Commercial vehicle act as an entry point for ZF’s electrification tech in India
German tier 1 supplier ZF Group is fast-accelerating its transformation towards an electrified future. While the company globally is a leading supplier of solutions to a multitude of vehicle segments, in India the commercial vehicle segment has been its key business.
On June 29, the German company held its Technology Day where it showcased its capabilities in the electric vehicle space with the 800-volt electric vehicle powertrain, a new cooling concept and a new winding technology, its first central thermal management system (TherMaS), and its own powertrain software to provide higher efficiency.
Dr. Holger Klein, CEO of ZF aims to make the company agile and has been redrawing strategies for future-proofing itself. Be it streamlining corporate structure, building up new partnerships and JVs, for instance, KPIT for middleware, partnering Wolfspeed to gain silicone carbide technology (SiC), which it believes will be a key component in the future.
He believes that while there is a significant push towards electrification, IC-vehicles especially commercial vehicles are not going to go away completely anytime soon.
“The IC-vehicle commercial vehicle will still stay for the coming years. Since we begin working on electric powertrain in 2016, there has been lot of interesting development and now it looks like an eternity. Today, we offer e-mobility solutions along all segments,” said Dr. Klein.
It is interesting to note that while it has been traditionally an IC-component supplier since a decade ago, at present the global revenue from IC-components contributes less than 30 percent, while the rest comes from electric.
For a company the size of ZF, streamlining processes and agility will be the key to be able to meet the varied
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