AC #2034 – 福特的新制造工艺，奥迪开创新油漆工艺，轮毂电机接近现实

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法雷奥的智能包围技术
扩大电动汽车续航能力的方法之一是减少供暖和空调系统的电力负荷。为此，供应商法雷奥开发了所谓的智能包围。当您上车时，红外线和生物识别传感器会扫描您的身体。它们可以测量您的心率，体温和其他因素。这可以激活靠近您身体的门和屋顶的加热或冷却面板，其使用的能源远远少于传统的空调系统。如果可能已经跑步并觉得很热的人上车，它会扫描他们的身体并相应地设定他们的温度。有趣的是，法雷奥还发现，如果你在车内使用红色灯光，人们会感觉到内饰变暖。如果你使用蓝色灯光，他们会认为内饰变冷。这种看法可能可以从多个角度来解释。法雷奥表示在未来3到5年我们将看到类似智能包围的技术。

现代和起亚在汽车上提供太阳能电池板
现代和起亚将开始在其混合动力汽车的车顶上安装太阳能电池板，以此帮助电池充电。根据天气情况，他们可以在白天为电池充30％到60％的电量。第二代系统将用于内燃机车辆。它将是一个半透明的太阳能系统，与全景天窗融为一体。而第三代将用于电池电动车，它将在发动机罩和车顶上使用。现代和起亚将在2019年后开始提供该系统。

接下来…… 奥迪开创了一种新的喷漆工艺来定制汽车。

福特的新制造工艺
福特正在展示其全新的全自动热成型工艺，以使全新的福克斯更加安全。将硼浸渍的高强度钢板放入炉中，经过930摄氏度的温度，然后将它们装入液压机中，在3秒钟内冲压和冷却。这些部件用于全新福克斯的安全部件，但由于钢的强度非常大，只能使用高能激光进行修整。结果显示，汽车在撞车时的承受能力可以提高40％。这表明了钢铁行业在铝和碳纤维的世界中依然保持相关性。

奥迪开创了新的油漆工艺
奥迪拥有全新的喷漆工艺，可以让客户更加个性化定制他们的汽车。他们称之为局部消光。首先将模板放在涂漆部件上，然后将其置于真空下并用粉碎的玻璃粉末喷涂。这样可以去除少量的透明涂层，使表面变粗糙，这样可以使其从涂漆部分中突显出来。奥迪表示，特别版Q2侧滑板上的这种交叉模式只花了大约一分钟的时间。所有刻字，徽标或照片的内容都可以显示在钣金上。奥迪还表示，它是第一家在批量生产中使用局部消光的制造商。

接下来…… 轮毂电机将更接近现实，它们可以彻底改变汽车设计。

轮毂马达接近现实
轮毂马达就像它的名字听起来一样，是一个内置于车轮轮毂的电动机。它还集成了制动器和转向系统。由于它可以取代变速箱，转向齿条，传动轴和车轴，使得它可以释放车辆中的所有空间。

在装配厂，您只需要在每个角落使用四个轮毂电机，装配过程会变得更加容易和快捷。

一家名为Protean的公司开发了自己的轮毂电机，它刚刚宣布与一家知名汽车供应商利纳马达成制造协议。除非汽车公司开始订购轮毂电机，否则我认为利纳马不会计划开始制造它们。

本期Autoline中国的节目到这里就结束了。感谢您的收看，我们下期再见。

Hello, I’m John McElroy, welcome to Autoline China, the show that covers some of the most important new technologies in the automotive industry.

VALEO’S SMART COCOON TECHNOLOGY
One of the ways to extend the range of electric cars, is to reduce the electrical load from the heating and air conditioning system. To that end, the supplier company Valeo developed what it calls the Smart Cocoon. When you get in a car, infrared and biometric sensors scan your body. They measure your heart rate, body temperature and other factors. And that can activate heating or cooling panels in the door and roof that are close to your body, which use far less energy than a traditional HVAC. If someone else gets in the car who may have been running and is hot, it scans their body and sets their temperature accordingly. Interestingly, Valeo also found that if you use red lighting inside a car, people will perceive the interior being warmer. If you use blue lighting, they will think it’s cooler. And that perception can be by a couple of degrees. Valeo says we could see something like the Smart Cocoon in another 3 to 5 years.

HYUNDAI AND KIA TO OFFER SOLAR PANELS ON CARS
Hyundai and Kia will start putting solar panels on the roofs of its hybrid cars to help charge the batteries. They’re capable of charging 30 to 60 percent of the battery during the day, depending on weather conditions. A second-generation system will be for internal combustion vehicles. It will be a semi-transparent solar system that’s integrated with the panoramic sunroof. And a third-generation will be for battery electric vehicles, which will go on both the hood and roof. Hyundai and Kia will start offering the system after 2019.

Still to come…Audi pioneers a new painting process to customize cars.

NEW MANUFACTURING PROCESS FROM FORD
Ford is showing off its new fully automated hot-forming process to make the all-new Focus safer. Sheets of boron-impregnated, high-strength steel are put in furnaces and subjected to temperatures of 930-degrees Celsius, then they are loaded into a hydraulic press and then stamped and cooled in just 3-seconds. The pieces are used to form the safety cell of the Focus, but it’s so strong the steel can only be trimmed using high-energy lasers. The result is a 40% improvement in the car’s ability to withstand head-on crashes. And this shows how the steel industry is keeping itself relevant in a world of aluminum and carbon fiber.

AUDI PIONEERS NEW PAINT PROCESS
Audi has a new paint process that will allow customers greater individualization of their vehicles. They call it partial matting. A template is placed over a painted part, then put under vacuum and sprayed with a fine powder of crushed glass. This removes a tiny amount of the clear coat and roughs up the surface enough to make it stand out from the painted part. Audi says this pattern of crosses on the sideblade of a special edition Q2 only took about a minute to do. And everything from lettering, logos or photos can be displayed on the sheet metal. Audi also says it’s the first manufacturer to use partial matting in volume production.

Coming up next…hub motors could be closer to reality and they could revolutionize car design.

HUB MOTORS CLOSE TO REALITY
A hub motor is just what it sounds like. It’s an electric motor built right into the hub of a wheel. It also integrates the brakes and the steering. So that frees up all kind of room in a vehicle because it eliminates the transmission, the steering rack, the driveshaft and axles.

At an assembly plant you’d just have to bolt on four hub motors at each corner, making assembly far easier and faster.

A company called Protean has developed its own hub motors and it just announced a manufacturing agreement with Linamar, a well-established automotive supplier. And I don’t think Linamar would be ready to start making them unless it believes that car companies will start ordering them.

And with that we wrap up this edition of Autoline China, thanks for watching and please join us again next time.