Mechanical engineer with more than 40 years of experience in the development and testing of light commercial vehicles, vans, and complete vehicles.
Extensive leadership and project experience with particular expertise in chassis, load-bearing structures, durability, reliability, lightweight design, measurement engineering, and complete-vehicle testing.
Today, Hans-Peter Tabarelli supports companies in developing and validating robust, weight-optimized vehicle concepts – from determining real customer loads through design and testing to the transformation of conventional vehicle architectures to battery-electric drives.
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Consulting on safety and reliability concepts, structural strength and stiffness, and the development and validation of weight-optimized vehicle concepts.
Additional areas of focus include load spectra and load-level management, variant and module management, as well as resource efficiency and sustainability in vehicle development.
Overall responsibility for load spectra of Mercedes-Benz Vans as well as definition and approval of customer- and application-specific test requirements for development partners, simulation, and testing.
Responsibility for safety strategies for wheel-guiding components as well as reliability and verification concepts for durability.
Execution and release responsibility for special-event and misuse tests on van chassis, as well as release responsibility for electric power steering (EPS) with regard to durability.
Responsibility for the load methodology used to validate durability and reliability of Mercedes-Benz Vans, including Sprinter, Vito, Citan, and V-Class.
Responsibility for collecting and evaluating anonymized usage data from customer vehicles and for determining real operating loads worldwide resulting from payload, road excitation, and driving style.
Preparation for transferring relevant load spectra from internal-combustion-engine vehicles to the changed load conditions of battery-electric vehicles.
Responsibility for endurance and durability testing on test benches, proving grounds, and in customer-oriented vehicle operation, as well as for verification and release of the durability of Mercedes-Benz Vans.
Further development of the testing strategy based on real customer and usage profiles.
International assignment in Fuzhou, China, to establish and commission a test center for the Mercedes-Benz V-Class. Determination of typical operating conditions, road excitations, and driver influences over several thousand kilometers on public roads and comparison with existing development load spectra.
Leadership of vehicle measurement engineering and load analysis as well as further development of methods for recording and evaluating real vehicle and component loads.
Realignment of durability verification strategies through the use of statistical methods for transparent comparison of applied loads and component strength.
Further development of multi-component measuring wheels for static wheel loads of up to two metric tons, enabling their use in vans and light commercial vehicles.
Leadership of the servo-hydraulic test facility for component testing on commercial vehicles, vans, trucks, and buses.
Further development of servo-hydraulic testing technology with the aim of reproducing real road loads on test benches.
Responsibility for component and resonance test benches and their use in the development and validation of commercial-vehicle components.
Planning and execution of vehicle measurements as well as development and calibration of the required sensors.
Evaluation and analysis of measurement data as a basis for the development and validation of vehicles and components.
Mechanical engineering studies with a focus on manufacturing engineering.
Areas of focus included work and production planning as well as REFA methods.
