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SKF Rotor Positioning Bearing for Stop-Start

systems improves fuel economy and reduces CO2
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2012 May 08, 10:06 CEST

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SKF announced that the SKF Rotor Positioning

Bearing has qualified into the SKF BeyondZero
Portfolio because it is an integral component of
Stop-Start systems for micro-hybrid vehicles. In
dense urban traffic, Stop-Start can reduce fuel
consumption and C O2 emissions up to 15%. Based
on an annual mileage of 14,500km, this solution
saves 75kg C O2 per vehicle per year.

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The automotive industry is continually looking for

solutions to reduce C O2 output and improve vehicle
Rotor Positioning
fuel efficiency, says Franco Ferro, Director SKF
Bearing
Automotive, Powertrain & Electrical and Two
Wheelers. In partnership with Valeo, SKF
developed the SKF Rotor Positioning Bearing, which helps make Stop-Start
possible.

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Stop-Start turns off a vehicles engine when the vehicle stops at a red light or
slows down in congested traffic situations, then restarts the engine quickly and
silently when power is needed.
The SKF Rotor Positioning Bearing consists of a high performance magnetic ring
clamped to a high-speed, high-temperature bearing. Together they produce a
powerful, accurate, repeatable and durable magnetic field. The strong magnetic
impulses produced by the SKF Rotor Positioning Bearing provide the starteralternator control system with the rotors exact angular position, and enable the
system to stop and start the engine quickly and quietly.

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If all the cars in a city the size of Berlin were equipped with this technology,
127000 tonnes of C O2 emissions* would be avoided each year.
*According to Eurostat, between 2007 2009 there were 1,747,790 cars in
Berlin. This number assumes that they all were equipped with Peugeot or
Citroen eHDi motors.
Gothenburg, 08 May 2012
Aktiebolaget SKF
(publ)

For further information, please contact:

PRESS: Nia Kihlstrm, Press Manager,
tel: +46 31-337 28 97, mobile: +46 706 67 28 97, e-mail:
nia.kihlstrom@skf.com
TEC HNIC AL PRESS: C olin Roberts, SKF Group C ommunication, tel +31 30
6075608, mobile: +31 653 944 111, e-mail: colin.roberts@skf.com

SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication

systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and
reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in
more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide.
Annual sales in 2011 were SEK 66,216 million and the number of employees
was 46,039. www.skf.com

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