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Information on product, customers, and corporate structure

Reason for the change: I am a PR/comms consultant acting on behalf of Horse Powertrain. The team at Horse Powertrain would like to expand the Wikipedia page to encompass their product portfolio, customer base, and organisational structure.

At present, the article post-introduction covers only the history leading up to the incorporation of the joint venture, and lists of an assorted set of engine systems. This new information aims to expand the scope of information available to readers on what the organisation's overall product set is, what its footprint is, and how it is serving the market.

The following three sections are intended to be inserted between the current "History" and "List of Engines" section. To ensure this revision entry is contained to a single topic, the heading tags below are one-layer lower than their intended final placement (eg, a H3 "Products" tag should be a H2 tag, a H4 "Horse One"" tag should be a H3 tag).

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Products

Geely and Renault Group transferred their existing intellectual property for engines, hybrid powertrains, transmissions, and batteries to Horse Powertrain upon its creation.[1] Primarily reflecting its focus on automobile manufacturers, the company has since organized its product portfolio into three categories: One, Fusion, and X-Range.[2]

Horse One

Horse One consists of standalone engines and transmissions designed for pure-combustion and mild hybrid vehicles.

Reflecting the company’s target market of automobile and light commercial vehicle manufacturers, engines in the Horse One range consist of three- and four-cylinder units ranging between 1- to 2-liters in displacement.[3] Alongside petrol and diesel, the product range also includes engines powered by liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, ethanol, gasoline-ethanol flex fuel blends, and hydrogen.[4]

For transmissions, the Horse One range includes 5- and 6-speed manual transmission units and a 7-speed dual clutch transmission.

Horse Fusion

Horse Fusion products are designed for use within hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or range-extended EV powertrains. This range combines adapted versions of engines from the Horse One range with all-in-one hybrid electric drive units. These units, in turn, integrate electric motors, transmissions, and power systems into a single unit optimized for use alongside an engine.

Transmissions within Horse Fusion hybrid electric drive units range from 1- to 4-speed gearboxes. For propulsion, most units feature multiple motors in P1 + P2 or P1 + P3 configurations ranging from 100kW to 260kW.[3] Since its creation, Horse Powertrain has also revealed units using a single motor in a P2.5 configuration, designed to output 120kW.[5]

Horse X-Range

Horse X-Range products convert preexisting battery electric vehicles into hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or range-extended EVs. They are intended to eliminate most steps currently required for traditional hybrid system assembly and installation.[6] This is achieved by either:

  • Compact engine and generator units, designed to convert battery electric vehicles into range-extended EVs with little further modification
  • Singular engine, transmission, motor, and power units within a single housing that replace a battery electric vehicle’s electric drive unit, converting it into a hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or range-extended EV

Developed to reflect a “modular, plug-and-play mindset to ensure easy integration”, the Horse X-Range products are designed to encourage automobile manufacturers to eliminate the need for “parallel” production processes for hybrid and battery electric vehicles. By adopting a shared vehicle platform as a foundation for both pure-electric and hybrid model line-ups, this is intended to “reduce both investment pressure and risk”.[7]

Customers

On its creation, Horse Powertrain inherited Geely and Renault Group’s former combustion and hybrid powertrain divisions, becoming the standalone powertrain supplier for both manufacturers. Aside from the Geely and Renault brands, this also meant Horse Powertrain immediately launched with supply agreements for Dacia, Volvo, Proton, Nissan, Zeekr, Lynk & Co, Leapmotor, Chery, and Mitsubishi vehicles.[8][9]

Since founding, Horse Powertrain has made several more supply agreements.

In May 2024, it agreed to supply 2-liter diesel engines to Turkey’s Habaş Group for a new range of light commercial vehicles.[10] In September 2024, it agreed to supply 1-liter petrol and ethanol flex fuel engines to Brazilian start-up Lecar.[11] In October 2024, media reports surfaced that it was supplying 2-liter engines for the upcoming Mercedes-Benz CLA 250.[12]

In April 2025, the company announced it was supplying a 1.3-liter, four-cylinder engine to Caterham, the British sports car manufacturer, with the engines to first feature in the 2026 Caterham Academy series.[13]

Structure

On foundation, Horse Powertrain launched with eighteen factories and five R&D centers worldwide, with a total headcount of 19,000.[14] The company’s global headquarters in London oversees two divisions:

• Horse Technologies, made up of the nine plants and three R&D centers contributed by Renault in South America, Iberia, Romania, and Turkey • Aurobay Technologies, made up of nine plants and two R&D centers contributed by Geely in Sweden and China

In December 2024, Aramco announced that it had purchased a 10% stake in Horse Powertrain as a strategic investment in fuels, engine technology, and lubricants. Renault and Geely each retained 45% stakes in Horse Powertrain.[15]

  1. Flaherty, Nick (31 May 2024). "Renault, Geely create Horse Powertrain". eeNews Europe. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  2. "Horse Powertrain reveals Horse C15 ultra compact range extender solutions". Automotive World. 3 September 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  3. "Product Brochure" (PDF). Horse Powertrain. Horse Powertrain. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  4. "Horse Powertrain reveals full engine line-up at 2025 Auto Shanghai". Automotive World. 23 April 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  5. "Horse Powertrain showcases technology line-up at IAA Summit 2025". Cision. 8 September 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  6. Myles, Paul (18 April 2025). "Horse Powertrain Unveils Hybrid Conversion for BEVs". Wards Auto. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  7. Hildebrandt, Roland; Perez, Jeff (22 September 2025). "This Tiny Engine Could Save Internal Combustion. We Talked to the Company's CEO". Motor1.com. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  8. Anderson, Brad (3 June 2024). "Renault And Geely's Horse Powertrain Venture Is Keeping ICE Alive". CarScoops. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  9. Zhang, Yan (15 October 2025). "Horse Powertrain working with Leapmotor, Chery and JAC for global markets, executive says". Reuters. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  10. Cole, Dani. "Renault Horse supplies diesel engines to Turkish automaker HABAŞ". Just Auto. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  11. Cole, Dani (20 September 2024). "Horse partners with Lecar". Just Auto. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  12. Andrews, Mark (29 October 2024). "All-new Mercedes-Benz CLA will feature a Geely made 2.0T engine and other Chinese tech". CarNewsChina.com. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  13. Pots, Gregg (9 April 2022). "Caterham has signed a deal for its Academy cars to use engines from the Renault-Geely joint venture". Top Gear. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  14. "About". Horse Powertrain. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  15. "Aramco completes acquisition of 10% stake in Horse Powertrain Limited". Aramco. 9 December 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2026.

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Thank you for considering this addition. I have proposed this edit with the aim of full compliance with the COI guidance.

MK-PComms (talk) 18:01, 30 June 2026 (UTC)