This on-demand webinar will describe the process of setting up and analyzing a DesignGUIDE design study, as well as cover a series of examples across different industries and disciplines. On-Demand Webinar Duration: 45 Minutes
Manufacturers developing vehicles and products must innovate in response to rapid industry transformations, satisfy heightening consumer expectations, and meet all cost, quality, and regulatory requirements on time.
Integrating simulation in the development process is critical to successfully meeting performance targets. However, traditional simulation results analysis generally does not directly indicate what design changes to make to improve performance. In addition, design decisions can be primarily driven and constrained by aesthetics, not only performance. Finally, the performance objectives of different engineering teams are often in conflict.
These challenges inevitably lead to suboptimal design decisions, missed performance targets, and development delays.
To respond to these challenges, the PowerFLOW 2020 release introduced DesignGUIDE, a brand-new capability that enables manufacturers to interactively explore the impact of design changes on performance. With DesignGUIDE, manufacturers can acquire intuitive design guidance to achieve both engineering performance targets and design requirements.
Watch this e-seminar to find out how you can leverage DesignGUIDE to:
Directly connect design to performance KPI’s
Make accurate, data-driven design decisions
Collaborate with designers
Account for multi-objective trade-offs
Key Highlights:
Integrated analysis of geometry changes and performance
Simulation-based design guidance is provided with a color map
Interactive design review environment
Multi-objective support across engineering disciplines
Vehicle manufacturers face challenges from all sides. As new competitors enter the industry the pressure is on to create stylish, differentiating vehicles and get them to market fast. But every vehicle must also pass stringent certification tests to satisfy regulators that it performs efficiently and meets emissions standards.
When aggressive styling leads the design process it can compromise aerodynamic performance, causing delays as engineers have to spend extra time putting things right so the vehicle can be certified for sale. Electric and autonomous vehicles intensify the challenge, bringing big opportunities to experiment with form but also increasing risk, as designers don’t yet have tried and trusted data to tell them what has worked in the past. As if this wasn’t issue enough, customers continue to expect the experience of driving any new car to match the promises of its eye-catching style. Trade-offs between looks and performance are no longer acceptable and to avoid them, manufacturers need a rapid, robust process that brings styling and engineering together from the start.
OVERCOME CHALLENGES THROUGH INTEGRATED MODELING & SIMULATION
Designers are under pressure to innovate but also to get it right-first-time. If the aesthetic theme causes problems with aerodynamics, for instance, it’s time-consuming, costly and sometimes not possible to rectify those issues later. As a result, designers need to be confident that as well as looking good, the vehicles they create will meet all performance targets.
So, just how can vehicle manufacturers accelerate innovation, while reducing risks and time to market? One crucial step is to integrate modeling and simulation from the beginning of the design cycle. This is because Simulation-driven design allows both stylists and analysts to create innovative concepts, refine details and meet performance targets. Simulation allows designers and engineers to create and test virtual models of vehicles while avoiding the time and cost of building multiple physical prototypes. In general, simulation enables the final product to be built faster, and to higher engineering standards, all while reducing costs. This is especially important in a crowded automotive market where manufacturers are under pressure to expand their range and offer custom configurations.
All the challenges listed above can be addressed through a simulation approach that helps designers and engineers connect the geometry between performance analysis and styling, while managing complexity across the entire development process. SIMULIA has solutions to do that.
POWERFLOW: THE SOLUTION
WHAT IS POWERFLOW?
PowerFLOW is SIMULIA’s computational fluid dynamics solution that simulates fluid flow over the vehicle with full-time accuracy. Unlike many fluid dynamics solutions which show only the average drag or condition of the flow field, PowerFLOW provides transient aerodynamic simulations using either ideal, uniform flow conditions or a realistic wind environment. Every element of the vehicle can be analyzed, enabling designers and engineers to quickly evaluate vehicle performance and drag, whether in ideal conditions similar to a wind tunnel or in the fluctuating conditions drivers will experience on the road. When this information is available early in the design cycle, it can be used to inform style decisions to ensure that great style does not mean compromises on performance. In fact, multiple vehicle manufacturers have already received approval for digital certification under WLTP using SIMULIA PowerFLOW.
ANALYSE THE IMPACT OF DESIGN CHANGES ON PERFORMANCE
DesignGUIDE, introduced in the 2020 release of PowerFLOW, empowers vehicle manufacturers to interactively explore the impact of design changes on performance. It provides feedback that connects performance to design in a graphical, intuitive way that gives stylists the freedom to craft appealing aesthetics while also achieving performance targets.
Using a color-coded surface map, DesignGUIDE provides a 3D representation of the vehicle which tells the stylist, designer or engineer how moving a surface in a given direction will affect aerodynamic performance. Colored areas indicate, for example, that pulling a certain surface outward will make the drag worse while pushing it in will improve it. It also provides vital information on the areas where designers can make styling choices that will have zero impact on the vehicle’s performance. This intuitive guidance leaves creative decisions firmly in the hands of designers, providing them with the information they need to combine aerodynamic performance with the aesthetics consumers want.
Crucially, by marrying creative freedom with the ability to optimize aerodynamic performance from the start of the design process, DesignGUIDE can rapidly accelerate vehicle development. Better communication between engineering and design teams, coupled with intuitive guidance, speed up the process of creating right-first-time designs that combine aesthetic with aerodynamic performance
INNOVATE, VALIDATE, AND OPERATE ON THE 3DEXPERIENCE PLATFORM
SIMULIA tools are available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which allows designers and engineers to collaborate seamlessly across disciplines and different teams throughout the organization. Breaking down silos increases the potential for innovative solutions that improve vehicle performance while freeing designers to create exciting new concepts. In addition, manufacturers and suppliers can share data easily and build accurate simulation models.
Detect product design flaws early
Measure the impact of design changes on performance
Compare design alternatives under operating conditions
Reduce the cost of material by simulation-driven lightweighting
Reduce or eliminate costs and time required to perform prototype testing
Gain certainty that the product will pass acceptance testing
CONCLUSION
In a competitive and rapidly changing global automotive industry, manufacturers need to be able to create stunning new vehicle designs that meet stringent certification requirements and deliver a superb driving experience on the road. With the solutions offered by SIMULIA, they can bring design and engineering decisions together from the very start of the design cycle, reducing the risk associated with new styling elements by providing intuitive guidance on how design decisions will affect aerodynamic performance. Integrating engineering insights into the design process gives vehicle stylists the freedom to create innovative, aesthetically pleasing new vehicles while ensuring they meet and exceed performance goals from the start. Virtual prototyping and testing of every variant also reduce the number of physical tests required, speeding up the certification process so manufacturers can get exciting new models to market faster.
Driving sustainability through Virtual Twin Technology, while enhancing Aerodynamic Performance with Advanced Fluid Simulation.
Volvo primarily manufactures heavy-duty trucks, buses, construction equipment, and diesel engines as well as marine applications, and like many OEMs, is beginning to produce electric vehicles also.
In today’s connected, global economy with its streamlined supply chain, goods are transported all over the world. As they make their way to a store near us or, increasingly, to our doorsteps, they were invariably transported there by trucks, at least for some part of that journey.
In an age of online shopping—especially in the wake of the recent COVID-19 lockdowns—trucking is critical to our daily lives. However, the transportation of goods and people today is mostly powered by fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases (GHG) when burned. In the US, the transportation sector accounted for 28% of the overall GHG emissions in 2018—and 23% of that sector emission came from medium and heavy-duty trucks [1]. This makes the trucking industry a major player in the effort to minimize tailpipe emissions of GHG. At Volvo Trucks, care for the environment is one of our core values.
The Project
Volvo Trucks believe in sustainable transport solutions. Although electric trucks are here, they know that their widespread adoption may take some time. Therefore, in addition to Volvo’s investment in electric and hydrogen-powered trucks, they are also focused on reducing the tailpipe GHG emissions of their diesel-powered trucks, to carry society through this transition period.
Raja Sengupta is responsible for the aerodynamic certification (for CO2) of Volvo’s North American product portfolio and is in charge of aerodynamic development for the SuperTruck II project sponsored by the Department of Energy. The SuperTruck project began in 2011 with a challenge to improve freight efficiency by 50%. SuperTruck II doubled that target to 100%. Sengupta worked on the original SuperTruck, as well as the ongoing SuperTruck II project, and describes the program as the greatest opportunity of his career.
Raja’s team had three key focus areas in this project:
Reducing the weight of the tractor and the trailer
Improving the efficiency of the powertrain
Drastically reducing the aerodynamic drag
CFD Simulation and Digital Twin Technology Drive Innovation
To improve the aerodynamic design of their baseline required extensive experimentation. Fortunately, Volvo Trucks is an advanced user of virtual experience twin technology (also known as “digital twin” technology). This powerful combination of virtual 3D design and multi-physics CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation allowed Raja and his team to experiment in the “Digital Wind Tunnel” with real-life accuracy, testing thousands of variations in a fraction of the time and cost that would be required for testing with physical prototypes.
Unlike physical testing, our virtual experience twin process offers detailed visual insight into the airflow around the vehicle. This is critical as it drives our iterative design process— every design change is based on learnings from the previous iteration, thereby continuously improving the aerodynamics until we reach saturation or diminishing returns.
After hundreds of tweaks and dozens of iterations, we were able to reduce the overall aerodynamic drag of ST1 by 40%, yielding a 20% direct improvement in fuel economy. But there were indirect benefits as well.
At a cruise speed of 65mph, almost half of the road load on a tractor-trailer comes from air resistance or aerodynamic drag. Therefore, by drastically reducing the drag, we were able to downsize our engine—from a 13L 485HP in the baseline to an 11L 425HP in ST1. This reduced the weight of the tractor (thereby increasing payload and therefore, freight efficiency) and lowered the engine cooling demand from what was originally anticipated, which meant we could use a smaller cooling package. This resulted in a narrower hood, a smaller grille opening, and a much lower cooling drag.
Project Update: Paving the road to success
On the heels of the success of ST1, the DOE initiated the Supertruck II (ST2) program in 2016 and doubled the challenge—to achieve 100% improvement over the same 2009 baseline.
The project is still ongoing as we enter the final, build phase. However, the tractor-trailer design was frozen a while back, a culmination of a similar process as ST1 powered by the same virtual experience twin technology. This time, the team were able to reduce the overall drag by 50% over our 2009 baseline—almost 20% over ST1. MY2009 Baseline Volvo Supertruck 2.
Supertruck is similar to a concept car; while many of the improvements already are, or soon will be, incorporated into our commercial offerings, others need more work to bring down their cost. And Supertruck II isn’t the end of the journey: they recently announced Supertruck III program will focus on battery-electric and fuel-cell-powered vehicles—the designs that will move the trucking industry from a transitional period of lower tailpipe GHG emissions to one with zero tailpipe emissions.
Discover PowerFLOW
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATION SOFTWARE IMPROVING PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Using the PowerFLOW suite, engineers evaluate product performance early in the design process prior to any prototype being built — when the impact of change is most significant for design and budgets. PowerFLOW imports fully complex model geometry and accurately and efficiently performs aerodynamic, aeroacoustic and thermal management simulations.
Key Capabilities:
Fast automated setup: Create and import geometry, define initial & boundary conditions and choose measurements to record during simulation with this application. The intuitive, fast interface application provides an entirely automated fluid grid generation solution.
True rotating geometry: PowerFLOW can simulate true roating geometry to optimize performance and noise in systems, such as wheel aerodynamics, brakes, HVAC systems, cooling fans and more.
Coupled simulations: PowerFLOW suite has the ability to seamlessly integrate PowerTHERM surface termperature & heat fluxes technologies and PowerACOUSTICS aeroacoustic noise technologies to existing simulated designs.
Digital wind tunnel: The digital wind tunnel model includes static and moving ground plane modeling and boundary layer suction points to match that of real-life experimental wind tunnels.
Analyze designs: Upon simulation completion, PowerVIZ analyses results quickly and PowerINSIGHT automates results analysis.
Rapid turnaround time: Once a surface mesh model is prepared, the same model may be used to perform additional simulations. Setup, grid generation, simulation and results analysis can be performed in less than a day.
Sources:
Originally published: https://www.3ds.com/fileadmin/PRODUCTS/SIMULIA/IMG/products/PowerFLOW/Volvo-case_studyUPDATED.pdf
[1] “Fast Facts on Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, 8 June 2021, www. epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhousegas-emissions.
[2] Lobner, Peter. “SuperTrucks—Revolutionizing the Heavy Tractor-Trailer Freight Industry with Science.” The Lyncean Group of San Diego, 3 Apr. 2020, https://lynceans.org/tag/ doe-supertruck/.
[3] Delgado, Oscar and Nic Lutsey. “THE U.S. SUPERTRUCK PROGRAM” https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/ publications/ICCT_SuperTruck-program_20140610.pdf.
Discover the next innovative step in optimizing your manufacturing and supply chain operations. Join us to hear from industry experts, experience live demos and network with industry leaders at the DELMIA World Tour 2022.
Join us for an exciting day-long event at DELMIA World Tour 2022 as we dive into industry challenges and how DELMIA solutions power innovation, resiliency and sustainability.
The day will include:
A plenary session filled with industry thought leaders and DELMIA customers
Focused breakout tracks for Industrial Engineering, Planning & Optimization and Manufacturing & Operations
Live demos of DELMIA’s collaborative tools and solutions
Variety of networking opportunities
DELMIA World Tour 2022 will help prepare your company to meet both the demands of today and the challenges of tomorrow.
This year’s virtual 3DEXPERIENCE Modeling & SimulationConference will focus on game-changing technology from CATIA, SOLIDWORKS and SIMULIA, inspiring managers and leaders to design and innovate the next generation of products on one business platform.
When: OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2022
This global virtual conference will empower attendees to truly absorb the benefits of moving to an integrated design and simulation approach that cannot be achieved with disconnected tools.
What to expect :
Keynote speakers from large OEMs showcasing the benefits of modeling and simulation (MODSIM) and how it helps future-proof design strategies
Panel discussions with users who are in the process of moving to a MODSIM approach
Demonstrations of industry workflows, putting MODSIM to the test
Who should attend?
Businesses wanting to improve productivity and collaboration during product development
Leaders interested in business sustainability and breaking down silos within the design process
Vice presidents, managers, and senior engineers looking for real-world examples of how to innovate and transform their operations
Once you have purchased Roles in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, you now need to know how to “turn it on” and use it. There are a few key pieces of information that will make your Platform experience go smoothly.
You will receive an email from ECO-OrderAdmin@3ds.com. If not, make sure to check your Spam and Junk folders. There are multiple emails that you will receive from Dassault Systemes — you must act on these emails to activate your private space in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform:
First email CLOSA: This is the licensing agreement. The CLOSA must be completed before doing anything in your private 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Second email Tenant Activation: After the CLOSA is completed, you should then receive another email from ECO-OrderAdmin@3ds.com. In this email, the desired Platform Administrator needs to activate the tenant by following the link in the email.
View the video below to learn how to accept your invitation as the first administrator of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and get up and running quickly.
3DEXPERIENCE Platform Administration Training Course
Having chosen the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for your business, our training team can help you to establish an effective plan for implementation and get you started on the path to long-term success. The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Administration course teaches you the basics of administrating and configuring the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Administrators will learn how to manage users and roles, how to create and share dashboards, how to configure the cloud storage spaces in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, and best practices for configuring the platform to work with SOLIDWORKS.
What You Will Learn
3DEXPERIENCE Platform Overview
Introduction to Platform Management
Storage Management
Creating 3D Spaces
Managing Users
Creating User Groups
Assigning Roles
Creating Bookmarks
Managing Users
Creating User Groups
Assigning Roles
Creating Bookmarks
Note: This course runs online for 3 days (2 hours per day) and a 3DEXPERIENCE Tenant is required.
Los Angeles-based Xos is on a mission to decarbonize commercial transportation and facilitate fleet owners’ seamless transition from traditional internal combustion engines to 100% battery-electric.
As demand for its electric trucks and fleet services continues to grow, the US company needed an end-to-end platform to manage all product development and accelerate time-to-market.
The company worked with Dassault Systèmes business partner Adaptive Corporation – A TriMech Company, to implement the 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud Platform, complete with CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA apps, to bring its design, engineering and manufacturing processes together in a single, secure, standards-based environment. Xos uses the platform to industrialize production and manage each vehicle throughout its lifecycle. Watch the video below to learn more:
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables Xos to meet its customers’ design requirements while keeping costs down as it brings more new vehicles to market. Benefiting from accurate data, robust design capabilities, concurrent engineering and full transparency, the company gains agility to develop its electric vehicles at speed. The platform is the foundation on which to further grow Xos’ business and launch innovative new products and services.
Xos is a fleet service provider and OEM dedicated to decarbonizing commercial truck fleets. Founders Dakota Semler and Giordano Sordoni, two former fleet owners and operators, sought to build a solution for the issues they faced first-hand around increasing emissions regulations and the rising costs of maintenance and fuel. Their Los Angeles-based company designs and manufactures 100% battery-electric Class 5 to 8 medium- and heavy-duty trucks that travel on last mile, back-to-base routes of up to 270 miles per day.
“About 70% of Class 3 to Class 8 commercial vehicles operate on routes that are under 200 miles per day,” said Dakota Semler, CEO of Xos. “They return to base every night where they could access dedicated charging infrastructure. And that makes them ideal for electrification. We don’t need to wait for the technology to mature to be able to solve these kinds of routes.”
Today, dozens of Xos battery-electric trucks operated by the likes of FedEx Ground, Loomis and UniFirst are out on the roads making deliveries to households and businesses across America. Customers choose Xos based on its ability to deliver vehicles that meet their requirements in terms of range, payload capacity, cost efficiency, ease of operation, and ease of charge.
“Apart from us, there’s nobody building ground-up commercial electric vehicles engineered for this space that are actually holding fleets accountable and truly delivering a total cost of ownership saving,” Semler said. “Starting from the battery pack, we engineer durability into our vehicle systems. We also focus on delivering total cost of ownership savings in under three to five years. By engineering our vehicles to achieve that, we’ve been delivering value to customers from day one.”
Fast growth, high demand
The demand for Xos’ products and services is high. To keep up, the company expanded its workforce fourfold since it launched in 2016 and opened a new 85,000 square foot headquarters in Los Angeles in May 2021 as well as two new flexible manufacturing facilities. As the scope and scale of its company continues to grow, Xos realized it needed a powerful technology platform to manage all its product development processes in one place.
“As we’ve grown, one of the biggest challenges we’ve faced is high demand, and it’s not slowing down,” Semler said. “It has been really challenging meeting that demand with our existing systems and manufacturing capacity. Prior to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we had separate computer-aided design (CAD), product lifecycle management (PLM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems operating in disparate environments. As we switched between them, we risked making mistakes and experiencing carryover issues. Now, we can incorporate a lot more of the value chain into a single system. Anything we can do to shorten that product development lifecycle enables us to go to market and achieve a faster return on our investment, and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables that.”
Xos selected the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud with the key objective of unifying its technology and accelerating its product development strategy.
“The biggest business impact of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the ability for us to quickly get up to speed with the rest of the market,” said Matt Sommer, Director of Product and Development Operations and IT at Xos. “Being an earlier stage company, it’s difficult for us to quickly implement all the tools and processes that we need to be able to operate a full business. With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud, we’re able to do that quickly without having to worry about IT implementation and other work that would distract us from making great products.”
“The 3DEXPERIENCE platform has enabled us to deliver our technology in a much more cohesive way,” Semler added.
“Operating in the cloud allowed us to set up our infrastructure early and correctly so that as we scale production and grow our engineering teams, we know the infrastructure will continue to support us.”
A cloud implementation made sense for Xos on many levels, particularly as it gave the company access to enterprise-level IT without the upfront investment.
“We chose the cloud versus on premise, because it gives us all the tools and processes that we need to be successful without needing all the infrastructure in place,” Sommer said. “The cloud is becoming more and more advanced every day, and we believe that the tools and features available in the cloud are on par with what you could get with an on-premise installation.”
Xos partnered with Dassault Systèmes business partner Adaptive to implement the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
“What we value most from our collaborative relationship with Adaptive is the ability to communicate, get support, and receive services as we need them to keep our business operating”
Building a strong value network
As it works around the clock to keep up with demand, Xos values working closely and securely with its value network.
“ENOVIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows us to collaborate efficiently with our partner network by seamlessly adding them to our environments and giving them secure access to the specific data they need,” Sommer said. “We manage innovation with our value network by being collaborative, so we really appreciate the ability to interface with everyone quickly in an efficient way that’s not through email.”
“Being on the cloud allows interoperability across time zones, across companies and, ultimately, leverages the team aspect of working together with our partners,” Semler added. “In a traditional CAD environment, you just don’t have that flexibility. A team in another time zone can carry on with a particular project and then the next morning we can pick up from where they left off. We’re getting much greater levels of productivity with this approach.”
Custom design
Xos’ proprietary battery system, the X-Pack, and modular chassis, the X-Platform, are purpose-built for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles.
“One of the core reasons our customers come to us is for our technology,” Semler said. “It starts with our proprietary battery system, which we’ve built from the cell level up. We also develop the software to control the vehicle, operate all of the power electronics as well as the onboard safety systems. And our modular chassis platform allows us to accommodate a wide range of different commercial vehicle use cases. Everything from a parcel delivery truck, all the way up to a Class 8 tractor or vocational vehicle.”
With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Xos manages all these different elements within the same environment.
“One of the biggest impacts of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that we feel every single day is the ability to scale and grow beyond our existing footprint of engineering and design,” Semler said.
“Things like parametric modeling and the embedded tools for routing and the specific engineering and surfacing tools – we have all of that capability within one system. And then to directly carry it forward through our PLM is pretty innovative. It enables us to move quickly to operate with leaner teams and, ultimately, to do more with fewer resources.”
These capabilities allow the company to develop custom-built truck fleets that meet customers’ specific safety, security, reliability and sustainability requirements.
“ENOVIA configuration management has been key in our ability to do this for our customers,” Sommer said. “Because of the nature of our business, we have a highly configurable product and ENOVIA allows us to keep track of all variations and manage change in a much more efficient way than we were able to previously.”
The company is now in the process of implementing DELMIA, which it will use to design and manage its growing number of manufacturing plants.
“DELMIA is key to our success over the next few years,” Sommer said. “As we grow as a company, we need the ability to quickly and efficiently boot up new facilities around the world. We truly believe that DELMIA is going to be one of the key reasons that we’re able to do this, especially with access to all its rich features on the cloud so we can deploy it from anywhere.”
Xos’ fleet-as-a-service offering, Xosphere™, provides customers with a comprehensive suite of products and services – such as charging infrastructure, vehicle maintence, and leasing and financing options – all available in one intuitive user platform to help them more easily make the transition from diesel vehicles to electric.
“When we deploy any Xos electric vehicle to a customer, we have to deliver the associated charging infrastructure and maintenance services with it, which we manage on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” Semler said. “We have an internal saying that technology sells our first truck to a customer, but maintenance, service and support is what sells the next trucks after that. Maintenance is an incredibly important aspect, particularly for commercial vehicles operating on the road so long every single day. It really becomes one of the core cost centers for fleets to manage and, ultimately, try to reduce. By handling all aspects of the vehicle on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we can generate better uptime performance. We also now have the visibility to deliver all the associated services and support they need.”
As Xos looks to the future, the company hopes to make it even easier for fleet owners and operators to embrace electric mobility.
“We have a lot of exciting things coming down the pipeline, including new products that we’re engineering within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” Semler said. “We’re also using it to build out our portfolio of services, which we refer to as the Xosphere, such as our fleet management tools – service ticketing, vehicle support and energy management. Ultimately, we believe that the Xosphere on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will be the single tool that fleets will use to manage all their fleet assets, not just Xos trucks.”
DISCOVER HOW YOU CAN LEVEL UP YOUR ELECTRIC PROJECTS
Electric vehicles are nothing new. They have been in the picture since the dawn of the automobile. But they never became industrially relevant because gasoline was a cheaper energy source than electricity. Now green motives are turning the wheel. Automakers have to reinvent the traditional powertrain and embrace the shift to electric.
Xos is a leading fleet services provider and original equipment manufacturer of Class 5 through Class 8 battery-electric vehicles and the tools to adopt them. Xos vehicles and fleet management software are purpose-built for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles that travel on last-mile, back-to-base routes of up to 270 miles per day. The company leverages its proprietary technologies to provide commercial fleets with zero-emission vehicles that are easier to maintain and more cost-efficient on a total cost of ownership (TCO) basis than their internal combustion engine counterparts.
Adaptive Corporation – A TriMech Company enables innovation by applying technology to streamline business processes, reduce costs and improve efficiencies throughout the product life cycle. Adaptive’s unique “Digital to Physical” product portfolio includes CAD, CAE, PLM, business analytics, metrology and 3D printing. Our solutions help our clients reduce costs and cycle times throughout product planning, development, manufacturing and after-market service.
