Hyundai Mobis has begun mass production of Power Electric (PE) systems at a new plant in Nováky, Slovakia, the company’s first European site building the integrated electric powertrain units. A PE system combines an electric motor, an inverter and a reduction gear in a single assembly.
The plant, in Slovakia’s Trenčín Region, sits on a site of roughly 106,000 square meters and has 8,500 square meters of floor area. Its lines produce stators, a core component of the electric motors, along with inverters and other parts, and the facility has annual capacity of up to 280,000 PE systems. Hyundai Mobis puts its investment in the site at roughly 250 billion Korean won.
Integrating the motor, inverter and gearbox into one unit shortens the high-current connections between inverter and motor and reduces the volume the drivetrain occupies compared with separately mounted components. Shorter three-phase cabling also cuts resistive losses and the electromagnetic interference the cables radiate.
Nováky is Hyundai Mobis’s third electrification plant in Europe, following battery system assembly (BSA) plants in the Czech Republic and Spain, and the first of the three built for PE systems rather than battery packs. The company says it develops and mass-produces the full range of EV components in-house, and it runs electrification plants at Ulsan, Daegu, Chungju and Pyeongtaek in Korea, as well as in the US and Indonesia.
Hyundai Mobis expects Nováky to supply electrification components to Hyundai Motor and Kia along with other global customers, and the company has set a goal of raising the share of revenue it earns from global customers to 40% by 2033.
“Looking ahead, strategic models from global automakers equipped with Hyundai Mobis PE systems will lead the European electrification market,” said Lee Gyu Suk, Hyundai Mobis’s President and CEO.
Source: Hyundai Mobis
