Fluids in the electric car: New requirements

Lubricants Fluids in the electric car: New requirements

2024-05-06 From Edgar Schmidt Edgar Schmidt | Translated by AI 4 min Reading Time

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Electric cars require operating fluids, just like vehicles with internal combustion engines. The difference: the requirements for the fluids are sometimes significantly higher.

Fluids for electric cars sometimes have to meet significantly higher requirements than those for components in cars with internal combustion engines.(Image: Castrol) — Fluids for electric cars sometimes have to meet significantly higher requirements than those for components in cars with internal combustion engines.
(Image: Castrol)

Electric cars do not need an oil change, it is said. This is often used as an argument for electric drive - however it only refers to engine oil and is therefore not entirely correct. Indeed, electric cars no longer regularly need to go to the workshop for an oil change. For the manufacturers, however, the transition means completely different lubricants and cooling fluids for the drive trains. Because electric drives have different requirements for these fluids than combustion engines - in some cases significantly higher.

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