Bosch Automotive Handbook

All about automotive engineering in a pocketbook

Robert Bosch GmbH published the first incarnation of the Automotive Handbook in 1932. The original preface to this edition introduced the book as follows: “These ‘Technical Tables’ are an attempt to give users of our products a small, handy collection of the interesting formulas, values, and figures – drawn mainly from automotive technology -that are otherwise scattered across various magazines.” Three years later, the “Technical Tables” were renamed the “Automotive Handbook.”

Over seventy-five years later, the Bosch Automotive Handbook is now an indispensable reference source of precise information on the subject of automotive technology. This brand-new 8th edition is revised and extended throughout.

Contents – central themes

• Basic principles: physics, materials, machine parts, joining and bonding techniques
• Vehicle physics: basic terms of automotive engineering, motor-vehicle dynamics, vehicle acoustics
• Internal-combustion engines: gasoline engine, diesel engine, turbochargers and superchargers, exhaust-gas system
• Emission-control and diagnosis legislation
• Management for spark-ignition engines: manifold injection, gasoline direct injection, alternative gasoline-engine operation
• Management for diesel engines: common rail
• Alternative drives: hybrid drive, fuel cell
• Chassis systems: suspension, wheel suspensions, steering, brake systems
• Active safety: antilock braking system, driving-dynamics control system
• Lighting equipment
• Automotive electrics: vehicle electrical systems, starter batteries, electrical machines, alternators
• Automotive electronics: automotive networking, buses, architecture of electronic systems, sensors
• Driver-assistance systems: parking systems, vehicle navigation, Adaptive Cruise Control, night-vision systems