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Efficient Powertrain
 Future mobility is faced by two great challenges. The first challenge is to secure our energy supply. Fossil fuel reserves are depleting and oil prices will increase in the next decades. The age of cheap oil is drawing to a close. The second challenge is the reduction of CO2 emissions and other harmfull emissions such as NOx. Since the start of the industrial revolution in the early 20th century the emission of greenhouse gasses has increased every year at an exponential rate, causing an increase in globally averaged temperatures.
The solution to these challenges is also twofold. Firstly, we must enable an increasing use of fuels from renewable sources, such as hydro, wind, solar and biomaterial. Secondly, we must use less fuel by investing in the development of highly efficient powertrains. Even though the conventional drivetrain using an internal combustion engine has been continuously improved over the past one hundred years there are still plenty of opportunities to significantly increase the fuel efficiency of our vehicles. This can be achieved by advances in engine or transmission technology or by improving the efficiency of the drivetrain as a whole by the development of integrated powertrain controls and the application of hybrid technology.
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DAF trucks N.V.
DAF develops and produces advanced heavy-duty diesel engines which are leading in their class. These engines are used in DAF trucks and in coaches and special vehicles throughout the world. These engines use state-of-art injection systems and advanced exhaust gas aftertreatment technology to meet the latest emission legislation, such as the european Euro V and Euro VI, while showing an excellent fuel economy.
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Progression Industry
WEDACS is a patented technology for gasoline engines that reduces throttle losses with the ability to reduce fuel consumption up to 20% while increasing torque up to 25%. WEDACS replaces the throttle valve by a turbine that drives an alternator to transform throttle losses into electric energy to load the battery and power other car systems.
The air temperature drop over the turbine is fed to a heat exchanger that provides airconditioning power as an additional effect.
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Cluster development
One of the goals of the Automotive Technology Centre is to promote the clustering of parties and knowledge exchange by means of workshops, seminars and networking events.
The Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) and ATC together participate in a European project that will strengthen the position of automotive companies in the Maas-Rijn region by promoting cooperation and by making this region more attractive for automotive professionals to work in. EMR has started in October 2009 and will be completed in 2012.
Projects & programs
HTAS: Sensata – FUSE: Development of FUture SEnsors for Next Generation Diesel Engines
HTAS: MTT – CAP project
HTAS: DAF – FERVENT- Further Emission Reduction, Vehicle Efficiency gains and Neutral Thermal loading
Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen – Research into alternative fuels for existing driveline technologies (AFFEXTION)
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