InfiMotion is an in-house developer and manufacturer of high-performance Electric Drive Units (EDUs) for the global electric and hybrid vehicle markets. By managing the entire value chain – from core components and software to final assembly – the company delivers propulsion solutions that enhance vehicle performance while accelerating the shift to sustainable mobility. Imogen Ward spoke to Senior Sustainability Specialist Dr Nicolas Acosta. Report written by Hannah Barnett.
With a business spanning the entire development chain, InfiMotion develops everything from underlying software to hardware integration, with a strong focus on core new energy power systems. What is more, as a hybrid of Swedish development and Chinese production, the company is committed to becoming a global leader in intelligent mobility solutions.
“As a supplier to the automotive industry, we have a customer-driven approach and a very attractive value proposition,” Dr Nicolas Acosta, Senior Sustainability Specialist explained. “We have a fast development cycle and are ramping up our automation capabilities to be even quicker. We have the capability to put together in short time a large, highly competitive supplier network. All this is a key part of our success.”
A brief history
InfiMotion’s main offerings include electric drives, power supply systems and electronic products for both pure electric and hybrid vehicles. At the same time, the company is proactively expanding into emerging fields such as high-performance computing for ADAS, charging infrastructure and electronics.
This mission is supported by a global team of more than 6,000 skilled employees. The company’s organisational footprint spans key international hubs, ensuring the seamless integration of research, development and production. A primary headquarters and smart, green manufacturing base in Wuxi, China, anchors the operation, bolstered by specialised sub-centres in the Shanghai area including Hangzhou Bay and Quzhou, alongside three further facilities. Meanwhile in Gothenburg, Sweden, the European hub oversees software R&D and European sales.
All this expansion is relatively new – the company was only founded in 2021. The Wuxi factory opened its doors in late 2022, as a manufacturing base for InfiMotion’s main customer Geely Auto. From there, InfiMotion launched the L402, a mass-produced 12-in-1 EDU, which is a highly integrated 400V IGBT-based powertrain system specifically engineered to power Geely’s mass-market EVs.
“That’s part of the technology direction that we’re going – combining multiple components into one,” continued Dr Acosta. “The L402 was part of the launch of the company. By 2025, we had a large European OEM programme. Another milestone is that shortly we will reach a capacity of 3.2 million EDUs per year. That’s 4.5 million e-Machines and 4.2 million inverters. This is quite a rapid expansion, I would say.”
European-Chinese operations
Automation is key to the company’s success. Its factories are nearly fully automated and produce millions of units that way.
“EDUs are made of basically three parts: the e-Machine, the inverter and the reducer,” Dr Acosta explained. “The reducer is a type of gearbox that converts the torque, and we produce them for different types of applications: passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles and heavy-duty.”
As the Chinese demand for EVs has grown rapidly, it remains the company’s primary market. As part of the Geely family, InfiMotion enjoys competitive pricing for its components due to its presence in China.
“We bring the Chinese speed and cost efficiency with a strong European footprint in customer interaction,” Dr Acosta said. “For our European customers, we lead the projects from Europe. Our software development is also based there, which supports compliance with European legal requirements. Then at the same time we can provide technology and expertise that are quite competitive and help our customers decarbonise faster, because that’s the ultimate goal here.”
Another advantage of its Gothenburg location is that many of its customers, such as Volvo and Polestar, are also located in Sweden and are part of the Geely family. While it has proven key to have a sales office and some R&D capabilities in Sweden, the company is also keen to export some Chinese methods of work to Europe.
For Dr Acosta, competitiveness starts with learning from the pace of Chinese industry: “How do we learn from how the Chinese are working and implement that here to be more competitive than the other players in the market? Part of the strategy is to challenge customer target KPIs with our quick development and low price.
“We’re very quick. We can put better, faster products into the market. We believe in enabling faster electrification and charging infrastructure in Europe.”
An electric future
As the company’s main purpose is to help customers reach their sustainability targets, InfiMotion’s sites are, unsurprisingly, designed with sustainability from the onset. All sites include solar panels and are designed to minimise industrial wastewater. The EDU itself is a highly efficient product, but there are still opportunities to decarbonise further – though they do come with some cost.
“We need our customers to be willing to take a risk,” Dr Acosta explained. “Beyond the customer demand is our ambition to decarbonise the company, but we cannot act alone. Meaningful progress requires the entire industry to move together, and it is key that the regulations support and accelerate that transition.”
Additionally, working with European customers means cascading the requirements from these large-scale OEMs throughout the supply chain. This could be in anything from collecting Environmental Product Declarations, teaching suppliers to develop carbon accounting, working together on Lifecycle Assessment data, or encouraging a strong human rights and environment due diligence programme.
According to Dr Acosta, the challenge is also an opportunity: “We’re moving a bit faster than the Chinese industry in this regard. We’re contributing to introducing European sustainability requirements into our Chinese supply-chain through close collaboration with our suppliers.”
InfiMotion is among the top suppliers of electric drive units in China, and likely the top five in the world by installed capacity. Having such significant capacity under its control means that the company is able to maintain very competitive production costs.
In July 2026, InfiMotion launched 16-in-1 intelligent e-drive that enabled the battery-electric vehicle Geely TT to set the current Guinness World Record of lowest energy consumption 8.20kWh/100km. Co-developed by Geely Auto, the system operates on a cutting-edge 800V high-voltage architecture featuring Silicon Carbide power modules to push the limits of EV efficiency.
“The product has 12 different hardware functions combined with 4 software functions,” Dr Acosta continued. “It’s very interesting. The idea of these units is that they last for the lifetime of the vehicle. So, we need to ensure high quality and long-term reliability.”
As a new company, but one that has undergone a significant scale-up, InfiMotion is undeniably in a dynamic, exciting phase. For Dr Acosta, the opportunity to help build the company from the ground up in Europe is particularly attractive.
“To have this link between Europe and China, ensuring close collaboration across teams and regions, is something that I enjoy a lot,” Dr Acosta noted. “We’re also bringing a product to market that can accelerate the decarbonisation in the automotive sector, while continuously improving its performance over time. That gives us an opportunity to help shape the transition towards low-emission mobility.”