FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — Holger Klein, CEO of ZF Friedrichshafen, said young automotive brands such as Tesla, Nio, Xpeng and Lucid are pushing the old German supplier in a different way than traditional automakers.
“They have a different expectation on speed,” he said. “Speed is king.”
The emerging brands want ZF’s newest technologies as quickly as possible, even if some bugs haven’t been eliminated in development.
“If your latest innovation feature doesn’t work as reliably as…
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