Commercial vehicle electrification is moving faster than the low-voltage architectures underneath it. As power demand on the LV side rises and 400 V / 800 V HV networks become the norm, OEMs increasingly find that a stand-alone HV/LV DC/DC converter is no longer sufficient. Fragmented LV architectures drive up cost, wiring, packaging volume and failure risk, and slow down the launch of new BEV and FCEV platforms.
Most of today’s HV/LV DC/DC know-how has been built up in passenger cars: 400–800 V HV bus, 12 V LV net, tightly optimized OBC + DC/DC combos, ASIL B safety goals and mature AUTOSAR Classic stacks. Commercial vehicles reuse a lot of that DNA—but the constraints are meaningfully different: multi-rail LV nets, kW-class LV loads, 15+ year service life, mixed-fleet cybersecurity exposure and various type-approvals on platforms that ship in far lower volumes than passenger cars.
This session is designed to help automotive engineers map what they already know onto the CV world and then show where those familiar patterns need to evolve.
Join us as we illustrate how re-thinking the HV/LV DC/DC converter as a true Power Conversion Centre—a modular platform that consolidates conversion, LV distribution, battery equalization, pre-charge, protection and diagnostics—can accelerate development, reduce cost, and de-risk both functional safety and cybersecurity compliance for MD/HD trucks, buses and LCVs.
Sep 16, 2026, 11:00 am EDT
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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.
