Since the Euro 6d-TEMP stage, vehicle emissions must be tested on the road, in addition to laboratory testing. The RDE test must last from 90 to minutes. Each segment must cover a distance of at least 16 km. NOx emissions must be measured on all Euro 6 vehicles—passenger cars and light-commercial vehicles. CO emissions also have to be measured and recorded on all Euro 6 vehicles. RDE emission limits are defined by multiplying the respective emission limit by a conformity factor CF for a given emission.
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But before they're warm you're really struggling. That could be additional technology or it could be a lower state of tune for the engine. But because you can't accept any reduction in power you have to find other means of getting that power back. And also, on motorcycles, the more difficult they are to package.
So you want to improve the engine-out emissions as much as possible by improving combustion and optimising valve overlap, things like this, to minimise the emissions that come out of the engine. That also has a benefit in terms of driveability and fuel consumption. For high-performance, high-revving bikes, the rules seem perfectly tailored for a push towards variable valve timing technology.
Variable valve timing has got a number of benefits, not just enabling emissions compliance but also improving torque curve shape, driveability, combustion stability at light load, and fuel consumption.
They're all positives for the performance of the vehicle. The negatives are, of course, it costs more and you've got to package it. But if you think about how motorcycle technology has developed, it's normally legislation that's forced the issue and then it becomes commonplace after a while and nobody thinks about it anymore.
Take fuel injection, for example, and drive by wire. All these things have basically been forced on the industry by legislation but now you wouldn't do without them. Remember turbochargers on motorcycles in the old days? They were horrendous things, much too big for the engines, they were waste-gated for most of the operating envelope of the engine and very difficult to control. But now turbos are fitted to little cc cars in Japan and they're physically the right size for motorcycles.
The motorcycle industry alone never had the volumes that turbocharger suppliers would be interested in gearing up for.
It's economy of scale. Now you can pick up a turbocharger off the shelf that's the right size for your cc or cc motorcycle, and that supplier makes millions of them for cars. They're cheap, they're physically the right size, and so then you can start thinking about an application using correctly-sized components.
The same is true of VVT. Because the inertia of the powertrain and the whole vehicle is so light, and there's a huge power-to-weight ratio, any small driveability issues will be felt by the rider very easily. It has to be refined very well. For a superbike engine, you've got to have it for the future. We've been working on a number of different motorcycle types for a number of different manufacturers, so we've got a pretty good handle on what's needed for the various different types.
For supersports bikes it's about maintaining or enhancing performance, while for smaller bikes it's about minimising the add-on cost. That's what we're helping people with today and we'll be continuing to help them until the legislation is in place. High performance engines are already really well optimised and they can't afford to lose any power, so to achieve an improvement in emissions they're looking at additional technologies. Whereas low-cost motorcycles have other challenges; they want to remain low-cost, so they can't afford to add anything that will increase the sale price of the vehicle.
That means using the minimum amount of technology possible. You might have noticed that s are fading away but there's been a push in slightly higher-capacity middleweight bikes.
A lot of the big manufacturers have increased the capacity of their middleweight bikes, allowing them to achieve similar levels of performance to before but without being so highly-tuned.
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