2022 VI-GRADE ZERO PROTOTYPES SUMMIT

We want to provide you with the freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way. Volvo Cars is on a mission to sell only battery electric vehicles by 2030 and while doing so continue to deliver on our core values. Rapidly changing design prerequisites means that agility and flexibility in the design process is needed. This presentation will give an insight in how we develop and use the DiM150 to evaluate winter driving performance of future cars independent of season. Functionality of active control systems is developed and tested in the driving simulator before physical expeditions, thereby greatly enhancing the quality of the physical tuning sessions. To maximize realism and validity the motion cueing is optimized for low-μ conditions in a joint PhD project with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Roll feedback has been optimized using nonlinear optimization. To enhance the body slip feedback, a series of objective and subjective clinics are conducted at our proving ground in Jokkmokk targeting steady state and transient slip feedback. The results are used to correlate motion cueing and subjective evaluations in the DiM150."