ZF today announced that it has acquired Bestmile’s technology, representing a significant step towards launching the commercial vehicle industry’s first Mobility Orchestration Platform. Advancing ZF’s “Next Generation Mobility” strategy, this platform will help operators to realize ambitions for Transportation as a Service (TaaS) and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) for all types of mobility applications and vehicles. Leveraging increasing transportation digitalization and vehicle automation, ZF’s Orchestration platform will provide real-time coordination and management of goods and people transportation on a large scale.

ZF's active rear axle steering system AKC (Active Kinematics Control) has established itself as a successful product with one million units produced since production launch in 2013. AKC enables agility, safety, and comfort in numerous driving situations.

Friedrichshafen (Germany). One hundred percent electrification, one hundred percent efficiency: the eWorX product family enables commercial vehicle Power Take-Offs (PTOs) that are locally emission-free. Both vehicle and special body manufacturers can benefit. With this complete solution, technology company ZF supports the commercial vehicle sector through its transformation to a more sustainable future.

DB Regio AG and ZF Friedrichshafen AG have agreed on a strategic partnership to bring highly automated and autonomous bus shuttles onto the roads in Germany more quickly. Both companies see great opportunities in using driverless shuttle systems to relieve traffic in the future and offer safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly mobility.

ZF is systematically expanding its expertise in the future field of autonomous driving in line with ZF's "Next Generation Mobility" strategy. To this end, ZF has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Oxbotica, a global leader in autonomous vehicle software, to develop a Level 4 self-driving system which will initially be deployed in passenger shuttles in major cities around the world.

ZF is expanding its range of products for autonomous and electric shuttle systems. With immediate effect, the Group is not only offering the shuttle vehicles themselves, but also all the supplementary services required for the planning, implementation, operation, maintenance, and repair of autonomous passenger transport systems. ZF is directing its offer to cities and urban mobility operators to accelerate the expansion of this important mobility option. ZF shuttles can already solve many acute traffic problems today, as they get people from A to B faster and reduce the number of passenger cars as well as traffic-related emissions in metropolises. In addition, the shuttles facilitate the connection of rural areas to urban centers.

Schweinfurt (Germany). Since volume production started in 2005, four million units have rolled off the line, turning ZF's ConAct pneumatic release cylinder into a globally successful product for commercial vehicles. ConAct enables the clutches in automated commercial vehicle transmissions to be controlled more precisely, adding to more economical vehicle operation. The product also reduces the system weight.

ZF and Aston Martin have been cooperating very successfully since the 1950s - the British sports car manufacturer is one of the oldest customers of the globally operating technology company. At the time, ZF produced the manual 5-speed S5-325 sports transmission for the DB5. On behalf of Aston Martin Lagonda, ZF Tradition has now reproduced this transmission after almost 60 years – for the special reproduction of 25 true-to-original "Goldfinger" DB5 with the special James Bond gadgets. The vehicles were manufactured after pre-orders from collectors and for charity.

The ABS system has become indispensable in passenger and commercial vehicles. This safety function is also becoming increasingly popular for e-bikes.

At IAA Mobility in Munich, ZF, as a comprehensive system provider for sustainable mobility, presents its innovations - setting the tone for e-mobility and powerful central computers.