Bosch Expands Commercial Vehicle Solutions with Focus on Alternative Powertrains and Software Innovation

Bosch Expands Commercial Vehicle Solutions with Focus on Alternative Powertrains and Software Innovation

(IN BRIEF) At the IAA Transportation 2024, Bosch unveiled its plans to drive the future of commercial vehicles with diverse powertrain technologies and advanced software solutions. By 2035, Bosch expects a significant shift toward battery-electric and hydrogen-powered trucks. The company also announced a reorganization of its commercial vehicle division in 2025 to better support the growing demand for alternative powertrains. Bosch’s new technologies, including an electronic horizon system and a cryogenic hydrogen pump, aim to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions, ensuring the commercial fleet sector remains adaptable and future-ready.

(PRESS RELEASE) STUTTGART/HANNOVER, 17-Sep-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — Bosch is advancing its leadership in the commercial vehicle sector with a focus on software and diverse powertrain technologies, as highlighted at the IAA Transportation 2024 in Hannover. As the freight industry moves towards greener transportation, Bosch is expanding its portfolio to support a range of alternative powertrains, including battery-electric, fuel cells, and hydrogen engines. By 2035, Bosch predicts that over a third of new trucks will be battery-powered, with hydrogen-powered vehicles following closely behind.

Markus Heyn, Chairman of Bosch’s Mobility business sector, emphasized the importance of technology neutrality for the successful transition of commercial vehicles. Bosch is also reorganizing its commercial vehicle division, effective in 2025, to further optimize the development of innovative solutions for trucks and vans.

In addition to powertrain advancements, Bosch showcased cutting-edge technologies, including its electronic horizon system, which can reduce fuel consumption by up to 5%, and its collaboration with FirstElement Fuel to develop a cryogenic hydrogen pump, set to launch in California in 2025. Bosch’s focus on software-defined mobility ensures trucks and vans remain updatable and adaptable to future demands, helping fleet operators maximize efficiency and minimize downtimes.

About Bosch

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 429,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2023). The company generated sales of 91.6 billion euros in 2023. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. With its business activities, the company aims to use technology to help shape universal trends such as automation, electrification, digitalization, connectivity, and an orientation to sustainability. In this context, Bosch’s broad diversification across regions and industries strengthens its innovativeness and robustness. Bosch uses its proven expertise in sensor technology, software, and services to offer customers cross-domain solutions from a single source. It also applies its expertise in connectivity and artificial intelligence in order to develop and manufacture user-friendly, sustainable products. With technology that is “Invented for life,” Bosch wants to help improve quality of life and conserve natural resources. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. Bosch’s innovative strength is key to the company’s further development. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 90,000 associates in research and development, of which nearly 48,000 are software engineers.

The company was set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861–1942) as “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering.” The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant upfront investments in the safeguarding of its future. Ninety-four percent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The remaining shares are held by Robert Bosch GmbH and by a corporation owned by the Bosch family. The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG. It is entrusted with the task of safeguarding the company’s long-term existence and in particular its financial independence – in line with the mission handed down in the will of the company’s founder, Robert Bosch.

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