Leverage Simulation to Meet Emission Regulations in the Age of WLTP

Due to ever-increasing climate change concerns and experts warning that we only have a few years before the Earth becomes a difficult place to live, strict regulations have been put in place to minimize the CO2 emissions. With over a billion cars currently on the roads across the world, automobiles are seen as one of the major culprits. The Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) determines not only how to evaluate vehicle emissions and consumption but has also expanded to include how to report the expected range for electric vehicles.

With many of the world’s biggest vehicle markets implementing stricter standards and more difficult certification procedures, manufacturers need to be able to overcome the challenges they pose and still focus on the customer experience while driving.

With the simulation solutions offered by Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA, OEMs and suppliers can optimize vehicle and component designs and even digitally certify certain aspects of the vehicle in order to meet the requirements of WLTP.

Why WLTP simulation: 

• Significantly reduce physical testing burden through digital certification for every vehicle variant
• Evaluate the performance of vehicle variants early in the design cycle to ensure they will meet regulations
• Consider the interaction between different parts, giving engineers more scope to reduce emission
• Verify design changes that reduce emissions will still meet strict performance requirements

Our SIMULIA experts can help you to set up a compliance regime that will be approved by the regulators.

• E-Seminar 1: Overcoming Disruption of WLTP, September 17

What is the meaning of WLTP and why is it causing so much disruption to the industry? We will show you the solutions Dassault Systèmes has developed to address these challenges. 

• E-Seminar 2: Lighten the Burden of WLTP, September 21

Find out about the solutions Dassault Systèmes has for Vehicle Lightweighting and how to leverage them. This includes sophisticated material models and associated joining technologies to enable the mixed material strategy favored by most OEMs, as well as optimization techniques at both the system and subsystem level.

• E-Seminar 3: Digital Certification for Vehicle Aerodynamics under WLTP, September 28

Discuss the WLTP demonstration of equivalence and the challenges it places on a digital process for aerodynamic road load determination.