Webinar: Thermal and climate management for off-highway EVs

Electrifying off-highway equipment requires engineers to use a different mindset for a fully efficient vehicle design – from battery systems and power electronics to controls, packaging, and energy management. Thermal management naturally becomes a major focus, yet one critical element is often considered only after key architectural decisions have already been made: operator climate comfort.

By the time cabin HVAC requirements enter the conversation, development teams may already be working within fixed constraints for packaging, electrical power, thermal architecture, cost, and performance. At that stage, achieving operator comfort, visibility, and safety often becomes an exercise in balancing compromises rather than optimizing the overall system.

This session explores thermal management from a vehicle-level perspective, examining why operator climate control should be considered alongside battery thermal management and power electronics cooling; not as an isolated subsystem, but as one of the machine’s fundamental thermal requirements. Drawing on real-world experience supporting off-highway OEM development programs, we’ll discuss common integration challenges, the architectural decisions that have the greatest downstream impact on thermal system performance, and practical questions engineering teams can ask earlier in the development process to reduce late-stage compromises.

Join this webinar, presented by Eberspacher, to gain a systems-level framework for evaluating thermal architecture in electrified off-highway equipment, along with practical insights that can help improve development outcomes, regardless of whether thermal systems are developed internally or in collaboration with external partners.

Sep 16, 2026, 10:15 am EDT
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See the complete session list for the Virtual Conference on EV Engineering here.

Broadcast live from September 14 to 17, 2026, the conference content will encompass the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem, including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection, wire and cable, EMI/EMC and more.