Will the electric car kill car lubricants?
Few pieces in motion, less complexity, and above all more need to drain and maintenance operations: the electric car simplifies everything.But it could also manhandle the market in ...
24/06/2022
Few pieces in motion, less complexity, and above all more need to drain and maintenance operations: the electric car simplifies everything.But it could also manhandle the fluid market.Manufacturers still adapt to the situation.
Shell, Total, Castrol, Yacco, Elf ... Should the liquid specialists intended for cars be worried about the boom in the electric car?Fewer moving parts, few fluids, very simple and theoretically maintenance -free motors, just like batteries, electric mobility brings its share of advantages.
However, there are still many liquids circulating on an electric vehicle.Cooling liquid for batteries, brake fluid, and even, on certain models, oil cooling of certain components, the market is not dead.Hyundai, for example, has decided to use synthetic oil to cool the engines of its new E-GMP platform instead of common coolant with batteries.The market is therefore not dead, but it will however have to adapt.
Castrol, for example, took the lead by taking out a range of liquids specifically suitable for electric vehicles.The British industrialist has surfed on the electric wave using names well in tune with the times: "e-wax", "fluid e-transmission" and "e-coloring".There is also a safe bet that the compositions are hardly different from the fats, transmission and cooling liquids used for thermal engines.