The car of the future will depend on a reliable supply of energy and data. This is why LEONI is developing new solutions like an electronic power distribution switch and a universal gateway, both of which are now about to go into production.
Will it be a compact robot taxi? A high-performance electric sports car? Or a self-driving limousine whose car seats turn into a bed at night? No-one really knows what the car of the future will look like. But one thing’s certain today: during the next ten years, the automobile is going to change in ways unlike anything that has been seen in its history. Not only will the vehicle change due to electromobility and autonomous driving, but the cars will also become part of a networked mobility system in which a temporary use – rather than car ownership – will be the core business model.
It’s also certain that the power and dataflow will be significantly higher in the vehicles of the future. Yet this doesn’t necessarily mean that more and more on-board controllers and data or power lines will need to be added. Instead, the long-term trend for most manufacturers is towards a centralized architecture where a computer equipped with high-performance processors is responsible for running everything. These kinds of architectures also change the ways in which circuits and fuses are organized for electrical components: rather than using electrical relays and thermal fuses, solutions will utilize more and more purely electronic and semiconductor-based systems.
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SOURCE: Leoni
