Q&A

In an increasingly electrified world, there's still a need for 12-volt batteries and a low-voltage electrical architecture in vehicles. Clarios, which provides the low-voltage architecture for around a third of all vehicles in the world, sees room to grow in the electrified future. Connected vehicles, for example, bring new expectations for what a low-voltage system has to provide, including higher electrical loads. This energy is used for OTA updates when the car is not running, for example, or powering larger infotainment screens.

SAE Media editor-in-chief Sebastian Blanco spoke with Clarios president and CEO Mark Wallace and Federico Morales-Zimmermann, group vice president and general manager of original equipment, during a roundtable discussion with multiple journalists. The following Q&A from that event has been edited.