At the 2024 USA CTI Symposium in Novi, the ‘Female Session’ – organized by CTI and the AWA foundation – took place for the first time. We spoke to Sarah Zitouni, Director of Hybrid Powertrain Strategy at Aurobay, who shared her experience as a speaker in the session. Ms Zitouni, what were the goals of…
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The transition to sustainable mobility is all about efficiency. Key demands include frugal energy consumption for electric drive systems, and faster development processes. From a vast range of possible architectures and technical alternatives, designers must develop highly individual concepts – then fit them into ultra-slim drive units. CTI SYMPOSIUM GERMANY 2024: An inspiring ideas pool,…
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Professor Maximilian Fichtner, Executive Director & Head of Solid State Chemistry, Helmholtz Institute Ulm Batteries are still the biggest cost factor in battery-electric vehicles. How can we reduce costs significantly to make EVs more affordable? How do we make batteries safer, and what new materials are emerging? We asked Prof Maximilian Fichtner from the Helmholtz…
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The automotive world is changing, and the CTI Symposium is helping to drive the transformation. Where will the boundaries of powertrains lie in future? While powertrains will still be centre stage of the Symposium, the scope will expand. Artificial intelligence will play a growing role, and so will the provision of energy sources. The 22nd…
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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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At the CTI Symposium Berlin in December 2023, Dr Jörg Gindele, Magna Powertrain, spoke on progress in new electric drives. We interviewed him about new developments in hardware and software, functional integration on a higher software level – and the new possibilities that the ‚Digital Twin‘ opens up.
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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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