China, the world’s largest automotive market, recently pledged to ban fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
They’re not alone in the battle against emissions. Norway wants all passenger cars sold in 2025 to be
zero-emission vehicles. The Netherlands wants 50% of cars sold to be electric vehicles (EV) by 2025. The European
Union is driving a mandatory lower target for emissions in 2020. India is pushing to sell only electric cars by
2030. This is just the beginning of regulations we’ll see around the world.
Carmakers are working to meet the growing number of electric vehicle mandates around the world.
Lowered emissions are driving
the growth of
HEVs/EVs.
New emissions regulations position electric car development as an important priority for carmakers. It puts enormous
pressure on them to quickly roll out electric and hybrid vehicles (HEVs/EVs), a market that’s poised for
growth. The combination of regulatory and market indicators coupled with long automotive development cycles requires
automakers to begin the development of HEVs/EVs systems now — before the next wave of processors for
electrification are available.
How do carmakers tap the growing opportunities in the HEV/EV market? How do they quickly design next-generation
electrification and combustion systems to meet new and emerging restrictions on emissions and fuel targets?
GreenBox pushes development ahead for next-generation HEVs/EVs
As a response to these factors, NXP released the GreenBox development platform for next-generation hybrid
and fully-electric vehicles. GreenBox allows automakers and suppliers to begin early development of next-generation
hybrid and electric vehicle applications on NXP’s S32 automotive
processing multicore platform based on Arm Cortex technology – before silicon is available.
GreenBox is the development platform for the upcoming S32 electrification MCUs that will address the increasingly
intensive computation and memory requirements for tomorrow’s HEV/EV applications, including optimal
battery use, fuel savings, and lowered emissions across diverse topography and common tasks such as idling and
braking.
How carmakers can use GreenBox
When an HEV/EV car is moving, it draws from all sorts of data, including topography, distance, grade, and
weather. Control algorithms need to aggregate these conditions so that the car determines when to toggle between
electric and combustion in hybrid models and also make sophisticated energy decisions based on a planned journey. An
electric car also needs to make decisions about when to charge and when to expend energy based on this data.
GreenBox electrification development platform is used to develop these control algorithms – and test them
– in a real user environment before the final silicon is available.
GreenBox is available in two configurations. The first is for development of fully-electric vehicles and supports
motor control and battery management capabilities. The second is for development of hybrid applications, which
supports both electric vehicle features as well as traditional engine control capabilities.
With increasing regulatory restrictions on emissions and stricter fuel economy targets around the world, both
traditional automakers and new market entrants need development tools to design electric and hybrid vehicles
quickly. GreenBox offers a simple, out-of-the-box development path for HEV/EV designs that will use the S32
electrification MCU.
Resources and Related Links
See technical specifications at GreenBox
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