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Electric Drives or Internal Combustion Engines?

Electric Drives or Internal Combustion Engines? GUEST C OMMENTARY Rudolf Ellensohn is Managing Director of Liebherr Machines Bulle SA in Bulle (Switzerland) Electric Drives or Internal Combustion Engines? Whether or not, in the future, off-road machines will continue help to get the oil companies on board, on this topic. The to be powered by internal combustion engines is a hotly-con- development and provisioning of alternative fuels, such as tested topic. Generally, the legislator should not be striving to PODE, can also – initially as additives for a period of transition achieve the desired improvements and set the desired path by – contribute to reducing emissions and increasing efficiency. specifying a technological solution, since this would all but The drive systems for off-road machines are going to change. exclude innovations in the drive sector. Over the past few dec- In most machines, hybridisation is already available, offering ades, there have been significant increases in efficiency for the energy recovery or energy storage. Practically every applica- drive systems of machines of practically every type. This will tion already has hydraulic drives installed, the potential of continue to be the case, through further optimisation of com- which is not yet optimally utilised in every application. ponents, usage-dependent adaptation and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ATZoffhighway worldwide Springer Journals

Electric Drives or Internal Combustion Engines?

ATZoffhighway worldwide , Volume 10 (1) – Mar 27, 2017

Electric Drives or Internal Combustion Engines?

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GUEST C OMMENTARY Rudolf Ellensohn is Managing Director of Liebherr Machines Bulle SA in Bulle (Switzerland) Electric Drives or Internal Combustion Engines? Whether or not, in the future, off-road machines will continue help to get the oil companies on board, on this topic. The to be powered by internal combustion engines is a hotly-con- development and provisioning of alternative fuels, such as tested topic. Generally, the legislator should not be striving to PODE, can also – initially...
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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Subject
Engineering; Automotive Engineering
eISSN
2366-1097
DOI
10.1007/s41321-017-0008-5
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Abstract

GUEST C OMMENTARY Rudolf Ellensohn is Managing Director of Liebherr Machines Bulle SA in Bulle (Switzerland) Electric Drives or Internal Combustion Engines? Whether or not, in the future, off-road machines will continue help to get the oil companies on board, on this topic. The to be powered by internal combustion engines is a hotly-con- development and provisioning of alternative fuels, such as tested topic. Generally, the legislator should not be striving to PODE, can also – initially as additives for a period of transition achieve the desired improvements and set the desired path by – contribute to reducing emissions and increasing efficiency. specifying a technological solution, since this would all but The drive systems for off-road machines are going to change. exclude innovations in the drive sector. Over the past few dec- In most machines, hybridisation is already available, offering ades, there have been significant increases in efficiency for the energy recovery or energy storage. Practically every applica- drive systems of machines of practically every type. This will tion already has hydraulic drives installed, the potential of continue to be the case, through further optimisation of com- which is not yet optimally utilised in every application. ponents, usage-dependent adaptation and

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Published: Mar 27, 2017

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