Your car needs maintenance at regular intervals. Fluids require topping off or replacement. Components wear out, and mechanics need to inspect them to ensure your car is still in good driving condition.
Keeping to your manufacturer’s recommended maintenance schedule can save you money. Tires, for instance, only last as long as they’re supposed to when rotated regularly to ensure they wear evenly. And let’s hope you never learn what happens if you skip too many oil changes.
But that maintenance schedule is, at best, an automaker’s estimate of when most drivers need their vehicles checked. If two drivers own identical cars, but one drives the first 10,000 miles mostly on smooth, flat highways, and the other does it on bumpy, poorly-maintained mountain roads, their cars will not be in the same condition.
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Manufacturers have to publish a maintenance schedule that protects them both. But the calendar printed in the owner’s manual is not ideal for either.
Porsche may have a solution to that problem.
Porsche Digital Twin
The German automaker has launched a new program testing what it calls a “digital twin.”
Cars today are full of sensors that help onboard computers adjust for road conditions, detect potential problems, and more. Porsche explains, “The digital twin of a vehicle comprises not only the operating data it collects but also any related data, such as information collected during planned maintenance work and unexpected repairs.”
The system can use data Porsche collects about all models of a car in the field, compare it with data about one specific car, and “identify a customer’s driving style. The algorithm can then recommend not only the optimal time for service work on the vehicle but also the required scope of that work.”
Drivers who encounter a lot of stop-and-go urban traffic, for instance, might need their brake pads checked more often than drivers whose commute is mostly highway miles.
It’s Experimental and Voluntary
“Data privacy during the testing phase and after the series production launch is the top priority,” the company says. The data Porsche stores are anonymous, and customers must choose to participate.
The digital twin is a long way from replacing the maintenance schedule. At the moment, Porsche has begun experimenting only with its Taycan electric vehicle. About half of Taycan owners have opted into an experiment that tracks the EV’s air suspension system’s health.
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“Other functionality will be added in the future, such as functions that allow wear on specific components to be calculated without the need for physical gauges to be used,” Porsche says.
But Porsche imagines many future uses for the digital twin. “Manufacturers could consider offering an extended approved warranty based on seamless documentation of component status updates,” the company says, “and even a certificate with a price recommendation for selling on the vehicle.”
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