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Innovation for the Automotive Industry
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CSIRO is addressing the important issues facing the automotive
industry with active programs in environmental sustainability and newmaterials through to vir tual design and manufacturing systems.
Our capabilities in action
CSIRO has decades of demonstrated expertise in automotive
materials and manufacturing technology, from mathematical
modelling and computer aided visualisations to welding and
advanced composite materials.
Casting technologies
T-Mag™
T-Mag™, an innovative magnesium
casting technology, enables super-light
magnesium alloys to be cast into high
integrity, high strength automotive
components which are cost-competitive
with those made from aluminium or steel.
T-Mag Pty Ltd, a joint venture between
CSIRO and three Australian companies,
is taking T-Mag™ technology to the global automotive industry.
Advanced thixotropic metallurgy
CSIRO’s Advanced Thixotropic
Metallurgy (ATM) heralds a new age
of quality high pressure die casting.
ATM is particularly suited to aluminium
or magnesium alloys. It offers lower costs
and improved quality in products such as
safety critical automotive components.
Mathematical modelling
Our specialists in simulation,
mathematical problem solving and
information visualisation cover:
• nite-element modelling
• adaptive supply networks
• whole-of-life modelling
• human-vehicle interfaces
• planning and operations optimisation
• exible virtual enterprises
• passenger cabins as smart spaces.
Safety systems
CSIRO’s Safe-T-Cam system
monitors heavy vehicle trafc
on Australia’s highways.
Our award-winning RoadCrack
system is used to assess the integrity
of the road surface from a vehicle
travelling at normal highway speeds.
> CSIRO’s casting technology
makes components made of
super-light magnesium alloys an
economically viable alternative.
> CSIRO has specialists in simulation,
mathematical problem solving
and information visualisation.
Advanced materialsCSIRO has considerable expertise in
• textiles
• light metals
• sustainable manufacturing
• heat recovery
• visual inspection
• autonomous vehicles
• adaptive supply networks.
Technology already used by automotive
manufacturers and suppliers includes:
• advanced composite fabrication
• textiles and bres
• polymer coatings
• bonding techniques.
We also work with component suppliers.
For example, we collaborated with a
leading manufacturer to produce new
high strength alloys for bearings.
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Lightweighting
We are leaders in using light metals such
as aluminium, magnesium and titanium.
Our recent breakthrough in heat
treatment of aluminium alloys has
the potential benet of lower vehicle
mass and higher crash safety.
Other research is pioneering twin-roll
cast and nished-rolled magnesium sheet.
Rapid design
CSIRO’s virtual design and engineering
technology can more than halve the time
from concept car to production vehicle.
It integrates the design, engineering and
manufacturing processes and signicantly
reduces the need for prototyping.
For example, our augmented reality
tools such as haptics (the ability to
touch in virtual reality) can be used
to visualise assembly processes.
Environmental sustainability
Drawing on our long-term capabilities
monitoring air pollution, CSIRO performs‘well-to-wheel’ analysis of alternative fuels
to examine their climate-friendly status.
With the rise of electried vehicles,
CSIRO is developing cleaner methods of
electricity generation and smart ways of
integrating distributed sources of energy.
> CSIRO develops sophistocated
power and control electronics.
> CSIRO’s UltraBattery and supercapacitors.
Energy storage
CSIRO is a world leader in designing
technologies to deliver safer, lighter,
more powerful and longer lasting
mobile energy storage devices.
Supercapacitors
Supercapacitors are electrochemical
capacitors that offer very high
capacitance in a small package.
CSIRO’s supercapacitor stores a large
amount of charge and release it very
quickly. This makes them ideal for short
term, high energy applications such
as whan an electric car accelerates.
UltraBattery
CSIRO’s UltraBattery integrates a
supercapacitor with a lead acid battery.
In comparison with conventional hybrid
electric vehicle systems, the UltraBattery:
• lasts four times longer
• produces 50 per cent more power
• is about 70 per cent cheaper.
Lithium battery
Our breakthrough research on room
temperature ionic liquids is spearheading
our development of a rechargeable
lithium metal battery that is:
• safe
• works over a wide temperature range
• delivers 25 per cent more energy
than a contemporary lithium
ion battery of the same size .
Our strengths include a team of internationally
recognised experts and a longstanding reputation forexcellence in technology and business innovation.
Meeting future challenges
Improving core technologies and tackling the
big issues for a sustainable future.
Fuelling future transport
We are exploring the feasibility ofalternative road fuels and assessing
possible biophysical, social and economic
impacts of their production and adoption.
This work covers:
• biofuels
• synthetic fuels (coal to liquid
and gas to liquid conversion)
• hydrogen as a fuel source.
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< This artist’s impression of the
Duoleta shows that radical appearance
is not required to achieve functional
and environmentally friendly objectives.
Concept vehicles
Together with our par tners CSIROhas been involved in the planning,
development and production of low fuel
consumption, low emissions vehicles.
ECOmmodore
CSIRO’s collaboration with Holden
began with the development
and demonstration of the
ECOmmodore in 2000.
This was one of the world’s rst family-
size parallel hybrid petrol-electric cars.
It performs like a conventional V6,
but with half the fuel consumption.
The ECOmmodore has a combination
of rst generation CSIRO
supercapacitors and specially designed,
‘valve regulated’, high power lead-acid
batteries. These are controlled by an
electronic energy management system
which controls the hybrid powertrain.
aXcessaustralia
Also developed in 2000, the
aXcessaustralia low emission vehicle
was a low-cost petrol-=electric
series hybrid concept vehicle.
It used technology from CSIRO
and more than 80 Australian
component manufacturers.
It could halve fuel bills and slash
air pollution by up to 90 per
cent and was acclaimed at motor
shows around the world.
On the road
The development of alternative vehicle technology is
driven by, among other things, rising fuel prices and
the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Duoleta
In late 2005, CSIRO was part of anAutoCRC conceptual development
investigating the technical and
commercial feasibility of producing in
Australia an ultra lightweight vehicle with
low fuel consumption and low emissions.
The Duoleta concept drew on petrol
engine technology, avoiding the high cost
and complexity of hybrid powertrains.
The study found such a car could
be made with features such as:
• fuel consumption <4 L per 100 km
• 0 – 100 km/h less than 10 s
• crash performance equal to
the best car of its size
• suitable for freeway and local road
• high manoeuvrability
• seating for 4 with 4 doors.
The Duoleta was designed for :
• export
• ease of disassembly and
high recyclability
• ultra-low drag coefcient (<0.25)
• ultra-low kerb weight (~700 kg).
The Duoleta concept revealed unrivaled
performance and fuel consumption
and very low CO2 emissions.
> The ECOmmodore was one of
the world’s rst family-size parallel
hybrid petrol-electric cars.
> The aXcessaustralia low
emission vehicle.
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For further information about partnering
with us:
Light Metals Flagship
Mr Sam Tartaglia
Phone: +61 3 9545 2964
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.csiro.au/ lightmetals
For further information about light alloys:
CSIRO Materials Science and
Engineering
Mr Barrie Finnin
Phone: +61 3 9545 2951
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.csiro.au/cmse
For further information about low emission
transport:
Energy Transformed Flagship
Dr John Wright
Phone: +61 2 4960 6080
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.csiro.au/et