There are many standardized drive cycles for various types of vehicles available from different sources. While the cycles are known to be used for enviromental compliance tests procedures, they can be also very helpful wile designing and testing a vehicle electric drive or other components.The drive...
The idea of testing whole vehicles while at rest was first conceived by locomotive engineers before being adopted by the automotive industry. Last steam locomotives build in the UK were tested on multiple axle unit with large eddy-current dynamometers with rollers connected to each driven axle. The...