Gates will assemble your drive components—including belts, tensioners, idlers, pulleys and brackets—into a single module. In delivering a module we help you:
- Reduce overall assembly cost
- Eliminate production line infrastructure
- Condense the number of items in stock
- Enhance warranty
- Improve function with quality alignment
- Cut weight and/or package size
- Reduce complexity
Following are three examples of Gates System Solutions in the automotive and trucking OE markets:
E3Gates E3 Drive System is a Two-Speed Accessory Belt Drive which optimizes engine accessories for significantly improved vehicle performance. This technology:
- Allows accessories to operate at reduced speeds at off-idle conditions.
- Reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions up to 5 percent in the city and up to 7 percent on the highway.
- Vehicle accessories operate more efficiently, and with greater reliability and durability.
- Vehicle acceleration is improved because less torque is required to drive the accessories at lower speed.
- Reduces engine at idle to further reduce fuel consumption and emissions.
Gates EMD system allows starter-generator systems to use an advanced belt drive for almost completely silent vehicle start-up. EMD starter-generator belt drive systems allow the engine to stop when the vehicle is stationary, and then restarts the engine almost instantaneously. The EMD system spins the engine to a very high cranking speed, which gives a rapid, silent and fuel efficient start.
Both emissions and fuel consumption are reduced with the EMD stop/start operating strategy. Independent studies have shown fuel savings of 6 to 10%, depending on the application, and even more than 20% savings in urban traffic.
The EMD system offers the potential to recover braking energy and to use stored electricity to boost acceleration. The system can schedule the generation of electric energy to times when it is cheap to produce, as when the vehicle decelerates, no fuel is being injected, and the engine is providing the braking.
CabRunner Integrated Power System
The CabRunner Integrated Power System reduces fuel use and emissions by eliminating the need for semi-truck drivers to idle their engine while sleeping during a long-haul trip in order to power cab accessories such as air conditioning, heat and lights.
