EPN Automotive Electronics Blog

The muffled truck

Particularly in metropolitan and urban areas, the noise produced by delivery trucks, buses, coaches and urban municipal vehicles constitutes a form of environmental pollution. A special ant-sound-technology might prove helpful.

The speed of electricity

One of the really exciting opportunities of electrically powered cars is that they won’t have to look like cars used to. Small motors, no exhaust pipes, gear boxes and fuel tanks, but flexibly configurable batteries. At ‘normal’ speeds, not even aerodynamic is an issue. It is, however, when the vehicle is powered with 340 horsepowers.

Pay, drive and pay again

»Pay-As-You-Drive« and »Pay-How-You-Drive«: »User-based insurance solutions« are mainly about the customer paying. Even worse, this kind of special telematics solution enables insurance companies to track and record the movement and behavioural aspects of drivers. Actually, that's the essential functionality.

BMW still sustainable

»Sustainability« is a rather complex term which in general can mean everything as well as nothing. Today, economical, ecological, social and humanitarian issues are mixed up in this term in such a way, that it’s almost impossible to ascertain what it means that BMW is, according to SAM and DJSI, »the world’s most sustainable automobile manufacturer for the sixth consecutive year«.

Prototyping Lambda Probe

As cars become increasingly environmentally friendly, engine and exhaust control electronics get more and more complex. One consequence is that today it’s more or less impossible even to change a spark plug on one’s own, another is the pure intricacy of the design and development process.