Driventic begins production of the VEDS 1.5 electric drivetrain for commercial vehicles

Driventic has begun manufacturing the VEDS 1.5, the latest version of the electric drive system (VEDS) it supplies to bus and truck manufacturers. The main change is a new drive inverter system (DIS) that carries an integrated drive management unit. The DIS weighs 22 kg and uses a connector system that the company says is automotive-compliant and allows faster installation and easier maintenance. Driventic says it has further optimized the motor, and that the system meets automotive cybersecurity standards under ISO 21434.

The VEDS is a direct-drive system built around a water-cooled permanent-magnet motor, a traction inverter and control software, and it is offered in two motor variants. Driventic’s product documentation puts the heavy-duty motor at 3,100 Nm and 320 kW of 30-minute continuous power, and the medium-duty motor at 2,850 Nm and 240 kW of continuous power. Peak power for the VEDS 1.5 runs up to 390 kW. Auxiliary components including a power distribution box, charging control unit and auxiliary inverters are available as an extended package.

Driventic has been on the market since November 2025 as a spin-off of parts of the drive systems division of Voith, and its products are developments of Voith systems. The VEDS launched in 2019, and the company says it is in use in bus applications worldwide. “We have already supplied more than 4,000 VEDS solutions to vehicle manufacturers,” said Manuel Calero, Senior Vice President of E-Mobility at Driventic.

Driventic will also launch a system for heavy-duty trucks whose motor uses combined water and oil cooling. Oil reaches the rotor and the stator end windings directly, and a motor cooled that way can hold higher continuous torque through the long, heavily loaded duty cycles of a truck than a water jacket alone allows. A separate version, the VEDS 2.2, is intended for lighter truck classes.

The company is also moving into retrofits, converting used diesel vehicles to electric drivetrains. It has run bus conversion projects in Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg and in Tittenkofen in Bavaria, and says it is working on making such conversions easier to carry out.

Driventic plans to set up local production of the VEDS and platforms based on it in China and the US.

Source: Driventic