Horse Powertrain will reveal its Horse C15 vary extender system at IAA Mobility 2025 in Munich, Germany, providing automakers a compact resolution to transform BEVs into range-extended fashions with minimal platform modifications.
The Horse C15 combines a 1.5-liter, four-cylinder engine with an built-in generator, inverter, and cooling bundle in a unit measuring 500 x 550 x 275mm in its naturally aspirated configuration. The system, roughly the scale of a briefcase, might be put in horizontally or vertically in both the entrance compartment or rear of present EV platforms.
The expertise permits unique gear producers to remodel BEV platforms into range-extended EVs, increasing their product choices to fulfill totally different market calls for. Vary-extended automobiles use the combustion engine to take care of battery cost ranges moderately than immediately powering the wheels, with the electrical motor offering all traction.
“Vary prolonged EVs are the fastest-growing powertrain class in lots of world markets,” stated Matias Giannini, CEO of Horse Powertrain. “The Horse C15 vary extender resolution provides OEMs a simple and cost-effective strategy to faucet this chance, and adapt their native BEV platforms into REEVs. We consider demand for REEVs will proceed to develop. Horse C15 will play a essential function on this transition, as one of many market’s best and versatile REEV options so far.”
The system is designed to adjust to Euro 7 emissions requirements, together with China 7 and SULEV20 necessities. For B- and C-segment automobiles, the naturally aspirated model offers as much as 70kW of engine energy. A turbocharged variant for D-segment automobiles and lightweight business automobiles delivers as much as 120kW. Each configurations can function on gasoline and artificial fuels.
By incorporating the vary extender, producers can scale back battery pack sizes of their electrical automobiles, doubtlessly reducing prices and weight whereas sustaining driving vary. The strategy additionally reduces strain on essential mineral provide chains utilized in battery manufacturing.
The combustion engine in range-extended automobiles operates inside its best revolution vary, which the corporate says minimizes gas consumption and emissions whereas lowering noise, vibration, and harshness in comparison with conventional hybrid methods. In contrast to plug-in hybrid or standard hybrid automobiles, the engine by no means immediately drives the wheels.
Vary-extended automobiles keep the driving traits of battery electrical automobiles, together with easy acceleration and responsiveness, whereas retaining the flexibility to cost from public charging stations or home energy provides. When mixed with low-carbon fuels, the corporate states the lifecycle environmental influence approaches that of pure battery electrical automobiles.
The Horse C15 is a part of Horse Powertrain’s X-Vary household of options designed to combine combustion and hybrid expertise into electrical automobile platforms. Horse Powertrain will show the vary extender expertise at IAA Mobility 2025 at Corridor A2, Sales space B40.
