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  • Ricardo white paper to make case for safety of autonomous vehicles at Automobility 2016

    11 October 2016

    At the Automobility 2016 event at the Ford Motor Company Conference & Event Center, Dearborn, Michigan, on October 13, Ricardo will publish a white paper that details the importance of safety case development to support the public introduction of autonomous mobility, based on the pioneering international work of Ricardo Rail in ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles on both the railway and highway.

    Automobility 2016 – Reimagining Transportation – will provide an open forum for all participants to share ideas in assessing the challenges and opportunities as autonomous cars, ...

  • ADEPT CO2 savings confirmed - affordable 48V hybrid car goes on first public ride & drives

    13 September 2016
    • Final testing confirms ADEPT key achievement of 10-12 percent reduction in fuel consumption – equivalent to sub-80g/km of CO2 emissions
    • Updated estimated cost of production implementation only €60 per g/km CO2 reduction – very competitive with other fuel economy solutions such as full hybrids
    • Full results of the project will be presented at the LCV2016 show tomorrow, where the ADEPT vehicle will be available for the first time for public ride and drives


    The automotive industry is facing the challenge of offering customers new vehicles that are able to deliver significantly improved fuel economy and reduced carbon dioxide emissions, while at the same ...

  • Ricardo to show advanced low carbon, clean propulsion technologies at LCV2016

    08 September 2016

    Ricardo’s leadership across multiple domains of future vehicle technology will be on show at LCV2016 – the UK’s premier low carbon vehicle event, to be hosted at Millbrook on 14-15 September – where the company will display a range of new technology vehicles, as well as its class-leading capabilities in air quality measurement.

    In the external display area, Ricardo will exhibit low carbon demonstrators, including battery electric and range extended vehicles, as well as hybrids demonstrating the concept of ‘intelligent electrification’. A key attraction in this respect will be the ADEPT (advanced diesel-electric powertrain) project demonstrator, which will be available ...

  • A PERSONAL VIEW: Are car dealer networks really up to the task of maintaining increasingly complex diesel aftertreatment systems?

    14 July 2016

    A personal viewpoint by Anthony Smith, Director, MediaTechnical Ltd

    A year ago if I’d been asked this question, my response would have been an undoubted ‘yes’. Now though, personal experience leads me to worry that things are not as they should be within the dealer networks; that we have perhaps gone too far down the pathway of allowing warning lights and ECU codes to be the primary factor in fault tracing.
    For largely isolated components such as tyre pressure or fluid level warnings, blown bulbs and so on, this abstract/reductionist approach is fine. But with highly complex systems such as ...

  • Unplugging the EV

    30 June 2016

    Thanks to the latest generation of wireless electric vehicle charging technologies such as Qualcomm Halo™, the inconvenience and hassle of using power cables to connect to charging points could soon be a thing of the past for EV and PHEV drivers. Anthony Smith reports

    Plugging in for a recharge has to be the least glamorous aspect of driving an electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid (PHEV). Whereas most drivers of conventional diesel or gasoline fuelled vehicles might typically need to visit the service station to refill their tank once every week or two, plug-in vehicles should ideally be recharged rather more frequently, requiring them to be parked close to a ...

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