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The use of the Northamptonshire facility enables manufacturers to avoid the cost and logistics challenges of travelling to multiple destinations for altitude and climatic testing
Climatic facility drives off the need to travel
Hypobaric and climatic testing facility in the UK reduces global travel requirements for real driving emissions testing
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ngineering services specialist Mahle Powertrain has helped a major vehicle manufacturer to overcome testing challenges posed by travel restrictions dur- ing the Covid crisis. Under strict Covid precautions, utilisation
of the hypobaric and climatic capability of the company’s Real Driving Emissions Centre in Northampton, has enabled the replication of real-world driving cycles without the require- ment for global travel usually associated with altitude testing. This has mitigated risk and significantly re-
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duced testing time and cost when compared with traditional methods and therefore could result in a permanent change in the way test- ing is approached, according to Mahle. “Travel restrictions had the potential to
Flexible 4WD chassis dynamometer can simulate different loads and road gradients for real driving emissions testing
generate a significant backlog in testing. Mahle managed to not only avoid delays dur- ing delivery of a programme for a major ve- hicle manufacturer, but devised a more streamlined, cost-effective test schedule that could be completed faster than nor- mally anticipated,” explains Thomas Brooks, Mahle Powertrain’s head of calibration. “We
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