The design of automobiles that are intended to serve millions of people has been a challenge for collaborative approaches. Most of the designs were made without considering sustainability. Sustainability is about meeting or helping to meet the mobility needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The proposed concept is a reaction to things that have gone radically and visibly wrong with automobile designs, practice and performance over the last half of the twentieth century. Automobiles, after a century of engineering, are embarrassingly inefficient: of the energy in the fuel it consumes, at least 80 percent is lost, mainly in the engine's heat, exhaust and other losses, so that at most only 20 percent is actually used to turn the wheels. This research work is a stepping stone towards taking initiatives to design and develop innovative energy efficient devices which can recover back some energy from automobiles which are otherwise wasted during its use.
The main approach is to identify the energy losses in the entire automobile system (as automobiles are the key factor which strives major portion of sustainable development) and to concentrate on less pragmatic part (area where most of the researchers pay least attention for energy losses) and also to develop new devices which can recover energy for effective management of fuel economy in automobiles and thereby making a sustainable growth.
Publication: Device to Increase Fuel Efficiency in Automobiles
Sustainable Product Development and Life Cycle Engineering, Proceedings of the 7th Global conference on sustainable Manufacturing- 2009 IIT Madras, Topic: Energy Efficiency, Page: 67-73
The details of these concepts are not disclosed due to the patent regulations (applied for Deutsches Patent).
Embodiment design:
Concept: Part-02
