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Steve Whelan

Steve is an experienced technical director who has spent over 30 years in propulsion R&D in the automotive industry. He spent 18 years at Ricardo Consulting Engineers in the UK where he specialised in powertrain, fuels, combustion R&D and system calibration programmes. As a Technical Director of an AIM-listed Tier1 company from 2005, secured a serial production deal with a major global vehicle OEM. In 2016 he joined TATA Technologies as Global Powertrain Director, working with xEV customers on system engineering. In 2018 he joined HORIBA where he set up and leads a global innovation & solution group.

Presentation

Use of digital engineering and co-simulation for EU7 development

The more stringent emissions limits and wider real-world driving test fields of EU7 require extensive road testing. On-road testing of EU7 RDE scenarios will be too complex and time-consuming to allow for adequate robustness. OEMs will need to adopt digital engineering to cover the multitude of real-world scenarios. Horiba Intelligent Lab includes road-to-rig and empirical digital twins, used in co-simulation with whole-vehicle models to allow RDE development in the lab and in the virtual domain. This presentation describes its application to an electrified ICE powertrain in a PHEV evaluation.