Evaluation and Improvement of Shifting Quality of the Vehicle Gearbox from the Perspective of Sustainable Development in China’s Vehicle Industry

Abstract

Energy saving and environmental protection are still two important themes in the vehicle industry. The recent rapid transition in energy markets and the technological advances in the demand-side interventions have renewed attention on the driving behavior of the vehicle consumers. The inappropriate gearshift performance of vehicle gearbox would not only increase the fuel consumption, but also interfere with the driver’s driving emotional state, so that the driver is easy to feel uncomfortable and boring, thus further affecting the fuel consumption. Hence, based on the necessity of improving the gearshift performance of vehicle gearbox, this study adopts GSA test technology to study the problems existing in the shifting quality of the commercial vehicle, so as to achieve high shifting efficiency and low fuel consumption. It could establish the subjective and objective evaluation criteria of the gearshift performance of commercial vehicles determined by the test, which provides a reliable theoretical basis for the optimal design of products and the evaluation of gearshift performance. Then, the technicians could formulate the corresponding shift manipulating schemes and optimal matching steps accordingly, to reach the required technical indexes of power, stability and transmission of the whole vehicle system, thus providing a direction for reducing fuel consumption and emissions, and improving the gearshift performance and quality of the whole vehicle.