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– 公交车的数字驾驶舱
– 劳士领开发活动空气遮挡
– 福特使用无人机来检查高地
– 活塞涂层提高效率
– 通用汽车和本田自动化合作伙伴
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公交车的数字驾驶舱
乘用车中的数字显示器并不是什么新鲜事，但现在它们也正在使用于公交车，这要归功于大陆供应商公司。它刚刚创建了一个数字驾驶舱，它有一个31厘米大的屏幕作为其中央显示屏。这是一个模块化单元，这意味着公交车制造商可以使系统适应他们的车辆。第一批装置已经运往巴士公司，明年将开始批量生产。大陆公司还表示，其数字驾驶舱已经引起了市政车辆，农业机械和工程车辆制造商的兴趣。
劳士领开发活动空气遮挡
各种新车都出现了主动格栅百叶窗。在不需要时关闭散热器开口可以显著改善汽车的空气动力学性能，从而提高燃油效率并减少排放。但百叶窗周围可能会有很多泄漏，因此供应商公司劳士领正致力于更好的设计。他们称之为主动空气百叶窗，而不是百叶窗。与目前的设计相比，它在空气堵塞方面提高了80％，包装效率提高了80％。令人惊讶的是，新设计只有16毫米深，这使它能够适用于以前主动格栅百叶窗无法容纳的汽车紧凑前端。
接下来…… 福特正在使用无人机帮助其制造工厂进行检查。
福特使用无人机来检查高地
现在几乎在任何地方都能听到无人机的嗡嗡声, 如今它们正在进入制造工厂。福特在其位于德国科隆的工厂使用安装有摄像头的无人机来检查高处，如管道工程和屋顶区域。无人驾驶飞机的速度提高了大约10倍，在12分钟内检查每个区域，整个工厂只需一天。这意味着该设施不必关闭，福特也可以减少员工高空作业受伤的风险。
活塞涂层提高效率
柴油仍然是商用车领域的首选发动机，马勒等供应商继续提高柴油机的效率。它刚刚推出了一种新型的活塞涂层，可以减少活塞吸收的热量。这减少了对活塞冷却的需求，这允许更高的废气温度并使废热回收系统能够提取更多的动力。在冷启动后，涂层还可以更快地加热处理系统后的废气。这减少了一氧化二氮的排放，使汽车制造商更容易满足当前和未来的法规要求。这对于只是简单地在活塞上涂层东西的确不错。
接下来…… 通用汽车和本田最近震惊了汽车行业，接下来我们会告诉你原因。
通用汽车和本田自动化合作伙伴
当通用汽车和本田宣布他们将合作开发自动驾驶汽车并投放了大量资金,这对汽车行业来说是一个重磅炸弹。但这已经超越了合作。本田将向通用汽车的子公司Cruise投资7.5亿美元，并再花费20亿美元开发这些汽车。
看到通用汽车让外部投资者为其研发工作投入大量资金，这真是令人震惊。 除了本田之外，一家日本企业集团还向通用Cruise公司投入了22亿美元。
汽车制造商正在努力投资电动汽车，自动驾驶汽车和移动服务，同时投资现有的汽车和卡车产品。 通过从发明者和竞争对手那里获取资金，通用汽车正在为这一切付出新的代价。
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Hello, I’m John McElroy, welcome to Autoline China, the show that covers some of the most important new technologies in the automotive industry.
DIGITAL COCKPIT FOR BUSES
Digital displays in passenger vehicles are nothing new but now they’re making their way to buses, thanks to the supplier company Continental. It just created a digital cockpit that features a big 31-centimeter screen as its central display. It’s a modular unit, which means bus makers can adapt the system to their vehicles. The first units are already being shipped to bus company’s and serial production kicks off next year. Continental also says its digital cockpit is attracting interest from manufacturers of municipal vehicles, agriculture machinery and construction vehicles.
ROECHLING DEVELOPS ACTIVE AIR BLINDS
Active grille shutters are showing up on all kinds of new vehicles. Closing off the radiator opening when it’s not needed can dramatically improve the aerodynamics of a car, which boosts fuel efficiency and reduces emissions. But there can be a lot of leakage around the shutters, so the supplier company Roechling is working on a better design. They call it the active air blinds, not shutters. and it provides an 80% improvement in air blockage and an 80 percent improvement in packaging efficiency over its current design. Amazingly, the new design is only 16 millmeters deep, which allows it to fit into the tight front end of cars that previously could not accommodate active grille shutters.
Still to come…Ford is using drones to help with inspections at its manufacturing plants.
FORD USES DRONES TO INSPECT HIGH PLACES
It’s not uncommon to hear the buzz of a drone almost anywhere you go and now they’re making their way into manufacturing plants. Ford is using drones mounted with cameras at its plant in Cologne, Germany to inspect high places, like pipe work and roof areas. The drones are about 10-times faster, inspecting each area in 12-minutes and the entire plant in just one day. That means the facility doesn’t have to be shut down and Ford is risking employee injury less not working up so high as often.
PISTON COATINGS IMPROVE EFFICIENCY
The diesel is still the engine of choice in the commercial vehicle segment and suppliers like MAHLE continue to make diesels more efficient. It just came out with a new kind of piston coating that reduces the heat absorbed by the pistons. This reduces the demand for piston cooling, which allows for higher exhaust gas temperatures and enables the waste heat recovery system to extract more power. The coatings also heat up the exhaust gas after treatment system faster after a cold start. That reduces nitrous oxide emissions and makes it easier for automakers to meet current and future regulations. Not bad for something that simply coats the pistons.
Coming up next…General Motors and Honda recently stunned the automotive industry and coming up next we’ll tell you why.
GENERAL MOTORS AND HONDA PARTNER ON AUTONOMY
General Motors and Honda dropped a bombshell on the auto industry when they announced they’ll work together developing autonomous cars. But it goes beyond collaboration. Honda will invest $750 million in GM’s subsidiary Cruise, and spend another $2 billion to develop those cars.
It’s fascinating to see GM get outside investors to kick in big money on its research and development efforts. In addition to Honda, a Japanese conglomerate kicked in $2.2 billion to GM Cruise.
Automakers are struggling to invest in electric cars, autonomous cars and mobility services at the same time they invest in their existing lineup of cars and trucks. GM is paving a new way to pay for all this by getting money from inventors and a competitor.
And with that we wrap up this edition of Autoline China, thanks for watching and please join us again next time.
John McElroy is an influential thought leader in the automotive industry. He is a journalist, lecturer, commentator and entrepreneur. He created “Autoline Daily,” the first industry webcast of industry news and analysis.
