Due to the increasing complexity of engines and the limited resources virtual development methods are essential throughout the whole development process. Especially in motorsports, virtual engineering methods can accelerate the development and finally make a difference.

Global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions is one of the major threats to humankind and challenges the automobile industry. Motorsport as a pioneer and a laboratory for automotive technologies has to face this issue and push the development of solutions. Nowadays motorsport is dominated by conventional propulsion systems powered by fossil fuels, predominantly by gasoline.

During the last decades there has been a growing debate in public and in policy about global warming and the influence of mankind on the environment due to increasing emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants resulting in an ongoing climate change and a degrading air quality especially within large cities. The importance of these issues is reflected by 197 nations participating in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and committing themselves to the protection of the environment and the struggle against climate change [1].