www.automotivecouncil.co.uk

Dr. Graham Hoare

Ford Motor Company Chair – Automotive Council Technology Group

AESIN Conference – 20th October 2016

The Automotive Council… Managing the Automotive Transformation

Automotive Council UK

A continuous value creation cycle enabled through co-operation and team work

Approach: The Automotive Council was formed in 2009 :

To strengthen and promote sustainable growth of the automotive sector in the UK through enhanced dialogue and co-operation between UK government and automotive industry

• Define, enable & deliver the right technology technologies

• Optimise business environment for the UK Automotive sector

• Address skills challenges facing the sector

Automotive Council UK

3 Complementary Workstreams to drive all facets of the Automotive Council Agenda

Structure:

Workstreams

Main Aims

• Develop technology roadmaps, future research challenges and identify where the UK can develop competitive advantage

• Advise on automotive R&D investment opportunities to foster a stronger UK engineering, supply and manufacturing base

• Prepare and own the UK Automotive Technology Strategy

Supply Chain

Business

Environment & Skills

Technology

Energy

Storage

Light

weight Structures

Intelligent

Mobility

Electric

Machines

IC

Engines (Thermal

Propulsion )

5 ‘Sticky’

Technologies

Technology Strategy - Where to focus ?

5 Sticky Technologies – providing direction for technology innovation & process focus

Great progress to date and significant achievements. Vital to keep evolving & fostering a collaborative / innovative ecosystem to keep a step ahead.

Industrial Strategy - Technology Update

Strategic Activity STATUS

Invest £1 billion over 10 years in a new Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)

Improve coordination and collaboration with the academic research community

Improve collaboration/access from EU R&D funding opportunities

Construct additional roadmaps for future technology needs

Identify required high value manufacturing technologies

Create an energy storage roadmap which includes non-electric

Create a UK intelligent mobility demonstration program to test technology and business effectiveness

Enhance collaboration on innovation and technology between Motorsport and mainstream automotive

Establish a Design workstream to build UK strength

Automotive technologies: the UK’s current capability

Goal : Scan for

Future R&D Focus

Areas / Roadmaps

Enhancing the Research through to Manufacture ‘Pipe-line’ - cohesive coordination of the Eco-system

Goal : Improved co-ordination

between Academic & Industrial

Research

“Academic Research Networks”

– Academic automotive research

– Funding bodies

– Industry R&D leaders and

teams

Added focus on key challenges

the industry needs to solve while

maintaining academic

independence APC “Spokes” add specific functional, technological and regional centres of excellence

Power Electronics Spoke - University of Nottingham

Electrical Energy Storage - University of Warwick

Digital Engineering & Test - Loughborough University (London)

Electric Machines Spoke – Newcastle University

ICE Thermal Efficiency – University of Brighton

ICE System Efficiency – University of Bath

Opportunity to align APC “Spokes”

with Academic “Challenge

Networks”

Co-ordination with

APC to publish

roadmaps and R&D

agendas

New roadmaps

Future Fuels & Energy

Virtual Product Dev’t

Processes

Next Gen Electrical /

Electronic

Architectures

Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)

Future Technology R&D Co-ordination

• Re evaluation of priorities based on :

• Achievements to date

• Horizon scanning & outlook

• Capability Study Insights

• Priorities determined to enhance UK technical competitiveness & productivity

• 6 core workstreams

• Leveraged APC and Cross sectorial Connected & Autonomous Vehicle (IM-PACT UK ) activities to help momentum

• Automotive Council to provide industry technical consensus critical topics i.e. Air Quality

NEW STRATEGIC FOCUS identified to advance Insight, Strategy & Implementation on future automotive technology priorities

Future Technology Focus – 2016+

Continuous pressure on improving Fuel Economy / CO2 in all regions. Traditional Powertrain improvements no longer cost effective Driving increasing P/T electrification

Electrification opportunities at all voltage levels: 12V / 48V: mHEV’s. Higher voltages: HEV’s, PHEV’s, BEV’s

Growth of Powertrain Electrification

US

CAN

EU

Brazil

China

4.7%

4.7%

5.1%

3.4%

5.5%

Average Annual FE / CO2 Improvement Required by Regulation (2015-20)

Systems simulation, modelling & optimisation of Automotive Hardware & Software should unlock lower costs, more robust solutions, shorter validation times & competitive advantage.

Objective : • To create a view for the future of digital

engineering & virtual product development/ manufacture in the Automotive Sector for the UK.

• To Define the areas of growth & seek to strengthen UK capability.

Virtual DV / Digital Engineering Insight

Digital Product Development Roadmap

Digital Engineering & Test Centre – APC Spoke, London

Halving the time, Doubling the value

• Bringing the value of next-generation Digital Engineering into automotive

• Facilitating Cross sector activities • Supporting Core programs, Collaborative R&D and Research

DETC Supports:

• The four Automotive Council Strategic Technologies, and Manufacturing

• Digital Engineering in Product and Manufacturing-process design

• Cross sector links to the Gaming and Digital industry

• Roadmap generation to prioritise the development of future digital technologies

Supporting the ‘HOW’: APC’s Digital Engineering & Test Centre is open to all, open to new ideas and open for business.

World Class Cross functional Initial partners led by University of Loughborough in London

Intelligent Mobility – Technology Road Mapping

Intelligent Mobility & Autonomous Vehicle technology focus accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Major progress & clarity emerging supported by Government policy and stimulus.

• 12 key challenges to improve mobility in UK

• Developing solutions of these challenges will meet UK travelers needs and unlock potential revenue opportunities

• Solutions will need to include a combination of Access, Automation, Demand & Supply and Integration

Innovative Road mapping thought leadership process initiated based on TN key challenges…

“During the next decade, we see autonomous vehicles as having as significant an impact as Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago” - Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company CEO

will mass produce AV for

ride sharing applications by 2021 w/ level 4

autonomy.

Autonomy

2021

Today’s cars have roughly seven times more code than a Boeing 787 airliner!

Module software complexity grew by factor between 3 & 7 from ‘08 to ‘11 Software increasingly provides the user experiences which differentiates car brands

Growth of Vehicle Software TREND: FUNCTIONAL GROWTH IS GOING TO CONTINUE AND WILL EVEN ACCELERATE

Today’s vehicle typically has 400+ features, ~2000 functions, 20k software components & 100m lines of code

Modules moving from one function / module to many functions within a single module. Very complex X-zone domain functions drive more powerful integration sites - connected car realised.

Sensor fusion & powerful centralised computing sites deliver Autonomous functions. The estimated value of the global automotive electronics industry will be $275bn / year by 2020.

Growth of Vehicle Electronics

Distributed E/E Architecture

Domain centralised E/E

Architecture

Vehicle centralised E/E Architecture

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- Each function has its own ECU

- Functions are integrated within modules & powerful domain ECU’s provide X-zone functions - Connected car with on-board modem

- Sensor fusion & very powerful, centralised computing sites, an enabler for Autonomous Vehicles

- Cloud computing Some vehicle functions will move to the cloud

Autonomous vehicle module 2kW power

Source: IHS Forum :

Berlin 12-14th May,

2014

The future of the Automotive industry has a strong dependence upon success in the EE domain

Summary

Automotive Council : • Steering the UK Automotive landscape through the technology transformation. • Seeking solutions to unite Industry, Academia & Government to deliver a joined up ecosystem to promote

innovation and industrialisation.

1’s & 0’s take over the automotive world!: • The balance between traditional mechanical skills for body, chassis and P/T and EE skills are being turned on

their head, we need to prepare for the new world: - The value of electronics & software will be the dominant cost of the vehicle within a smatter of years, for

high series vehicles this is already happening. - The features which customers want and those which provide differentiation between brands are

increasingly being driven by the EE domain • Power Train electrification at all voltage levels, becomes increasingly important to deliver CO2 roadmaps for all

regions of the globe • As we move into Smart Mobility & Cloud Computing, software is now ‘Beyond The Car’ • There are major opportunities to ‘engage with the auto industry’:

• ‘New Dawn’ for software to support autonomous ‘mega module’ functions • Skill sets transition . Growth within the normal automotive supply base