Every day it seems we are inching closer to the vision of a more sustainable mobility with green power and autonomous, electrified vehicles on ground, but also in water and air.
This includes a lot of new technologies such as high-capacity/high-power batteries, fuel cells, hybrids, and electric drives, which requires a new way of testing depending on accurate measurements of new types of sensors and signals and the overall data analytics for the many different propulsion solutions and combinations.
As market leader in solution-selling for test and measurement, sound and vibration and environmental testing, HBK gains perfect insights in the requirements and needs of different industries in terms of innovation, product releases and problem-solving for vehicles. It turned out that thermal management is a game changer in modern vehicle setups, going from combustion engine towards hybrids or full electric vehicles.
There were up to 300 temperature measurement spots as well as highly dynamic torque, speed, and pressure measurement on a 6-cylinder combustion engine and exhaust in past times, whereas now the number of measurement channels is just flipping towards the energy storage/high-power battery and the aggregates around. The electric drive is basically covered by a few channels.
