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Decarbonization
of High Power Systems
While road traffic gets most of the headlines when it comes to emission reduction and climate
legislation, the automotive industry is not the only sector with targets to meet. High power systems
are facing similar calls to improve efficiency.
AVL’s High Power Systems division (formerly known as Large Engines), works on big power
applications including marine, stationary power plants, locomotives and large size off-road vehicles
such as mining equipment.
Statistically, large engine applications are already cleaner and more efficient than their smaller counterparts.
The largest container ships, for example, can transport around 24,000 containers, whereas
a truck on the road can transport just one or two at a time. Measuring the fuel-per-ton cargo in
goods transportation shows that seafaring vessels are the cleanest transport solutions, followed by
locomotives. Indeed, compared with air cargo, marine applications are cleaner by a factor of more
than 40, and many governments are keen to get goods transport off the roads for this very reason.
At AVL our solutions
are not just limited
to the road, but reach
all kinds of large
applications around
the world