All-in-one platforms: the car is already an appliance On July 16, 2026, Geely packed sixteen functions into a 75-kilogram box and called it Thunder. Twelve are hardware — motor, controller, reducer, DC-DC converter, onboard charger, power distribution, high- and low-voltage battery management, vehicle control, thermal management, active pre-charge and power-domain gateway — and four are … Read more
Chinese engines: the war Europe didn’t want to see You’ve been told the same story for years. The petrol engine is dying. The future is electric. Internal combustion is the past. Repeated often enough that most people now believe it without checking. So let’s check. While Europe was busy closing engine plants and German manufacturers … Read more
Horse Powertrain: the quiet empire of the engine There’s an industrial empire that controls how half the planet moves around, and you’ve probably never heard its name. It doesn’t put a badge on any car. It runs no television ads. It doesn’t have a LinkedIn fanclub. But the engine in your Renault, your Dacia, your … Read more
