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India has leapfrogged to BS-VI OBD-A emission regulations since April 2020 and is heading towards BS-VI OBD-C implementation by April 2023. The Fuel Economy (FE) improvement for heavy commercial vehicles is mandated through enforcement of Heavy-Duty Fuel Economy Norms (HDFE-I by April 2021, HDFE-II by April 2023) as part of BS-VI regulation in India. This is navigating the commercial vehicle industry to explore various technology options to improve FE. Commercial vehicle applications such as City Buses and Mining Tippers have long engine idle durations either due to traffic conditions or loading-unloading pattern. This makes engine idle control and specifically Stop-Start Technology a more viable and attractive option for FE improvement. The current paper provides an overall approach and details related to Stop-Start technology integration at engine and vehicle level.

We present a framework for creating and analyzing future scenarios that are relevant to automotive engines in India. We propose an approach to enable us to continuously capture the diverse inputs from an ever changing external environment and be agile in strategic response to the changes. We have illustrated the application of future scenarios building process to IC engines. We have designed a critical technologies / parameters dashboard for the automotive industry to continuously monitor the evolution of the scenarios. The critical parameters are assigned current and future probabilities to visualize plausible alternative futures