THE PROPOSAL OF THE CALCULATION ALGORITHM PREDICTING THE REAL VEHICLE FUEL CONSUMPTION

Abstract

In the present times energy saving is one of the most challenging tasks, faced by the modern society. The automotive industry experiences it to a very high extent, not only because of the obvious facts about consuming fossil fuels (which are limited), but also because it attracts common attention of the society itself. The automotive industry is being forced by the authorities to limit the fuel consumption of the produced vehicles by means of new legislation (RDE measurements, WLTP, progressing limitation of the internal combustion engines for driving vehicles, etc.). Although the knowledge about the fuel and energy consumption is very rich, there are still aren’t many representative procedures to predict the fuel consumption of a vehicle. The paper tries to collect the knowledge of the physical laws applied to describe vehicle motion, present commonly available technology (GPS) and simulation calculation methods to develop a tool to accurately predict the real vehicle fuel consumption.

Keywords:
fuel consumption, vehicles, measurements, simulation