FORVIA HELLA took its first 3-in-1 battery management order and a 48-volt PowerPack deal

FORVIA HELLA said on October 8 that it had received two series orders for its EnergyCore products, covering its first 3-in-1 high-voltage battery management system and a 48-volt PowerPack. The two systems go to two different international carmakers, one in the Americas and one in Europe, and the company put the combined order volume from both customers in the mid-three-digit million-euro range. Series production is scheduled to begin in December 2027 and in spring 2028 respectively.

The 3-in-1 system integrates the battery management unit, the cell measurement units and the battery junction box into a single architecture. FORVIA HELLA said the solution is among the first to bring those three functions together in one unit, and that doing so enables direct control of the high-voltage current flow between the battery and the vehicle, resulting in faster system responses and improved functional safety. It said optimized cell monitoring reduces the number of cell measurement units required, and with them the component count, wiring effort, space, weight and system cost.

The system was designed first for larger full-hybrid vehicles. The company said the architecture is scalable, can be adapted to different carmaker requirements and battery pack designs, and that the basic concept can also be applied to fully electric vehicles. The 48-volt PowerPack combines a low-voltage DC/DC converter with a low-voltage battery management system in one product.

FORVIA HELLA also disclosed an earlier nomination to develop and manufacture a 12-volt lithium-ion battery pack in China. Chief executive Peter Laier tied the orders to parent FORVIA Group’s IGNITE strategy and said customers increasingly value integrated system solutions that reduce complexity while keeping the flexibility to address different vehicle architectures. The range the company gave is the only figure on the record, and neither carmaker was named. Parent FORVIA SE filed the announcement as regulated news to Euronext Paris the same morning; that filing names no customer and gives no precise value either.