Get Started with Powertrain Blockset

Model and simulate automotive powertrain systems

Powertrain Blockset™ provides fully assembled reference application models of automotive powertrains, including gasoline, diesel, hybrid, and electric systems. It includes a component library for simulating engine subsystems, transmission assemblies, traction motors, battery packs, and controller models. Powertrain Blockset also includes a dynamometer model for virtual testing. MDF file support provides a standards-based interface to calibration tools for data import.

Powertrain Blockset provides a standard model architecture that can be reused throughout the development process. You can use it for design tradeoff analysis and component sizing, control parameter optimization, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. You can customize models by parameterizing components in a reference application with your own data or by replacing a subsystem with your own model.

Installation and Configuration

Required and Recommended Products

Tutorials

Getting Started with Powertrain Blockset

Run the conventional vehicle reference application and examine the final drive gear ratio impact on fuel economy and tailpipe emissions.
Conventional Vehicle Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel Economy and Emissions

Calculate the city and highway fuel economy for a conventional vehicle with a 1.5–L spark-ignition (SI) engine.
Conventional Vehicle Powertrain Efficiency

Examine the impact of the conventional vehicle transmission efficiency on the powertrain efficiency.
Get Started with the Virtual Vehicle Composer

Use the Virtual Vehicle Composer app to configure, build, and analyze a virtual vehicle.

Reference Application Projects and Templates

Internal Combustion Engine Reference Application Projects

Use these reference applications as a starting point for your own internal combustion engine vehicle models.
Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Reference Application Projects

Start building your own hybrid and electric vehicle models with reference application projects.
CI Engine Project Template

Create compression-ignition (CI) engine variants to use with internal combustion engine reference applications.
SI Engine Project Template

Create spark-ignition (SI) engine variants to use with internal combustion engine reference applications.

Videos

Powertrain Blockset Overview
Learn about Powertrain Blockset capabilities, including modeling powertrain systems and performing system design tradeoff studies.