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Intelligent Driving being tested
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While the name Delphi will be familiar, Delphi Technologies is a new, separate global venture with a different focus. To mark the second anniversary of its creation, the company’s recently appointed VP of Engineering, Harry L. Husted, ponders the challenges ahead for powertrain innovation and explains what the company is doing in response
’d like to start by mentioning how Delphi Technologies came about, because that’s a useful illustration of some of the fundamental changes in the business of developing automotive technologies. After taking a hard look at the trends in mobility technology, we realised that the needs of a company specialising in autonomous driving and connected safety systems were significantly different from those required for the development of next-generation, low emission powertrains. The global centres of expertise for these businesses were different and they also attracted
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www.engineerlive.com New VP of Engineering Harry L. Husted
different types of investors. It was an easy decision to split Delphi Automotive into two: Aptiv, focusing on connectivity and autonomy, and powertrain specialist Delphi Technologies, with a new global headquarters in the UK. We emerged as an independent company in 2017. This was an interesting time for powertrain technologies: diesel was entering a rapid decline, electrification was being driven hard by most of the major governments and a major step in carbon dioxide targets was approaching. But change is also an opportunity and because we are a new company, we have been able to
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