Mobility Solutions
In line with changes in today’s world and developing technology, we develop technologies that meet the new mobility needs of our customers and produce solutions for them. We work to provide freedom of travel and different mobility needs of individuals via sustainable methods. We support FCA’s researches and studies on creating responsible consumer behavior in regards to energy consumption.
Vehicles with Low Emission Values
At Tofaş, we adopt environmental protection as a crucial part of our social responsibility. Along with climate change that gains importance, the share of FCA’s projects providing low fuel consumption and emissions studies in total sustainable mobility studies has been increasing. At Tofaş, we contribute these studies and consider this subject as a continuous development area.
The system which we created in this regard and define as a portable emission measurement system enables the realization of measures done at emission laboratories under real road conditions. The target of this test is the evaluate the emission results of the vehicle under traffic environment which represents the real road conditions instead of tests done at constant conditions under emission laboratories. In Turkey, PEMS utilization in passenger cars has been activated first by Tofaş. The test results create input to engine software of vehicles at project step and become a reference for measurements in emission laboratories.
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In 2017, 25 million TL of R&D expenditures was allocated to emission reduction projects.
LiCON Project
LiCON which was initiated in 2015 for developing vehicles with low emission levels was completed in 2017. A prototype vehicle that is validated through tests is developed based on the project that aims to reduce fuel consumption and CO emissions by applying regenerative braking in conventional vehicles.
Doblò 1.3 and 1.6 Diesel Euro 6D Project
In 2017, we continued the projects that we initiated in 2016 to develop environmentally-friendly vehicles complying with European norms. Within this project, we aim to perform designing and design verification studies including engines, engine systems and electric architecture of Doblò 1.3 and 1.6 diesel vehicles, and to meet the emission requirements of both Euro6C and Euro6D.
In addition to emission levels of the vehicles, we focus on reducing the amount of raw materials used in production without risking vehicle safety, enabling more efficient use of resources and less waste consumption, and minimizing other environmental impacts.
Alternative Fuel Vehicles
One of the areas we focus on in regards to mobility studies is to develop vehicles with alternative fuel engines. We support FCA’s focus on generalizing the use of alternative fuel systems such as natural gas and bio-fuel.
We closely monitor electric vehicle technologies globally. We carry out studies to integrate innovative solutions and applications with these technologies, and to produce electric vehicle systems and components locally. We realize projects about developing electric engines, interfaces and various systems, and parts and components to be used in vehicles equipped with CNG and ANG fuel systems.
IMPROVE Project
In 2017, we continued the performance, road efficiency, integration and management project studies on IMPROVE electric vehicle electronic performance initiated in 2013 based on our improvement strategy in energy recovery via full electric braking. In this regard, we carried out studies on vehicle control software and integration, vehicle mechanic integration and vehicle simulation for vehicle systems and infrastructures. With this project, we aim to increase the range by reducing energy consumption, to achieve competence in full electric braking system, and to enable route optimization and energy efficiency via cloud structure.
Range Enhancing Engine Application for Home Range Electric Vehicles
Based on our electric vehicle development studies, we closely monitor the developments in range enhancing system technologies and carry our feasibility studies to initiate new projects. According to the application we conduct in cooperation with FCA, we completed studies on developing electric vehicles with internal combustion and range enhancer; and initiated its application in the reporting period. Model-based control algorithms developed and system integration experience gained thanks to this application are added to Tofaş’s know-how to create a basis for electric vehicle project with a range enhancer that possibly be developed in short or mid-term.
