Making the Best Electric Vehicles Takes a System-Level Approach

A holistic approach

While it’s easy to equate electrification solely with high voltage, we at Versigent understand electrification is about a whole lot more — including battery wiring, low-voltage wiring, electrical centers and interconnectors.

Versigent believes that cables and components need to function as a system. As a system-level partner, we are focused on delivering system-level solutions instead of component-level parts. 

Take the case of EV battery packs as an example. We may not make the large, powerful batteries that are shaping the future of the electric vehicle, but our unique understanding of how to reduce mass in other parts of the car helps make that future possible.

Every gram matters

The formula is quite simple: The less space that cabling takes up inside an electric vehicle, the more room there is for everything else an electric vehicle needs, including a larger battery.

Versigent’s expertise, developed over decades of design and vertical manufacturing, allows us to create designs that free up this space and reduce mass while still delivering all the required performance.

Every gram matters when it comes to making vehicles lighter, more efficient and greener. Because we understand what needs to happen in all areas of the EV architecture, we are continually finding better ways to shave mass without reducing performance.

With our architecture-optimization help, one leading EV company reduced wiring mass in its model by 10% and removed 150 meters of cabling. Similarly, another vehicle customer shed 11 kilograms and 400 meters of cabling from a popular truck. And yet another customer reduced the mass of the electrical distribution system on its SUV platform by 15%, thanks to Versigent optimization efforts that eliminated 300 meters of cabling.

Impressive numbers, for sure, but Versigent also leverages materials that can help reduce weight further, such as our PACE Award-winning Selective Metal Coating (SMC) technology. OEMs have long sought to replace heavy copper wiring harnesses with aluminum ones, but galvanic corrosion between the aluminum wiring and copper connectors has always been a deal-breaker. SMC changes all that by creating a highly engineered, lightweight coating that prevents this corrosion, allowing OEMs to swap out copper wiring with aluminum and reduce their cabling mass by as much as 50%.