complete and comprehensive articles, news and information about electric cars, including hybrid, diesel, and smart cars or alternative Fuel Vehicles, related automotive industry and technology and more
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Seven New Future Technology're unveiled by Audi
Audi continues to develop automotive technologies that increasingly sophisticated and very helpful automotive enthusiasts
AUDI has published a booklet that lays out seven future technologies that will be applied on his vehicles. Some of the technology is still in early development stage, and the rest will follow later.
The Audi development engineers have to collaborate with strategic partners who are working on new technologies that include:
Garage Parking Pilot
Technology in the parking guide uses data exchange at the entrance of the parking facility where computers communicate over a network control WLAN garage with the car, then guided him to an empty parking space.
OLED technology (Organic Light Emmiting Diode)
This technology can be used in several ways. In the case of the Audi R8 concept OLED, OLED triangular lights illuminate hundreds of dynamic contour to the body. OLED is arranged as a display area, can transform a vehicle into the back of the animated surface.
The points of light that fluctuates only a few pixels in size can be individually energized.
Hybrid Body Material
This technology represents a new hybrid blend of metal with the structure of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). Audi has just run the process in the manufacture of a Multimaterial Space Frame, which combines aluminum, steel and fiber-reinforced components.
Coil springs made from FRP / fiberglass can provide weight savings of 40 percent over conventional steel springs. The new FRP spring will be used to model Audi R8 e-tron at the end of this year.
Multitouch Control
Technology system is focused on the touch of a finger touchpad technology innovations that can improve the operating system uses some of the fingertips. The system also sends a response back to the fingertips of users.
Predictive Suspension Technology
Suspension technology utilizes a stereo camera sensor to identify the uneven surface of the approaching and provide reset commands on the active suspension damping appropriate to provide a vehicle to keep going as comfortable as possible.
Of all the technological development, the main focus of development Audi started with ultra-lightweight construction. According to Audi, this is the most important aspect of research that not only specifically applied to the construction of the body, but also in the chassis and suspension.
Electronic devices also play an important role in future technologies to accelerate the pace of innovation by doubling the speed of electronic processes every two years, as described by Moore's law.
Another important development related to the concentration of e-tron technology that focuses on the propulsion system of pure electric-powered vehicle called electromobility.
And last but not least, is the lighting technology. This technology is another area that drambah by Audi and make it last as a world leader in automotive lighting systems.