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DIN Standards Committee Municipal Services

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Overview

Freight and passenger traffic are increasing significantly, and the demands for drive technologies other than diesel engines - keyword: electric mobility - are growing accordingly. Due to this demand, the range of vehicles with alternative drive systems (for example, gas-powered, electric or hybrid drive) is also being increasingly expanded in the commercial vehicle sector. Furthermore, urban space as a living space is nowadays characterised by various problems in connection with emissions (for example, particulate matter). Refuse collection vehicles in particular represent a class of working machines with which the inhabitants of an urban area come into contact every day. Thus increased demands will be made on environmental compatibility and environmental efficiency for these vehicles in future. With regard to the introduction of vehicles with alternative drive systems, the question arises as to what extent this technology will contribute to an improvement in environmental efficiency. In particular, the question must be asked to as what extent the various drive concepts for these vehicles can be classified in terms of their improvement in environmental efficiency. Thus, the requirement for an assessment of environmental efficiency inevitably leads to the need for a quantitative evaluation of environmentally relevant parameters (emissions, energy requirements, resource requirements, etcetera). For an objective evaluation of the various environmental parameters, it is necessary to establish standardised framework conditions and specifications as well as standardised inspection and test procedures. Up to now standardised framework conditions and specifications for the testing and measurement of environmentally relevant parameters that take the significant change in framework conditions into account have largely been lacking for refuse collection vehicles. Consequently, there is also a lack of options for assessing the environmental efficiency of electromobility in refuse collection vehicles. Nor are there any standardised test procedures for this purpose, for example for determining consumption in typical refuse collection vehicle applications. This resulted in the task of developing the basis for the creation of this standard, which can and should also be transferred to other commercial vehicles. This specification specifies a uniform, reproducible test method for various drive units, chassis, constructions and lifting devices for the refuse collection vehicles described in DIN EN 1501 (all parts), with which energy consumption comparisons can be performed. This specification defines criteria for a reference area with regard to a synthesised tour (test circuit). This therefore serves to determine a representative test circuit and/or test bench cycle with which the energy consumption of the refuse collection vehicles to be inspected during reproducible test trips and/or test bench runs will be able to be evaluated and compared. The responsible standardization committee is Working Committee NA 051-03-06 AA "Umwelteffizienzklassen für Kommunalfahrzeuge" ("Environmental efficiency of municipal vehicles") at the DIN Standards Committee Municipal Services (NKT).

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Responsible national committee

NA 051-03-06 AA - Environmental efficiency of municipal vehicles