File-breaking Automobile Showcased at Peterson Automotive Museum

Abstract

Feb. 15, 2022 – In 2021, skilled long-distance driver Rainer Zietlow put in round 57,000 kilometres in a Volkswagen ID.4 in slightly below 100 days to show to the world that electrical automobiles are decidedly viable for lengthy distances. Supported by HARTING, his e-mobility highway journey traversing the USA was topped with a world document and went down in historical past books. The unique successful automotive will likely be a part of the “Driving Towards Tomorrow” exhibition collection on the Peterson Automotive Museum, LA till the tip of the 12 months. 

“Our profitable E-Mobility Problem has now reached its crowning pinnacle on the most conventional car museum in the US–and that makes me very proud.  Regardless of powerful situations, we had been capable of show that each an electrical automobile and the charging infrastructure within the USA are as much as the challenges of a long-distance journey,” as Zietlow said.

Marco Grinblats, managing director of HARTING Automotive GmbH, went on to remark: “As VW’s Tier 1 provider of charging cables and authentic gear producer of the on-board charging cables, we’re delighted that such a showcase has now been created for the ID.4 successful automotive. It is very important make folks more and more conscious of the subject of e-mobility reliability. That is the one means we give you the chance work collectively to scale back CO2 emissions and fight local weather change over the long run.”

As way back as November 2019, the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles had opened the “Driving Towards Tomorrow” multimedia exhibition. It presents the present initiatives of the automotive business with regard to the way forward for transport design. Present idea automobiles developed by chosen automotive producers worldwide are on show right here. In several rooms, the main focus is on the event of Volkswagen’s modular electrical drive.

Within the final room, the all-electric ID.4 EV, wherein record-breaking driver Rainer Zietlow accomplished his profitable spherical journey via the USA final 12 months, is now within the highlight below the title of “Constructing an Electrical Future.”

About Harting

The HARTING Expertise Group is among the world’s main suppliers of commercial connection know-how for the three lifelines of Information, Sign and Energy and has 14 manufacturing crops and 44 gross sales firms. Furthermore, the corporate additionally produces retail checkout methods, electromagnetic actuators for automotive and industrial collection use, charging gear for electrical automobiles, in addition to {hardware} and software program for purchasers and functions in automation know-how, mechanical and plant engineering, robotics and transportation engineering. Within the 2020/21 enterprise 12 months, some 6,200 workers generated gross sales of EUR 869 million.