Hybrid systems helping mid-range cars

There’s always a good excuse, like claiming the subject has been talked to death for example. But at Semcon we have decided to take climate change very seriously and help find a solution. Because we are engine system experts we’ve decided to target the automotive industry, where The issue of global warming overshadows everything else. Lead times, design and performance are all standing aside for the automotive industry’s most important issue.
A revolutionary  development would be to install hybrid systems into ordinary family cars, globally. The problem is that these systems are costly and take up a lot of room. This means that these engine solutions only end up in the most exclusive cars bought by the least price-sensitive target groups. But, if mid-range cars don’t become more eco-friendly we have a problem. Semcon Automotive is therefore helping to develop hybrid installations for the large-scale automotive industry – for cars that   majority of us drive. We are working proactively with research and listening to our customers, monitoring trends and noting what’s happening in the industry. We are then taking this information and matching it with Semcon’s capabilities. By  uickly providing the right skills we can continue helping our customers remain at the forefront, even in future. We know for example that the automotive industry is becoming increasingly interested in advanced aftertreatment systems for dealing with exhaust gases from the fuel we still use. We have therefore already created a knowledge bank about diesel particle filters and catalytic converter  systems. In more practical terms we are also trying to make things more efficient in the simplest way possible and designing answers for installing hybrid solutions into all types of cars, while trying to keep car prices as low as possible. We provide solutions for our customers that balance quality, performance and not  least –price, to help bring end-prices down in the long-term for the customer,  hich is an exciting, major, challenge for us. Overall our work consists of three parts: we have consultants working with customers, who handle both software and hardware developments for specific components in hybrid vehicles. We also take customers’ problems home and try to solve them at our offices. Using our skills and concept development, we can both propose system solutions for the  problems of hybrid engines and do the actual development work. In addition, we have our own projects where we can work relatively unhindered in order to find the solutions that nobody had a clue about yesterday. Climate threat is a reality, which is why we need to be realistic. People won’t stop using cars tomorrow, rather the opposite. But next year, or the year after they’ll hopefully be driving cars with more ecofriendly hybrid systems installed in them.