Wolfgang Steiger (Volkswagen AG)
Wolfgang Steiger (Volkswagen AG)
Future Powertrains - The base of sustainable individual Mobility
Abstract
A
sustainable mobility system for private passenger transport has to react much
on future individual and societal needs, resulting in more diversified cars and
powertrains. Especially the needs of long distance transport in rural areas and
inner-city transport in the growing number of mega cities require different
technical answers. So a
two way roadmap may be formed, with one side clearly being focused on
combustion engines with some electrical support and a second way highly
concentrated on electrification using batteries or fuel cells and hydrogen as
energy carrier.
For longer mobility with distances
of more than 400 km, there is no real alternative to the combustion engine with
liquid hydrocarbons, where as increasing electrification of powertrain systems
up to all electric traction is driven by the idea to supply mobility with new alternative
energy sources and realize locally emission-free mobility. The presentation will describe
this strategy and show examples for each step of the Volkswagen roadmap.
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Wolfgang Steiger is the director of powertrain
research for the Volkswagen Group.
His skills are in powertrain development and design.
During his career he was involved with Robert Bosch
GmbH, Battelle Institute and Adam Opel AG finally there being responsible for
diesel engine development and test. In 1997 he joined the Volkswagen AG group
research department. He is responsible for powertrain research, including
diesel and gasoline engines, transmissions, hybrids, batteries, fuel cells,
engine electronics and fuels.
He gave more than 100 publications, presentations and
lectures in several Universities including in China. Wolfgang Steiger is member
of the scientific research board of the German Car Manufacturers FVV and of the
Mineral oil industry DGMK
Wolfgang Steiger is engaged in several European
organizations:
- Chairman of the European Road Transport Advisory Council
ERTRAC
- Steering team member of the
- European
Biofuels Technology Platform
- Energy Science
Center ETH Zürich
- Alliance for Synthetic Fuels for Europe
Wolfgang Steiger graduated from the Technical University
Darmstadt with a degree in mechanical engineering and holds an PhD (Dr.-Ing.)
from the same university.
In 2005 Wolfgang Steiger has been rewarded with the
“Prof. Ferdinand Porsche Prize”
