LAST-MILE CARGO SOLUTIONS

Omega Seiki Mobility has partnered with Valeo india for last-mile cargo solutions. Prateek Pardeshi looks at the scope of the partnership involving the rage+ and rage+ Frost three-wheeler, cargo range.

- Prateek Pardeshi

Small Commercial Vehicles (SCVs) are in vogue! Preferred for inclusion by fleet operators for last-mile delivery, they are also the flag-bearers of all-electric drives. Omega Seiki Mobility (OSM) has a strategy in place to exploit this trend to its advantage. For it to be successful, it has zeroed in on a technical partner in Valeo India (Valeo). The latter will collaborate to build a powertrain especially suited to the duty cycles of three-wheelers aimed at cargo transportation. OSM, part of the Anglian Omega Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Valeo to source the company’s electric powertrains for the ‘Rage+’ and ‘Rage+ Frost’ range. The two partners aim to deliver on the carbon emission reductions through the collaboration.

48V E-POWERTRAIN

The 48V electric powertrain system manufactured at Valeo’s Pune plant is known to constitute a reducer, an integrated motor, and an inverter to go along with the Powertrain Control Unit (PCU) for OSM’s cargo three-wheelers range comprising of ‘Rage+’ and ‘Rage+ Frost. The vehicles under the Rage+ brand, for instance, have already been deployed by several major ecommerce and logistics companies in India.

“We are thrilled to partner with Valeo. This association will allow us to address the core issue of reducing carbon load in the atmosphere, along with providing a sustainable solution for our product line-up,” stated Uday Narang, Chairman, Omega Seiki Mobility in the company release.