The Development of a Dedicated Range Extender Engine Mahle Powertrain, Limited

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Bassett, Bassett, author.

Contributor:

Bisordi, Andre

Darkes, Darren

Hall, Jonathon

OudeNijeweme, Dave

Warth, Marco

Conference Name:

SAE 2012 World Congress & Exhibition (2012-04-24 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2012

Summary:

This paper forms the third of a series and presents resultsobtained during the testing and development phase of a dedicatedrange-extender engine designed for use in a compact-class vehicle.The first paper in this series used real-world drive logs toidentify usage patterns of such vehicles and a driveline model wasused to determine the power output requirements of a range-extenderengine for this application. The second paper presented the resultsof a design study. Key attributes for the engine were identified,these being minimum package volume, low weight, low cost, and goodNVH. A description of the selection process for identifying theappropriate engine technology to satisfy these attributes was givenand the resulting design highlights were described. The paperconcluded with a presentation of the resulting specification anddesign highlights of the engine.This paper will present the resulting engine performancecharacteristics. The performance targets set for the engine duringthe initial phase of the study have been met. An initial packagestudy of the integration of the engine into a vehicle will bepresented, along with the results of a driveline modeling study,giving details of drive-cycle tailpipe CO₂ estimates for arange-extended electric vehicle fitted with the MAHLErange-extender engine

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Publisher Number:

2012-01-1002

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license