E-Active Body Control / Active Body Control Reminder
You probably already know the classic Active Body Control that has been around for several years. This is a Mercedes device that combines several technical elements to improve comfort and behavior on the road (although it is primarily aimed at comfort, when we focus on third-age customers, this is above all!).
This article will be updated as we filter out more information because there are a limited number of them at the moment.
Active body control reminder
Magic Body Control is a chassis control device that combines controlled damping, air suspension and a camera to explore the road. Thus, it allows the position to be controlled by a computer, thus avoiding the use of an anti-roll bar. The running gear is controlled (suspension trim height and damping comfort) by a computer that is powered by many sensors (notably a camera that was added to the unit, then relaying the Active BC name to the Magic BC). So we have to improve the behavior but also the comfort as we are dealing with a dynamic running gear that can soften (without an anti-roll bar it can be super soft) or harden independently (each wheel) to control the running gear. the car is the best in the corners.
E-Active Body Control?
This new version, which we have little information about yet, will this time be hydropneumatic, not just pneumatic, so it looks a lot like Citroën's Hydractive. In addition, everything is electrically controlled thanks to the use of a much larger battery that develops 48 volts (this device is associated with easy hybridization and therefore can also be used for many other things, in particular to control the hydropneumatic system).
Energy recovery?
How will the system change if the letter E is in front of the nomenclature? You can imagine that there is an electrical aspect here, and the letter E is usually grafted into technologies that use electrons.
And this is also the case here, as as a novelty, shock absorbers can now recover kinetic energy associated with chassis deflections.
After energy is recovered during braking and deceleration, energy is returned through the dampers. So would it be profitable to travel on chaotic roads?
In short, this kind of device is all the more useful on Mercedes, whose numerous equipment consumes a lot of power (more than regular public cars. S can really consume as much as a small house, even if I pull. Maybe a little too much line ).
Jumping car?
So here we can say that Mercedes engineers have a fantasy. Because in a world where almost everything has already been invented (I'm limited to the automotive market here), it becomes difficult to innovate ...
There, the people in charge of the brand with the star weren't cold in their eyes, as they came up with the idea of making the car jump to get out of the sand when we got stuck.
And if it may sound far-fetched, in the end it is not stupid at all and does seem to actually work, in any case it can be very useful anyway (even if no one puts their Mercedes on hostile soil, except for the Qataris who love to see. what's in their stomach and dealing with the time they have to kill for some).
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