Horse Powertrain Unveils Compact Future Hybrid Concept
Horse Powertrain today pulled the covers off its Future Hybrid Concept at Auto Shanghai 2025, confirming its status as a global innovator in low‑emission powertrain technology. The revolutionary hybrid powertrain integrates a petrol engine, electric motor, and transmission into a single, compact module, signalling a decisive step towards net-zero mobility.
Engineers designed the lightweight, modular unit to drop straight into an existing Battery Electric Vehicle platform without significant structural changes. Acting as a range extender, the Future Hybrid Concept delivers genuine all-wheel drive in both electric and parallel modes, allowing carmakers to hybridise BEV platforms quickly and respond to shifting customer demand while avoiding the cost of multiple vehicle architectures.
Flex‑fuel capability sits at the heart of the design. The pre-chamber ignition system supports petrol, E85 ethanol, pure M100 methanol, and advanced synthetic fuels, giving manufacturers and fleet operators the freedom to meet regional carbon-reduction strategies with minimal hardware changes.
“Horse Powertrain is solving the toughest challenge facing automotive OEMS,” explains Chief Executive Matias Giannini. “The market is moving towards a technology‑neutral future, and our Future Hybrid Concept lets brands offer true powertrain diversity with minimal disruption to their production programmes.”
Horse Powertrain will present the system at 10:00 CST on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at stand 8a17 in Hall 8.1. The firm expects the first vehicles equipped with the compact hybrid powertrain to reach public roads as early as 2028, helping OEMS reduce tooling, assembly, and certification costs by consolidating the entire hybrid component stack into a single serviceable unit.
Chief engineer Ragnar Burenius adds: “By uniting combustion engine, motor and gearbox in a single package, we reduce complexity and give designers the flexibility to integrate hybrid hardware into any BEV platform with only minor tweaks.”
Installed east–west, the Future Hybrid Concept features a slim upper profile and a broader base that meets global crash-safety standards. Its built-in controller, inverter, DC/DC converter, and 800-volt charging booster streamline installation and enable ultra-fast charging.
The compact powertrain also anticipates next-generation environmental regulations, accommodating modern R290 coolant heat-pump systems and other efficiency upgrades. Backed by 17 manufacturing plants, five R&D centres and 19,000 employees, Horse Powertrain stands ready to supply up to 80 per cent of global hybrid and combustion component demand, pushing the automotive industry closer to genuinely sustainable mobility.
