Efficient Drivetrains is to establish a hybrid and electric vehicle centre focused on the development of EV and PHEV commercial vehicles for its customers in North America.
The new business unit will use the company’s experience of proof-of-concept and demonstrator vehicles for Tier 1 suppliers, OEMs, up-fitters, and end users of Evs.
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The division will be operated out of the company’s recently leased facility in Dixon, California and will begin new OEM and end-user customer projects by the end of Q1 this year.
The expanded facility will be responsible for integrating the company’s EDI PowerDrive line of EV and PHEV drivetrains, EDI PowerSuite Vehicle Control Software and Telematics, and EDI Power2E 2 Way Charging and Exportable Power solutions into commercial fleet vehicles.
The company’s Silicon Valley Global Headquarters and Innovation Centre will continue to house EDI’s drivetrain and electrification products engineering, research and development, sales, marketing, and administration divisions.
The company has already implemented its PowerDrive and PowerSuite solutions on major OEM platforms globally, including Ford, GM, International, Peterbilt, Freightliner, JAC, Shaanxi, Ankai, Xinkai and others.
“Our expanded services offering and vehicle engineering and manufacturing focus, allows our customers to benefit from the experience EDI has developed while engineering and building hybrid and electric vehicles in the past,” said EDI CEO, Joerg Ferchau.
“It also provides our customers with a smooth path to production as we can support limited volume builds and also transfer knowledge to them as they establish their production lines.”
