The concept utilizes the auxiliary system of energy recuperation generated during the horse/trailer composition, or during descents, enabling the trailer to help the horse to go up hills in a manner that is safer and more efficient. Depending on the application, loading conditions, and the road, the fuel savings can reach up to 25%, also providing less component wear and less waste emission into the environment.
“We are introducing a completely disruptive solution, which inverts the current rationale, as the trailer starts helping the truck with effective operational gains for the client and to the environment”, observes Daniel Randon, reminding us that the result was possible due to the integrating companies’ synergy and knowledge sharing. Daniel Randon reminds us, in recent history, about the innovation introduced by the company involving the use of alternative materials, since 2005, in trailers with the Ecoplate panel. The PVC composite, which eliminated the use of wood and solved the sealing problems of cargo boxes and grain loss, now advances into a new generation, always committed to environmental balance.
A pioneer in Latin America, the storage and electric regeneration technology was inspired by Formula 1, which utilizes the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems) System. At Randon Companies, it was conceived and developed by the Technology and Innovation board of the Auto Parts Product Division, along with the Randon Technological Center (CTR) and with one of the group units, Suspensys. The latter will be responsible for the industrialization and commercialization of the system, called e-Sys.
It took two years of development together with the respective areas of engineering, laboratories, and testing ground. When entered into commercial scale, the system will also be available to the national and international market of cargo transportation.
How it works - The e-Sys system, which equips the Randon Implementos’ semi-trailer, operates from an electromechanical set formed by an Electronic Control Unit (ECU), battery, switch and WEG electric engine (coupled to an axle developed exclusively for this purpose). This set, managed by an intelligent algorithm specially developed to evaluate the use and operational conditions, allows the implement to relieve the horse’s efforts in certain conditions, such as ascents, which results in fuel savings. During breaking and decelerations, the engine starts to work as a generator, recuperating kinetic energy and storing it in batteries that will feed its own trailer’s electric engine. With this, the horse/trailer set gains efficiency and greater agility, with less wear on the break set and lower fuel consumption. “The main objective is to promote the energetic optimization of the cargo vehicle set, having Brazil’s factors as enhancers, such as the continental dimensions, irregular relief, and cargo and coupling legislations”, highlights Daniel Randon.
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