A platform to support electrification success worldwide

Bringing electrification to many new vehicle brands, segments, and models is a giant task for the automotive industry. “Greatest possible scalability of electric drives plus highest efficiency is the market demand. The EMR4 platform perfectly fits this bill”, said Gunter Mühlberg, head of Product Management Axle Drives at Vitesco Technologies. It is already the fourth generation of the highly integrated “Electronics Motor Reducer” by Vitesco Technologies. Although, EMR3 already set ambitious benchmarks in weight, compactness, and power density, EMR4 surpasses the current third generation. It delivers up to 5 percent increased efficiency of the whole axle drive (compared with the predecessor generation), significantly greater power scaling between 80 kW and 230 kW, and substantial cost reductions. “This is the result of consistent system optimization on detail level within numerous effect chains in the axle drive”, Mühlberg adds.

“China is one of the most dynamic countries for innovations and electrification. That is why we chose to reveal the EMR4 platform here, during the renowned Transmission Symposium China”, said Changsong Yu, head of the Electrification Technology business unit Asia. “The EMR4 will be manufactured in China among other places, based on a local network of supplying partners.” Design for manufacturing will make it possible to produce every variation of the EMR4 platform on one production line. The production at Tianjin, China, will deliver the new drive to both local and international car makers.