At the CTI Symposium USA in May 2024, Aditya Dattawadkar, Schaeffler, presented recent advances in hybrid architectures in his talk “Hybrids are Making a Comeback”. In our interview, we followed up by asking: What will tomorrow’s hybrid drives look like? Interest in hybrids has been growing again recently in the US, as well as in…
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Ping Yu, CEO, Chief Engineer, Founder, Jing-Jin Electric Dr. Yang Cao, Transmission Senior Supervisor, Jing-Jin Electric JJE’s latest innovation, a 2-speed electric beam axle that was unveiled at the 2023 CTI Berlin symposium, has recently completed vehicle testing. The tests were conducted on two trucks at the JJE China test center track and at the…
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Markus Lock, Head of R&D and Engineering Feintool System Parts Sachsenheim GmbH, Germany The future of e-mobility lies in more efficient and smaller motors. Rotors and stators — the heart of a motor — play the central role in any motor design. Feintool glulock® MD (Multiple Dots) technology removes longstanding limitations on rotor and stator…
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How is the electrification of light vehicles and trucks progressing? As the US CTI Symposium Novi 2024 showed, hybrid drives may be involved for longer than developers expected. Meanwhile, OEMs and suppliers are working tirelessly to make all kinds of electrified drives more efficient – and more sustainable.
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John Jennings, Director of Innovation and eMobility, Amsted Automotive The demands on Electric Vehicles (EV) powertrain systems continue to escalate to better meet customer needs – specially extended driving range and better overall driving dynamics – and Amsted Automotive is developing solutions to meet those needs. The latest evolution for next-generation EV drivetrain systems are…
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How do you make e-mobility more affordable? At the CTI Symposium Berlin in December 2023, we caught up with Thorsten Jablonski, Head of Development & Product Management Volkswagen Group Components. As he sees it, there are several levers: for example battery technology, electric drives, and leaner processes in development and production. On the product side,…
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ElringKlinger MetaloBond™ is a lamination stack technology using a full face glue system with high sealing capability to support direct rotor and stator cooling for increased e-motor performance. With increasing rotation speed and less installation space in advanced electric engine concepts, heat becomes more and more an issue.
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A smart way to meet the service fill requirements of multiple OEM specifications. OEMs in North America are increasingly fitting stepped automatic transmissions with eight or more speeds into their light-duty vehicles as they look for fuel economy improvements. However, the wide variety of different types of transmissions in the light-duty parc means the number…
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Progress never stops. With electric drive technology evolving rapidly, developers can now meet customer requirements even more precisely and comprehensively, while higher efficiency also increases the performance and range of battery-electric drives. So what’s next? One thing’s for certain: With customers seeking more independence and flexibility, plug-in hybrid drives are staging a comeback.
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Marco Silvestri, Chief Engineer, Dana Incorporated Across all our actions, we never lose sight of a guiding vision toward a zeroemissions future. This has powered our first-mover advantage in electrification. At Dana, we strategically invest in technical competence − designing, engineering, and manufacturing the components of a complete e-Propulsion system in-house. These innovations include efficient…
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