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Electric Vehicle Technology Testing

Electric vehicle performance, energy consumption, reliability and safety require extensive testing. The Powertrain Test Centre offers testing services in the field of hybrid and electric vehicles to the automotive R&D industry as well as to end-users such as fleet owners. This ranges from component level to complete vehicle testing, even at extreme ambient temperature and pressure conditions.

Under laboratory conditions, the performance of electric vehicles can be determined accurately and in a reproducible way. Electric range can be measured using any type of drive cycle, be it a standard ECE cycle or a tailor-made profile that closely resembles the actual end-usage. In contrast to large scale pilot testing of electric vehicles, laboratory testing of multiple vehicles can provide you with objective, high quality data in a matter of days. This data can support a fleet owner in selecting the best vehicle to meet their needs and can support the industry in setting the right development targets.

Facilities

  • Digatron with connector boxes installed in medium and heavy duty engine test cells, in climatic-altitude chamber and in battery testing area: 300 kWe, 750 Vdc, 400 A
  • Climatic-altitude chamber: for engines, powertrains and complete HD vehicle testing at temperatures from –45 to +55 ºC and up to an altitude of 4000 m. Installed dynamometer power, torque: 550 kW, 7000 Nm
  • Light duty roller dynamometer
  • Transmission test bed with 2 transient dynamometers
  • Engine dynamometers: fully transient from 20 to 700 kW

A number of tests can be performed, including those for:

  • exhaust emissions from various engines according to 88/77/EEC and ECE 49
  • exhaust emissions from various vehicles according to 70/220/EEC and ECE 83
  • emissions from non-road engines according to 97/68/EC Q042007/200
  • smoke emission from diesel engines according to 72/306/EEC and ECE 24
  • engine power according to 80/1269/EEDand ECE 85
  • fuel consumption according to 80/1268/ EEC and ECE 84
  • replacement catalysators according to ECE 103