At the CES 2022, ZF announced that it has developed smart technologies with advanced core intelligence that bring safe, automated and electrified vehicles to new levels, offering critical improvements that benefit society and the environment.
The journey of its progress toward Next-Generation Mobility proves how the company believes it is no longer a distant vision but a tangible goal within its grasp.
Recent customer contracts and advancements in ZF’s capabilities are validating this strategy. For example, ZF’s previously announced suite of automated driving technologies, including coASSIST, have already launched with Dongfeng in China; coDRIVE, where we are seeing high customer interest for the next advancement in L2+ systems; and coPILOT, a system scalable up to Level 4, which will be launched in a partnership with Vietnam’s fast-growing electric vehicle maker VinFast.
Martin Fischer, ZF Board member and lead executive for the Americas region, said, “Our vehicle manufacturer customers are seeking advanced technology as well as the intelligence and functions that add value for consumers. We have been successful in steadily expanding our ADAS and AD business through sensor and high-performance computing contracts that include providing the fusion of these sensor technologies, the systems expertise to deliver advanced functions and the computing power needed with our ProAI supercomputer.”
As 2022 dawns, the newly consolidated Commercial Vehicle Solutions team now fully combines the strengths of ZF and the former WABCO into a leading global supplier providing the necessary technologies to enable advanced safety and automated driving functions as well as advanced powertrain systems to a market with a strong business case for benefitting from these capabilities.
The technology company goes beyond these more traditional mobility modes to provide advanced automation for agricultural equipment, mining, off-road equipment and automated fork-lifts, and helping the environment through ultra-efficient wind turbine transmissions.
Software Solutions
The global company continues its transformation as software and digitally based enterprise across its business processes. By leveraging Microsoft’s comprehensive set of cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and data technologies, ZF is becoming a cloud-native mobility services provider, delivering clean, safe, convenient, and affordable mobility solutions to its customers.
One example of this is the greater scalability and modularity ZF brings to e-drive inverter technology through its highly intelligent software and semiconductor expertise. This is a crucial step to increase the efficiency, range and affordability of e-motors for the electrified future, and the company is utilising its considerable expertise to bring these advancements to market in shortened development cycles.
Wolf-Henning Scheider, CEO, ZF, said, “We cannot wait to tackle the major issues that our world faces as they are critical to our survival and the quality of life that we all deserve to enjoy. To enhance the lives of future generations, we must all work together, from governments to industry, to members of society all focused on the unified goal to deliver on the promises of tomorrow.”