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CeTrax exceeds the ten thousand mark

ZF is celebrating a production milestone with its CeTrax electric central drive: over 10,000 units have been manufactured worldwide since 2019. The electric drive powers city buses and special-purpose vehicles and will be replaced by the more powerful CeTrax 2 from 2026.
ZF Friedrichshafen
• Over 10,000 CeTrax drives produced since series production began in 2019.
• Flexible use in city buses, terminal tractors and special vehicles.
• CeTrax 2 planned as a new generation from mid-2026.

Pro­duc­tion anniver­sary at ZF’s Com­mer­cial Vehi­cle Solu­tions divi­sion: In May, the ten thou­sandth unit of the CeTrax elec­tric cen­tral dri­ve was pro­duced. The com­pact elec­tric dri­ve is par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­able for elec­tri­fy­ing con­ven­tion­al bus mod­el plat­forms. In addi­tion to bus man­u­fac­tur­ers, ZF has been able to tap into oth­er cus­tomer seg­ments, such as ter­mi­nal trac­tors, as areas of appli­ca­tion. CeTrax is designed to be tech­nol­o­gy-neu­tral and can be oper­at­ed either pure­ly bat­tery-elec­tric or with a fuel cell.

Starting point for future generations

‘The CeTrax anniver­sary shows that an inno­v­a­tive con­cept, prod­uct qual­i­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty pay off in terms of unit sales,’ says Win­fried Gründler, Head of the Dri­v­e­line Tech­nol­o­gy prod­uct line in the ZF CVS divi­sion. ‘The suc­cess sto­ry of CeTrax is also the start­ing point for the next gen­er­a­tion of elec­tric dri­ves for com­mer­cial vehi­cles, now with a total weight of up to 44 tonnes.’

The starting signal was given in 2019

Series pro­duc­tion began in 2019, just two years after the sys­tem was first pre­sent­ed at the Bus­world trade fair. CeTrax is a com­plete sys­tem com­pris­ing an invert­er, elec­tron­ic con­trol unit and ZF soft­ware. It com­ple­ments the elec­tric axle dri­ve as anoth­er elec­tric dri­ve con­cept for city bus­es and spe­cial-pur­pose vehi­cles. With a con­tin­u­ous out­put of 175 kW, the sys­tem is also suit­able for demand­ing urban topogra­phies. From the out­set, CeTrax had the advan­tage of being able to be inte­grat­ed into exist­ing dri­ve con­fig­u­ra­tions. This made it attrac­tive to com­mer­cial vehi­cle man­u­fac­tur­ers who want­ed to elec­tri­fy their exist­ing diesel mod­el plat­forms. Thanks to its tech­no­log­i­cal open­ness, CeTrax can be flex­i­bly oper­at­ed with bat­tery pow­er or via fuel cells.

Industrial series production in Friedrichshafen

What began with small quan­ti­ties has devel­oped into indus­tri­al series pro­duc­tion. Today, ZF pro­duces sev­er­al thou­sand units per year in Friedrichshafen. The strong demand results from the increas­ing need for elec­tri­fi­ca­tion in pub­lic trans­port, as cities and munic­i­pal­i­ties demand sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty solu­tions.

ZF’s mis­sion state­ment for research and devel­op­ment is clear­ly defined: clean, safe, com­fort­able and afford­able mobil­i­ty – for every­one, every­where. This starts with inno­va­tions for pas­sen­ger cars and com­mer­cial vehi­cles and extends to tech­nolo­gies for con­struc­tion machin­ery, marine sys­tems and wind ener­gy.

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