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With its sights set on growth with technologies for commercial vehicles, this year Schaeffler is making its first appearance as an exhibitor at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover.
With its sights set on growth with technologies for commercial vehicles, this year Schaeffler is making its first appearance as an exhibitor at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover.

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From e-motors to fuel cell drives: Schaeffler innovations premiere at IAA Transportation

  • Sustainable logistics: Schaeffler electrifies commercial vehicles and develops hydrogen mobility for the transportation sector
  • Truck powertrains of the future: Demonstration van with fuel cell drive by Schaeffler on show at IAA
  • Automation: Schaeffler develops chassis solutions for the fast-growing automated driving market

Arlandastad | September 19, 2022 | This year is Schaeffler’s first appearance as an exhibitor at IAA Transportation, the world’s leading platform for the transportation and logistics industry. Trucks and buses make up only four percent of the global vehicle stock, but account for 40 percent of global CO2 emissions in road transport. At the same time, the demands in transportation and logistics continue to increase. “This means the challenges for OEMs and suppliers are obvious: expanding electrification, reducing emissions, and developing smart solutions in automation and digitalization. We are leveraging our innovative drive and chassis products to support the development of sustainable logistics,” said Klaus Rosenfeld, Chief Executive Officer of Schaeffler AG. As a trusted partner to the transportation and logistics industry for over 75 years, Schaeffler produces more than 80 million bearings annually for commercial-vehicle customers all around the globe.

Tomorrow’s commercial vehicles will be electric
The greatest growth in the commercial vehicle powertrain market will come from electrification. “Schaeffler offers a very broad range of solutions for electric drives, and we are aiming for major growth here,” said Matthias Zink, CEO Automotive Technologies at Schaeffler AG. These solutions include electric drives for cargo bikes and electric beam axles for pick-up trucks of up to 7.5 tons in weight, as well as systems and components for electrifying large trucks. As soon as next year, Schaeffer’s first high-performance electric motors for commercial vehicles will go into series production. Alongside this, Schaeffler is already developing a new generation of oil-cooled electric motors with power conversion efficiencies of over 97 percent. Many individual components of these electric motors are manufactured in-house. For example, Schaeffler is one of only a handful of companies worldwide to have mastered such highly specialized stator winding technologies as hairpin winding and wave winding. These technologies will enable the company to produce motors of increasingly high performance.

Schaeffler anticipates that in 2030 around 60 percent of all commercial vehicles will still be powered by internal combustion engines, with about 20 percent powered with a hybrid function and approximately 20 percent all-electric. But by 2035 – just five short years later – the combustion engine share of the drive mix will have halved from 60 to 30 percent, according to Schaeffler’s projections. At that point, all-electric and fuel cell-powered vehicles will together make up about 40 percent of the market.

Fuel cell drives
Schaeffler’s technology focus for commercial vehicle powertrains also includes hydrogen. The company believes that the long-haul transportation sector will be the first adopter of fuel cell drives. However, vans will benefit from this technology too because they also regularly cover longer distances. At IAA Transportation, Schaeffler is presenting a fuel cell powered van. The vehicle’s electric axle and fuel cell stack, as well as its energy management system was developed in-house – and in the process, has significantly expanded its systems know-how in fuel cell powertrains.

Schaeffler will be industrializing the production of bipolar plates, which are strategic fuel cell components, through a joint venture called “Innoplate”. Under this joint venture Schaeffler is partnering with Symbio, itself equally owned by Forvia and Michelin, to manufacture these plates in high volume. The establishment of Innoplate was announced by Schaeffler and Symbio in June this year. The partners will commence their joint activities in Haguenau, France, as soon as regulatory approvals have been completed. Production of the high-power-density bipolar plates is expected to start in 2024.

Schaeffler develops systems and components for all types of powertrains for light and heavy commercial vehicles to decarbonize freight transportation even further. That is why Schaeffler also offers technologies to improve the efficiency of fuel injection systems. These include a variable valvetrain system designed specifically for commercial vehicles that lowers fuel consumption and emissions. Furthermore, the supplier is working on innovative engine technologies for alternative fuels. This applies particularly to the direct combustion of hydrogen in specially converted internal combustion engines. Schaeffler’s variable valvetrain system has a part to play here as it enables very precise control of the air path regardless of the fuel mixture formation method, thereby ensuring greater efficiency.

Solutions for the automation of commercial vehicles
Schaeffler’s product portfolio for commercial vehicles also includes chassis solutions for applications such as automated driving. “Here, too, we are gearing up for a growth market that will continue to gain momentum over the next few years,” Matthias Zink said. For example, the joint venture Schaeffler Paravan Technologies is developing Space Drive, a steer-by-wire system without any mechanical connection between the vehicle’s steering wheel and steering gear. This opens major new design possibilities for vehicle manufacturers. Schaeffler is systematically developing this technology for use in large-series production vehicles with the aim of enabling both automation and remote control of trucks, buses, and freight transport and logistics vehicles, thereby making them more efficient, economical, and safer.

With its sights set on growth with technologies for commercial vehicles, this year Schaeffler is making its first appearance as an exhibitor at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover.
Photo: Schaeffler (Digitas Pixelpark)

Schaeffler is presenting an array of innovative technologies for the transportation and logistics industry at IAA Transportation 2022.
Photo: Schaeffler (Jung von Matt)

Schaeffler’s high-performance electric motors feature an efficiency of over 97 percent and a continuous drive power output of up to 300 kW.
Photo: Schaeffler (Jung von Matt)


At the IAA Transportation show in Hanover, Schaeffler is presenting a demonstration vehicle built from the ground up on the basis of an electric van. The vehicle is driven by a Schaeffler 3in1 e-axle powered by a fuel cell system made using Schaeffler components.

Photo: Schaeffler (Daniel Karmann)

Schaeffler provides innovative powertrain and chassis products that will help automotive manufacturers reduce their vehicles’ fuel consumption and emissions and seize the opportunities afforded by automated driving and digitalization.

Photo: Schaeffler

Click here for a press photo of Klaus Rosenfeld and Matthias Zink:
www.schaeffler.com/en/executive-board

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Schaeffler Group är en globalt verksam leverantör till fordons- och tillverkningsindustrin och har i mer än 75 år tillhört pionjärerna med banbrytande uppfinningar och utvecklingsarbete inom rörelseteknik och mobilitet. Med sina innovativa tekniska lösningar, produkter och tjänster inom CO₂-effektiv drivning, elmobilitet, Industri 4.0, digitalisering och förnybar energi utgör Schaeffler en tillförlitlig partner för företag som vill göra rörelseteknik och mobilitet effektivare, intelligentare och hållbarare. Schaefflergruppen levererar precisionskomponenter och system för drivlinor och chassin liksom rullningslager- och glidlagerlösningar för ett stort antal industriella applikationer. Under 2021 kunde företagsgruppen redovisa en omsättning på 13,9 miljarder Euro och är med sina cirka 83 000 medarbetare ett av världens största familjeägda företag. Med fler än 1 800 patentansökningar 2021 var Schaeffler enligt tyska patent- och registreringsverket DPMA det tredje mest innovativa företaget i Tyskland.

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Schaeffler Group har drivit fram banbrytande uppfinningar och utvecklingar inom området rörelseteknologi i över 75 år. Med innovativa teknologier, produkter och tjänster inom elektrisk mobilitet, CO₂-effektiv drivning, chassilösningar, Industri 4.0, digitalisering och förnybar energi är företaget en pålitlig partner för att göra rörelse mer effektiv, intelligent och hållbar – under hela livscykeln. Rörelseteknikföretaget tillverkar högprecisionskomponenter och system för drivlinor och chassiapplikationer samt rullnings- och glidlagerlösningar till ett stort antal industriella applikationer. Schaeffler-gruppen omsatte 16,3 miljarder EUR 2023. Med cirka 83 400 anställda är Schaeffler-gruppen ett av världens största familjeägda företag och ett av Tysklands mest innovativa företag.

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