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Last-mile Cargo Solutions
Omega Seiki Mobility has partnered with Valeo India for last-mile cargo solutions. Prateek Pardeshi looks at the scope of the partnership involving the Rage+ and Rage+ Frost three-wheeler, cargo range.
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mall Commercial Vehicles (SCVs) are in vogue! Preferred for inclusion by fleet operators for last-mile delivery, they are also the flag-bearers of all-electric drives. Omega Seiki Mobility (OSM) has a strategy in place to exploit this trend to its advantage. For it to be successful, it has zeroed in on a technical partner in Valeo India (Valeo). The latter will collaborate to build a powertrain especially
suited to the duty cycles of three-wheelers aimed at cargo transportation. OSM, part of the Anglian Omega Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Valeo to source the company’s electric powertrains for the ‘Rage+’ and ‘Rage+ Frost’ range. The two partners aim to deliver on the carbon emission reductions through the collaboration.
48V e-powertrain The 48V electric powertrain system manufactured at Valeo’s Pune plant, is known to constitute a reducer, an integrated motor and an inverter to go along with the Powertrain Control Unit (PCU) for OSM’s cargo threewheelers range comprising of ‘Rage+’ and ‘Rage+ Frost. The vehicles under the Rage+ brand, for instance, have already been deployed by several major ecommerce and
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