The 64,000 square metre facility in San Luis Potosi will house a new manufacturing facility for power electronic components and electric motors with 380 new jobs to be created over the next five years. The facility is planned to come on line incrementally with phase 1 beginning in Q2 2024.

As part of its transformation towards eMobility the company has officially unveiled a new logo, which it says is more representative of its “Charging Forward” strategy.

June saw the start of series production of Mercedes-Benz eO500U electric bus chassis on the modern Bus Chassis Production Line at the Mercedes-Benz do Brasil plant in São Bernardo do Campo (SP).

Plans by BorgWarner to spin off the Fuel Systems and Aftermarket segments were first announced in December 2022 under its “Charging Forward” strategy.

This is just one of many recent acquisitions by Borgwarner in the electromobility sector.

The battery packs contain safety features including current overcharge protection, cell-level passive propagation resistance, and electrical disconnection at the individual cell wire bonds that satisfy international safety standards.

The company is set to supply its HVH emotors to a major Chinese OEM, with mass production of the automaker’s DHT and REEV vehicles scheduled to start in August 2023 in Tianjin.

The company is set to supply its high-voltage eFan system to a global commercial vehicle OEM for use in both the European and North American markets, which marks the first eFan system business in North America for BorgWarner.

Borgwarner stated that the acquisition is an important move for the company’s electrification business in Asia.

According to Ricardo, it has produced a prototype internal combustion engine and sent it off to Cummins and BorgWarner, who are partners in the Avanced Propulsion Centre project.

Borgwarner names senior executives, Brady Ericson and Chris Gropp to lead new entity.

The 95,000 square-foot electric propulsion engineering centre in Bangalore, India, is responsible for working on inverters, DC/DC converters, on-board chargers, integrated drive modules, battery management systems and propulsion controllers.