Honda is being supplied with the axle drive for its new CR-V e:FCEV by Vitesco Technologies. This marks the first time that a drive system from Vitesco has been integrated into a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. In the CR-V e:FCEV, Honda combines a fuel cell system with a 17.7 kWh battery as energy storage to […]
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The two German companies Zeulenroda Presstechnik and DREHER Automation are working together on the development of turnkey forming systems for punch stacking to produce rotor and stator laminations for electric motors for traction applications. The aim is to utilize Zeulenroda’s expertise in the field of special forming presses and DREHER’s press automation to provide the
Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE), a leading supplier of electron beam and laser welding systems, and automotive manufacturer Ford have been awarded a £430,000 research grant from national public funding body UK Research and Innovation. The grant is part of the £5.8 million awarded to UK Research and Innovation under the Innovate UK funding programme. The
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According to a report by automotive magazine “CarNewsChina”, Chinese electric car manufacturer NIO has started series production of its newly developed 900-volt drive system. The ET9 vehicle model, which was presented to the public for the first time in December 2023, is set to be the first to be launched on the market with the
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US-based BorgWarner Group plans to start manufacturing rotors and stators for electric motors for the Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Xpeng in the third quarter of 2024. The new components will initially be used in the X9 MPV models Xpeng presented at the last Guangzhou Auto Show as well as in Xpeng’s next B-segment sedan, which
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BMW has completed construction work it began in September 2022 to build production halls for electric drives in Steyr, Austria. Next, almost 300 units with a total value of more than 500 million euros are to be built on an area of 60,000 square meters. Pre-series production for the all-electric “New Class” will begin in
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Automotive technology supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG has exceeded the threshold of three million electric motors produced. The machines are motors for purely battery-electric passenger cars and plug-in hybrids as well as for electric commercial vehicles. Half of all motors produced to date have been manufactured in the period from July 2022 to the end of
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Electric motor manufacturer Nidec India has opened the second building of its existing factory in the small town of Neemrana in the state of Rajasthan. While machines for motor vehicles, household appliances, trade and industry are produced in the first building complex, production of drive motors for electric two-wheelers with an output of up to
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BorgWarner is the first supplier to deliver a torque vectoring system with integrated axle deactivation (eTVD) for electric vehicles. It is being used for the first time in the Polestar 3 SUV and another major European OEM. The eTVD is part of the Electric Torque Management System (eTMS) and enables intelligent distribution of torque to
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The new “Scale-up E-Drive” platform will support companies in the fundamental transition to electric mobility until 2025. With funding of 4.8 million euros, the so-called transformation hub is part of a program by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action to transform the automotive industry. The aim of the hub is to strengthen
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Global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has signed a five-year contract with “REEtec AS” from Norway for the supply of rare-earth materials. The aim of the collaboration is to make electric motors for hybrid modules, hybrid transmissions and all-electric axle drives even more sustainable. Strong permanent magnets made from rare-earth materials such as neodymium are
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Renault and its suppliers Valeo and Valeo Siemens eAutomotive have signed a letter of intent for a strategic collaboration in the development of a new generation of electric motors for electric vehicles. The machines are to be designed, developed and manufactured in France from 2027. The focus will be on sustainability by eliminating the use
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Researchers at TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany have developed a technology which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to disassemble electric motors for recycling and recognize reusable components. The process aims to recover strategic raw materials contained in electric motors, such as the rare-earth metal neodymium. Current recycling methods are not yet able to extract these raw
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British technology company “GKN Automotive” is participating in a European research project to develop cost-effective and efficient permanent-magnet electric motors. The machines will have high power density and are intended for next-generation electric vehicles. The aim of the project is to implement a new design concept with innovative construction and material solutions for electric motors.
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies (IWKS) in Germany have developed a new recycling method for spent magnets that are used in electric motors. Until now, such magnets were produced under expensive and environmentally harmful conditions and were rarely recycled. The new process makes it possible to produce magnets
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) and partners have demonstrated in a study how electric bike motors can be remanufactured profitably. Successful remanufacturing has resulted in machines that have almost the same properties as newly produced motors. In the “AddRE-Mo” project, the team showed that the economic savings potential of
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Together with several industrial partners such as Wafios and Trumpf, the Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) of RWTH Aachen University is currently investigating the potential of aluminum as an alternative, cost-effective conductor material for electric motor components. Following typical mechanisms in the automotive industry, the cost pressure on electric motors is likely
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Together with mechanical engineering company Wafios, the Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) of RWTH Aachen University is currently investigating the processing of waveguide wire in automated bending. The focus is on the feasibility of bending waveguide wire into characteristic hairpins for electric motors. Currently, the development of efficient cooling concepts for electric
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Nissan has presented a modularization approach for new electric drives under the name “X-in-1”. The approach is to be implemented in two powertrains, for purely electric cars as 3-in-1 and for the car manufacturer’s serial hybrids as 5-in-1. The 3-in-1 drive consists of an electric motor, an inverter and a reduction gearbox, while the 5-in-1
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Thanks to numerous innovations at component and system level, ZF Friedrichshafen from Germany has achieved a higher power density and energy efficiency with the new generation of electric drives. The focus is on a compact drive design and resource-saving use of materials. The guiding principle behind the so-called “discrete package technology” is a high degree
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