Autoline This Week #2227: Powertrains At The Crossroads

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 3 p.m.

Automakers face a big challenge of where to devote their capital and R and D efforts in powertrain development. How do they balance their efforts between internal combustion engines, hybrids, battery electric vehicles and fuel cells? Dave Filipe, the Vice President of Powertrain Engineering at Ford, lays out the company’s strategy of how they’re going to proceed.