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Innovative and fit for the future. Millions of people around the entire world are driving with car driveline technology from ZF – today and in the future. The products are designed for efficiency and are simultaneously setting standards when it comes to comfort and driving dynamics. Vehicles equipped with ZF technology successfully walk the challenging line between the need to shape individual mobility while also doing everything possible to preserve the environment and resources. It is impossible to imagine automobiles of the future without ZF driveline technology because, with its modern and reliable components, ZF is also paving the way for many trends, such as electrification of the driveline. This culture of innovation as well as the ability to produce components of the highest quality has made ZF a valuable partner in the international automotive industry.
01Electric Mobility 04 Electric Mobility – A Megatrend with Potential
02Drive Systems 06 Diversity in Efficiency: Electrification of the Driveline 08 New Features thanks to E-Mobility
03Products 09 48V Hybrid System 10 Electric Motor 11 Hybrid Module 12 Hybrid Transmission 13 Power Unit 14 Electric Vehicle Drive 15 Modular Electric Rear Axle Concept
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Automotive manufacturers appreciate ZF’s expertise in offering complete hybrid modules in which the electric motor, a separating clutch, and torsional dampers which balance out rotational irregularities of the combustion engine are integrated in very limited space. ZF uses these hybrid modules in its own systems, for instance in the plug-in hybrid transmission based on the 8-speed automatic transmission. For pure electric vehicles ZF supplies weight-saving electric axle drives which take up little installation space. These include the electric motor, a two-stage spur gear drive, as well as the power electronics system in one package. Its high speed design makes the system particularly efficient. Customers who buy electric drive systems from ZF benefit from the Group’s overall exper-tise. After all, ZF has valuable system know-how about the entire driveline, including its functional and structural integration into the automobile. The Group’s expertise in the area of mechanics derived from its well-established driveline technology product portfolio is equally valuable to ZF customers. It includes topics as complex as the damping of torsional engine vibrations or efficient torque transmission.
Already more than 100 years ago, engineers experimen-ted with electric drives for the early automobiles. The fact that, in the end, a drive concept based on liquid fuel gained from fossil fuels established itself and is still in use today could soon prove to be only a phase in automotive history. The past decades have shown us the limits of fossil fuels: Global oil reserves will not be available indefinitely, emissions caused by traffic dama-ge the climate and the environment. In this context, the demand for individual mobility which is still increasing fast, particularly in emerging industrialized nations or “emerging markets”, can hardly be fulfilled based on combustion engine drive concepts. Legislators are also starting to play an increasingly bigger role in this matter: Globally, the automotive industry has to respect ever stricter fleet consumption and emission limits. Therefore, alternative drive concepts for passenger cars are now and will be in high demand in the future – and for many of them, electricity as a power source plays an important role: Hybrid electric vehicles combine the advantages of electric and combustion-engine drives. Pure electric vehicles are already in use without causing any local emissions – and as soon as their batteries
are charged with green electricity their overall carbon footprint will improve considerably. Fuel cell vehicles are also purely electrically driven. In this case, advantages in terms of range result from the required energy generated on the road based on hydrogen or methanol stored in tanks. ZF: Solutions from a single source In the context of this electrification megatrend, automo-tive manufacturers can rely on the technology company ZF. After all, ZF has been developing electric drives for vehicles for more than 25 years. In 2008, the company inaugurated the first industrial production facility for electric motors for hybrid electric vehicles in Europe. Today electric drive components from ZF offer solutions for almost any passenger car manufacturer concept, starting with the development and production of electric motors with different power output figures for use in pa-rallel hybrid concepts. The product portfolio ranges from integrated 48V solutions with 15 kW which can be used in mild hybrid systems and already offer a large number of advantages of electric drives to powerful electric mo-tors with up to 160 kW for plug-in hybrid transmissions.
Electric Mobility – A Megatrend with potential
Electric drives are an important element required to make sustainable mobility concepts possible. In this context, ZF provides innovative systems and components.
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More cost-effectiveness and less or no emissions: This is the objective when it comes to implementing almost all electrified passenger car drives. This goal can be achie-ved in different ways. In hybrid electric vehicles or HEV, the conventional combustion engine is supported by at least one electric motor. Its respective capacity can be used for an initial classification: A micro hybrid can, for example, switch off the combustion engine in a stationary vehicle (start/stop) as well as recuperate braking energy to a limited extent but does not actively drive the vehicle. The latter is possible starting with the mild hybrid in which an electric motor for instance complements the gasoline or diesel engine via the boost mode; it can, however, not drive the car independently. This is possible in the full hybrid which, as a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), can also be charged using any power outlet. It already tackles many everyday challenges purely electrically: A PHEV equipped with the ZF plug-in hybrid transmission even reaches speeds of up to 120 km/h and a range of up to 50 kilometers without generating any local emissions. As an alternative, HEVs can also be categorized based on the interplay between the conventional combustion engine and the electric motor: A hybrid in which both can influence the same driveline simultaneously and directly, as is the case for the mild hybrid or PHEV, is a parallel hybrid. And this is exactly the type of hybrid ZF focuses on for passenger cars. By contrast, the electric motors in serial hybrid drives are integrated according to
a different model: In most cases, the combustion engine drives a generator which supplies energy for one or more electric motors for the axle or wheel drive. Finally, in pure electric vehicles or EV, no combustion engine is installed at all. The energy for the electric motor or motors is either supplied by a battery, as is the case for battery electric vehicles or BEV; or a fuel cell on board generates the electric energy by means of a che-mical reaction, as is the case for fuel-cell vehicles (fuel cell (electric) vehicle – FC(E)V). ZF works intensively on electric vehicle innovations, particularly with its complete electric axle drive systems. A more powerful on-board supply system in passenger cars had already been a topic in the automotive industry before hybrid vehicles were introduced: After all, elec-trics and electronics mean more and more consumers in the passenger car, taxing the classical 12V network to the limits of its capacity. An additional 48V on-board supply system is also a less costly step toward hybridiza-tion. A mild hybrid system based on 48 Volts already ma-kes a large number of hybrid functions possible – sailing, boost mode, recuperation, electric starting, crawling, as well as start/stop. Thanks to the low-voltage system, the electronic components can, however, be integrated in the vehicle at low cost. This results in fuel savings of 10 to 15 percent.
Diversity in Efficiency – Electrification of the Driveline
Overview of Electrified Drive Configurations
Overview of Hybrid Categories
HEV – Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Full hybrid, parallel rear-wheel drive
Full hybrid front-transverse drive with electric motor
electric 4-wheel drive
Mild hybrid, parallel rear-wheel drive
48V or high voltage
Mild hybrid, parallel front-transverse drive 48V or high voltage
Full hybrid, parallel front-transverse drive
Serial hybrid or range extender
Battery electric vehicle
Fuel-cell (electric) vehicle
Hybrid categories Micro Mild 48V Full (HEV) Plug-in (PHEV)
Main functions Start/stop (Boost mode)
(Recuperation)
Start/stop Boost mode
Recuperation (Electric maneuvering)
Start/stop Boost mode
Recuperation Limited electric driving
Sailing
Start/stop Boost mode
Recuperation Electric driving
Sailing
Type performance level 3-10 kW 15-25 kW 40-75 kW 75-160 kW
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Hybrid or pure electric drives offer a number of functions which make driving more efficient.
Start/stop Switching off the combustion engine whenever it is not required reduces consumption. This is above all the case when the vehicle is at a standstill. Today start/stop systems are therefore even integrated in vehicles without hybrid drive. Recuperation When the vehicle decelerates, the electric motor is used as a generator to convert the braking energy into electric energy and to charge the battery. Boost mode When full power is required in the hybrid vehicle, the electric motor supports the combustion engine. Advan-tage: For this reason, the latter can already be designed to be smaller and more fuel-efficient in hybrid vehicles – keyword: downsizing. Electric driving As soon as electric motors drive the passenger car independently, no more emissions are caused locally while driving – and hardly any noise is generated. These are huge advantages, not least in inner city areas where strict access restrictions for vehicles with conventional drives are becoming more and more common. Sailing In driving situations requiring little power input, such as when driving at constant speed or slightly downhill, the combustion engine is switched off and the electric motor takes over vehicle propulsion if required.
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48V Hybrid System
Consisting of 48V Electric motor Highly integrated 48V inverter incl. rotor position sensor Housing Dog clutch (optional) Electro-magnetic release system (optional)
Specification Permanent-field synchronous machine (PSM) Unit Drive configuration
Type PI286F10U1L50
Outer diameter 286 mm
Active length 50 mm
Voltage range 36 – 52 Vdc
Max. power mot. (10s) 20 kW
Max. power gen. (10s) 24 kW
Max. power mot. cont. 14 kW
Max. power gen. cont. 17 kW
Max. torque cold @ 0°C @ 900A 205 Nm
Max. torque warm @ 120°C @ 800A 180 Nm
Interface to optional torsional vibration damper
Power unit incl. rotor position sensor
Interface to transmission
Housing
Electric motor
Mild hybrid, parallel front-transverse drive 48V or high voltage
Mild hybrid, parallel rear-wheel drive
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Specification Permanent-field synchronous machine (PSM) Unit Drive configuration
Type AL280-32
Outer diameter 280 mm
Active length 32 mm
Axial length module approx. 150 mm
Voltage range 220 – 420 Vdc
Max. power 55 kW
Max. torque 250 Nm
Max. speed 7,000 rpm
Electric Motor
Interface to transmission
Interface to combustion engine
Torsional vibration damper
Housing
Electric motor
Rotor position sensor
Consisting of Electric motor Torsional vibration damper Rotor position sensor Housing
Mild hybrid, parallel front-transverse drive 48V or high voltage
Full hybrid, parallel front-transverse drive
Hybrid Module
Interface to transmission
Interface to combustion engine
Housing
Electric motor
Separating clutchactuation
Separating clutch
Consisting of Electric motor Torsional vibration damper Separating clutch Separating clutch actuation Housing
Specification Permanent-field synchronous machine (PSM) Unit Drive configuration
Type AL280-80
Outer diameter 280 mm
Active length 80 mm
Axial length module approx. 240 mm
Voltage range 220 – 420 Vdc
Max. power 90 kW
Max. torque 400 Nm
Max. speed 7,000 rpm
Max. torque separarting clutch 800 Nm
Full hybrid, parallel front-transverse drive
Full hybrid, parallel rear-wheel drive
Torsional vibration damper
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Consisting of Electric motor Torsional vibration damper Separating clutch Housing
Specification Permanent-field synchronous machine (PSM) Unit Drive configuration
Type IL269-70
Outer diameter 269 mm
Active length 70 mm
Axial length module approx. 150 mm
Voltage range 220 – 420 Vdc
Max. power 90 kW
Max. torque 250 Nm
Max. speed 7,000 rpmFull hybrid, parallel
rear-wheel drive
Electric motor
Separating clutch
Housing
Torsional vibration damper
Interface to combustion engine
Hybrid TransmissionProduct details electric drives
Power Unit
Consisting of Inverter
Cooling water connection
Signal connector
Cooling water connection
Housing
High voltage battery connector
Specification Power unit Unit Drive configuration
Type LE Gen4
Volume 5 l
Max. voltage 450 Vdc
Max. current 560 Arms
Continuous current 300 Arms
Safety level D ASIL
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P2 configuration, parallel front-
transverse drive including separation
clutch C0 for Full-Hybrids and Plug-In Hybrids
Fuel-cell (electric) vehicle
Electric Vehicle Drive
Specification Asynchronous machine (ASM) Unit Drive configuration
Type eVD2
Dimensions incl. housing 450 x 510 x 380 mm
Active length 150 mm
Axial length module approx. 450 mm
Voltage range 220 – 420 Vdc
Max. power 150 kW
Max. torque at axle 3,500 Nm
Max. speed 13,000 rpmP1 configuration,
parallel front- transverse drive
Housing Two-stage spur gear drive
Power unit
Electric motor
Parking lock
Differential
Consisting ofElectric motor Two-stage spur gear drive Power unit Parking lock Differential Housing
Drive configuration
Full hybrid front-transverse drive with electric motor
electric 4-wheel drive
Battery electric vehicle Fuel-cell (electric)
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An electric drive system integrated into the axle According to the customers, supplying driveline and chassis technology from a single source has always been ZF‘s strength. This advantage also remains in times of e-mobility. For instance, ZF offers the electric drive inte-grated into a complete axle system. For ZF customers, this considerably reduces development costs because ZF handles the coordination of internal interfaces. ZF develops, fine-tunes, and tests the axle including the electric drive, in accordance with the requirement specification. In the process, different axle types can be used depending on the application. For this purpose, ZF provides a modular rear axle concept which is based on essential customer requirements. Since ZF can imple-ment its experience with passenger car axle systems in the process, the electric drive is integrated seamlessly and according to the requirements.
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