Daimler Truck and Gehring agree on strategic partnership for the commercial vehicle-specific application of electric motors

17. August 2022 | Blog

Pressemitteilung_Daimler Truck Gehring

Pressemitteilung_Daimler Truck Gehring

Daimler Truck AG and Gehring Technologies GmbH + Co. KG have signed an agreement on a strategic partnership focusing on building up expertise in process development and prototype construction for commercial vehicle-specific electric motors. The strategic partnership with Gehring includes the prototypical construction of so-called “truck-e-fied” eMotors as well as the further development and testing of innovative production processes.

Gehring will also supply equipment for the technical center, which is being set up at the Gaggenau plant, the competence center for electric drive components at Daimler Truck.

Gehring, based in Ostfildern, Baden-Württemberg, stands for extensive know-how in the manufacture of electric drive trains. The integrated portfolio includes production technology for manufacturing traction drives in electrified vehicles. These designs combine efficient electric motor characteristics with high automation capability and process reproducibility – essential prerequisites for large-scale automotive production.

Yaris Pürsün, Head of Global Production of Powertrain Components at Daimler Truck: “As part of the vision of the future at our German Powersystems sites, the InnoLabs play an important role: analyzing the powertrains of the future in terms of their commercial vehicle-specific application and testing innovative production methods and processes. The agreement with Gehring for “truck-e-fied” eMotors is an important building block here.”

Bernd Nagel, partner and CEO of the Gehring Group: “For a long time now, we have experienced that coordinated development of products and manufacturing processes at an early stage leads to high-performance production systems. We are therefore all the more pleased to be able to work together with Daimler Truck to develop our hairpin technologies specifically for the electric powertrain of trucks and buses. We are convinced that this strategic cooperation will enable us to significantly advance e-mobility in the field of heavy-duty vehicles.”

Caption: Bernd Nagel, CEO Gehring Group and Yaris Pürsün – Head of Global Powertrain Components Production at Daimler Truck.

A press release from Gehring Technologies GmbH + Co. KG