View from Vienna

摘要

If you want to know what you are likely to have on your driveway in 2020, you should attend the Vienna Motor Symposium. You'll also come away with a more detailed understanding of how OEMs intend to address Europe's 2012 carbon dioxide legislation. Engineers relish the prospect of delivering affordable cleaner transport for the future, whether this means hydrogen fuel cells, plug-in hybrids orV12 combustion engines. Well to wheel Ford presented a comprehensive review of the likely powertrains of the future. Well-to-wheel (WTW) efficiencies - the total energy required to produce the fuel and then move a vehicle 1km - of various energy sources were combined with issues relating to cost, storage and performance to give an overall value analysis.