologies – AVL is able to provide its customers all over the world with products and solutions accurately geared to the needs of the local markets. Helmut List > Prof. Helmut List Chairman and CEO AVL


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