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The Vehicle`s Load Balance should have robust assessment before design release phase, in order to guarantee that it achieves the best optimized design to support product features and requirements, meeting cost expectation and avoiding later changes that usually have significant impact to the program. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate that a complete Load Balance Evaluation can be performed using computational methods avoiding physical prototypes that are usually a significant cost during product development.

By using tridimensional full-wave computer simulations three different scenarios involving antenna placement in an automobile model were analyzed. The electromagnetic impact of the vehicle model complexity was taken into account, as well as the relative position of the antenna on its roof. The simulations were run in a moderate equipped computer, and show a powerful alternative to complement and forecast real laboratory evaluations