New European Driving Cycle

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Europe

NEDC ECE 15 EUDC

United States

FTP 72 FTP 75

SFTP US06 SFTP SC03

Japan

10-15 Mode

The New European Driving Cycle is a driving cycle consisting of four repeated ECE-15 driving cycles and an Extra-Urban driving cycle, or EUDC. The NEDC is supposed to represent the typical usage of a car in Europe, and is used, among other things, to assess the emission levels of car engines.

1 Plot
2 Criticism
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Note: The old European driving cycle ECE-15 driving cycle lies between the time period 0s to 800s. For the urban drive cycle the ECE-15 driving cycle is used, and for urban/sub-urban drive cycle the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) is used to simulate representative driving conditions.

[edit] Criticism

The NEDC was constructed with old power-per-vehicle-mass and low maximum velocities. The transient velocities are much steeper in practice and more dynamic caused by the power surplus of modern turbocharged engines^[1]. Also, the maximum cycle speed does not represent the velocities currently seen on European trunk roads, dual carriageways and motorways which often tend towards 160 km/h (100mph).