Horse Powertrain will reveal its Horse C15 vary extender system at IAA Mobility 2025 in Munich, Germany, providing automakers a compact answer 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 dimensions of a briefcase, may be put in horizontally or vertically in both the entrance compartment or rear of current EV platforms.
The expertise permits unique tools producers to rework BEV platforms into range-extended EVs, increasing their product choices to satisfy totally different market calls for. Vary-extended automobiles use the combustion engine to take care of battery cost ranges somewhat than instantly powering the wheels, with the electrical motor offering all traction.
“Vary prolonged EVs are the fastest-growing powertrain class in lots of international markets,” stated Matias Giannini, CEO of Horse Powertrain. “The Horse C15 vary extender answer presents OEMs a simple and cost-effective technique to faucet this chance, and adapt their native BEV platforms into REEVs. We imagine demand for REEVs will proceed to develop. Horse C15 will play a vital function on this transition, as one of many market’s most effective and versatile REEV options thus 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 supplies as much as 70kW of engine energy. A turbocharged variant for D-segment automobiles and light-weight industrial 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 decreasing prices and weight whereas sustaining driving vary. The method additionally reduces strain on vital mineral provide chains utilized in battery manufacturing.
The combustion engine in range-extended automobiles operates inside its most effective revolution vary, which the corporate says minimizes gasoline consumption and emissions whereas lowering noise, vibration, and harshness in comparison with conventional hybrid methods. Not like plug-in hybrid or typical hybrid automobiles, the engine by no means instantly drives the wheels.
Vary-extended automobiles keep the driving traits of battery electrical automobiles, together with clean acceleration and responsiveness, whereas retaining the power to cost from public charging stations or home energy provides. When mixed with low-carbon fuels, the corporate states the lifecycle environmental impression 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.
