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Originally Posted by clee1982
wonder what's ZF going to do when car switch to electric in big numbers (i.e. no transmission)
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ZF is heavily involved in the development of electric drive trains.
And its a myth that an electric drive train doesnt have a transmission.
They dont have a transmission in the sense that multiple gear ratios are switched in one order or another but there is still a transmission path of power from the motor to the wheels. (usually involving cogs)
There are currently no EV cars commerically available that have electric motors directly attached to the wheels (so that the motor is in the wheel hub).
And ZF also can make an electric motor of course.
EV's might turn out to be a hugely expansion of ZF's assets. The most innovative companies will probably benefit the most of a transition to ev's, and ZF is pretty innovative
For instance they started the trend of high # geargearratio gearboxes where multiple ratio's are used in series to get to one final ratio. That way of designing led other manufacturers to copy ZF.