Multidisciplinary simulation of vehicles

Multidisciplinary simulation of vehicles assists in gaining a better understanding of the vehicle as a complete system, as well as in the systematic development and evaluation of potential ways to increase efficiency and also reducing transport-related CO2 emissions. The AlternativeVehicles library developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) contains models of vehicle-specific single components, subsystems, and total vehicles at varying levels of detail. This allows various powertrain concepts to be investigated and optimised in terms of their energy efficiency.