b'Engineer Innovation | AutomotiveHyundai Motor CompanyGlobal auto manufacturer uses Simcenter to optimize hybrid vehicle performanceKorean modernity Its not a coincidence that the Korean Over the last two centuries, mankindword for modernity is hyundai. The has dramatically evolved. And certainly,engineers of Hyundai Motor Group modern times have brought many(HGC), the third-largest vehicle benefits, including longer lives,manufacturer in the world, have comfort, communication means,experimented since the late 1980s with traveling tools and much more. But atalternative, more environmentally-the same time, continuous populationfriendly propulsion methods than growth, industrialization andtraditional internal combustion engines globalization have put enormous stress(ICEs), including flexible-fuel vehicles, on the environment. Unfortunately, itelectric vehicles and hybrid-electric was only in the last decades of thevehicles (HEVs). The latter are currently previous century that scientists startedthe most interesting, awaiting the to share persuasive evidence that weavailability of batteries that can allow a are slowly but certainly causinglarger range and additional irreparable damage to our planet.infrastructure to charge electric motors.The current generation is the first inComplex HEV engineeringhuman history to consider how toDesigning HEVs presents complex balance technological advancementchallenges, such as determining which with low environmental impact. As aconfiguration will perform the best for a result, engineers are challenged toparticular vehicle and its intended use. develop technologies that can satisfyThe main idea is to let the electrical operational and consumer requirementsmotor support the ICE so that it can while also meeting the demands for lowwork more efficiently, or even be energy consumption and emissions. Toreplaced for some drive cycles, like city fulfill those demands, many industries,use, for example. Significant particularly transportation, will requireengineering effort goes into the sizing a drastic modernization, bothof components and in defining the technologically and in terms of process.control algorithms that coordinates the 50'