The Aachen Colloquium took place between October 5 - 7, as a virtual conference. Reflecting on the growing trend of environmentally friendly mobility, the new title is Sustainable Mobility, and we participated with a virtual booth as well as two presentations.
Often, discussions and calculations of CO2 emissions are based on a tank-to-wheel view. This means that emissions resulting from the production and recycling of vehicles, batteries, fuels and electricity are not considered. If considered, the carddle-to-grave comparison of different powertrains is put into perspective, depending on the CO2 emissions of the powerplant mix.
Besides purely electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles will play an important role in reducing CO2 emissions. So far, high costs and system effects on existing powertrains have prevented the large-scale adoption of these systems. By increasing the peak power output to 30 kW, our 48V HighPower system enables full hybrid functions based on 48V technology.