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ZF expands its R&D capacities in Friedrichshafen

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ZF Friedrichshafen AG has opened the doors of its new testing centre for drive technologies. This centre provides extended capacities for testing electric, hybrid and combustion engine drives in Friedrichshafen.

The company also took the opportunity to announce its future plans for the R&D Centre site with the construction of a new office building next to the testing centre, designed to create additional working space for the developers who work there.

“The new testing centre for drive technologies is the fitness centre for mobility of the future. This is where all of ZF’s vehicle drives are technologically fine-tuned to get them in peak condition,” said Chief Executive Officer of ZF, Wolf-Henning Scheider.

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ZF spins off Car eWallet as a payments start-up

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ZF Friedrichshafen has founded a new startup called Car eWallet, in which the company will outsource the current activities of the transaction service Car eWallet.

The objective is to further develop and market the service following an initial six-month collaboration with project partners IBM and UBS, which successfully concluded this spring.

The service, for example, enables payments for refueling or re-charging electric cars.  [Read more…] about ZF spins off Car eWallet as a payments start-up

ZF launches essentially driverless forklift truck

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Automotive technology developer ZF Friedrichshafen has launched a forklift truck which is basically driverless.

The company calls the vehicle a “highly automated forklift” which can “see, think and act”.

ZF says it transferred expertise from different departments from across the company to the industrial technology division in order to develop the new forklift.  [Read more…] about ZF launches essentially driverless forklift truck