Testing at SHPG
SHPG offers an array of advanced Real-World winter testing facilities, specifically tailored to meet the development, evaluation and proving of current and future automotive technologies.
Expertly-prepared low friction surfaces offer winter driving conditions for all stages of automotive product development, from initial system and component development to detailed tuning and whole-vehicle evaluation, conformity and validation.
SHPG’s unique counter-seasonal Southern Hemisphere location helps bridge the winter testing gap between Northern winters to reduce development lead times by up to 6 months.
SHPG’s facilities include:
- 15 Snow Flats and 3 dynamic Circles
- 7 large Ice Flats including 1 large Ice Circle
- 12 Ride & Handling roads
- 5 heated asphalt split µ (Hi/Lo) facilities
- Multiple Split µ gradients from 5~20%
- Icing bath / Sorbet pond
- 200m indoor refrigerated ABS Hi/Lo µ facility
- Special snow and ice facilities and surfaces are available on request
Snow Flats
13 Compacted Snow Flats of up to 800m length.
Variable surface preparation: Soft ~ Hard packed snow (50~90 CTi)Snow Flats
Typical usage:
- ABS & Brake system development
- ESC, ESP, VSC & Chassis Handling development
- AWD Chassis and electronic traction control development EPS & Steering systems development
- HV/EV/PHEV Motor control & electrical system development
- High speed snow dust ingress testing / cooling test
- NVH development
- R&H and Chassis development
- HVAC and sub system development
- Engine calibration and Drive Train development
- Icing Durability and Chassis component strength testing
- Tyre Development and certification testing (ASTM, UN/ECE)
Snow & Ice Circles
SNOW CIRCLES
3 compacted snow facilities of up to 280m diameter.
Variable surface preparation: Soft ~ Hard packed snow (50~90 CTi)
Typical usage:
- Constant speed and load testing
- Snow dust ingress testing / engine cooling development
- ABS & Brake system development
- ESP Chassis development including torque vectoring
- AWD Chassis and electronic traction control development
- EPS & Steering systems development
- HV/EV/PHEV Motor control & electrical system development
- Tyre Testing and Development
ICE CIRCLES
2 Ice Circles up to R140m.
Low friction ice surfaces 0.07~0.15 µ
Typical usage:
- Constant speed and load testing
- ABS & Brake system development
- ESP Chassis development including torque vectoring
- AWD Chassis and electronic traction control development
- EPS & Steering systems development
- HV/EV/PHEV Motor control & electrical system development
- Tyre Testing and Development
Ice Flats
7 Ice Flats up to 200m length.
Low friction ice surfaces 0.07~0.15 µ
Typical usage:
- ABS & Brake system development
- ESC, ESP, VSC & Chassis Handling development
- AWD Chassis and electronic traction control development
- HV/EV/PHEV Motor control & electrical system development
- R&H and Chassis development
- Tyre Testing and Development
Split Mµ
5 Heated Split µ Asphalt/Ice/Snow strip 150m length.
High Fiction/Low friction surfaces 1.0~0.1 µ
Typical usage:
- ABS Braking development
- TRC & Drive Train Development
- Drive force distribution & torque vectoring
- High µ testing
- Rolling Torque and cold Friction evaluation
- HV/EV/PHEV Motor control
- Tyre Testing and Development
