Vehicle Energy Management

While eco-friendly vehicle concepts are strategic for OEMs and suppliers, drivers are still expecting driving pleasure to be present. Measures taken to optimize energy efficiency should have no effect on key performances like noise, drivability or ride comfort. Being able to assess early in the design and engineering process the impact of system architecture choices on the global energy balance and on key attributes performance enables to frontload design decisions and maintain time-to-market.

Siemens Digital Industries Software offers a unique combination of system, 3D and CFD simulation tools, along with engineering services, allowing you to find the right balance before a physical prototype exists. You can then digitally explore the physics and the control systems behind various vehicle subsystems to ensure full-vehicle energy balance and optimization.

While eco-friendly vehicle concepts are strategic for OEMs and suppliers, drivers are still expecting driving pleasure to be present. Measures taken to optimize energy efficiency should have no effect on key performances like noise, drivability or ride comfort. Being able to assess early in the design and engineering process the impact of system architecture choices on the global energy balance and on key attributes performance enables to frontload design decisions and maintain time-to-market.

Siemens Digital Industries Software offers a unique combination of system, 3D and CFD simulation tools, along with engineering services, allowing you to find the right balance before a physical prototype exists. You can then digitally explore the physics and the control systems behind various vehicle subsystems to ensure full-vehicle energy balance and optimization.

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Tighter design constraints, increased systems complexity and stricter regulations regarding energy efficiency make vehicle energy management an increasingly challenging but yet essential engineering domain. These highly complex, interrelated problems has to be solved across the entire design cycle if a vehicle is to meet stringent regulatory standards and customer requirements. Accomplishing this while also reducing costs requires a new approach based on simulation-driven development. With this development method, you can digitally explore various architectures and configurations to find the best trade-offs between different performance attributes, evaluating both the physics and control systems of different subsystems, before a prototype even exists.

Siemens PLM software offers a unique combination of system simulation, 3D CAE and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation tools, as well as experienced engineering services, to offer capabilities ranging from benchmarking and target setting for energy management, to architectural sizing and control law strategy, to design exploration.

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Solution capabilities

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3D Thermal Analysis

Understand the thermal characteristics of your vehicle and subsequently tailor your thermal management strategies for optimal performance using 3D simulation.

Electrified Vehicle Simulation

Master the engineering complexity of electrified vehicles and simulate all critical subsystems to assess global vehicle performance, from architecture creation to integration, including detailed design.

Engineering and Consulting Services

Accelerate product development and solve the toughest problems with scalable help from engineering and consulting services.

Fluid Dynamics Simulation

Simulate almost any engineering problem that involves the flow of liquids, gases (or a combination of both), together with all of the associated physics.

HVAC & Vehicle Cabin Comfort Simulation

Optimize the design of air conditioning loops, evaluate the cabin cool down or heating processes, check the impact of exterior conditions and technological choices and assess human thermal comfort sensation.

Integrated Systems Simulation

Evaluate different vehicle and powertrain architectures at any stage of the design cycle and under various operating conditions, to optimize fuel economy, drivability, reliability, comfort and NVH.

Thermal Management Systems Simulation

Ensure the engine is correctly cooled down by optimizing heat-exchangers, pumps and thermostats and optimize warm-up phases, control strategies and integration with the HVAC system.

Vehicle Energy Management Test Center

Benefit from advanced testing solutions on a full vehicle level combined with in-depth physics simulation to optimize fuel economy using our vehicle energy management test center.