Technical Paper
Thermal Management Solutions to Reduce Fuel Consumption
2013-10-07
2013-36-0246
Fuel economy has become of major interest due to increasingly stringent emissions and fuel consumption regulations and its impacts on vehicle taxation. In addition, end-user awareness of the fuel-efficiency increases market pressure for the application of fuel-efficient technologies. It represents lower lifetime operation costs combined with the maintenance of performance, safety and driving comfort. OEM's solution alternatives range from the optimization of current internal combustion engine (ICE) technologies until the complete electrification of vehicle powertrain. Although ICE continues to be the most likely dominant technology for the next years, depending on future emission regulations and implementation timing demand for the next decades, it's still uncertain which technology will finally prevail.
