Press Release, 18 January 2025
ZF announced the India launch of its next-generation digital fleet management platform, SCALAR, at the Bharat Mobility Expo 2025. Designed to address diverse customer needs, SCALAR offers cutting-edge features to optimise the operations of commercial fleets, enhancing efficiency, safety, and sustainability for both passenger and cargo transport.
Announcing the launch at Bharat Mobility Expo 2025, Mr. P Kaniappan, MD ZF Commercial Vehicles Control Systems India Ltd., said: “At ZF, we are committed to pioneering digital solutions that drive the future of mobility. By introducing SCALAR in India, we are delivering the industry’s first comprehensive fleet orchestration solution tailored to the unique and diverse requirements of the Indian market.
Mr. Shanmugasundaram Natarajan, Head of Digital Solutions Business, CVCS India added, “ The platform provides advanced capabilities that enhance fleet productivity while reducing operational costs, whether it’s for cargo or passenger applications. With its state-of-the-art features that will evolve with emerging trends, SCALAR will help make transportation in India smarter, safer and more sustainable for all,”
Transformative Features for Smarter Fleets
A key advantage offered by SCALAR is that it uses AI and self-learning algorithms to analyse historical data, optimise fleet planning, routing, and dispatching. The platform also offers real-time data and predictive analytics to enable fleet managers to ensure that their vehicles are directed to the right place at the right time. This includes helping select the most fuel-efficient and less environmentally impactful route, supporting fleet sustainability and reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
The platform can also enhance reliability levels by providing actionable insights into vehicle performance, predictive maintenance, and driver behaviour, helping to increase productivity, avoid unplanned downtime and improve overall fleet management. The platform supports fleets composed of vehicles with a combustion engine and electric vehicles, or a mix of both, transporting people or goods.
About ZF
ZF is a global technology company supplying advanced mobility products and systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and industrial technology. Its comprehensive product range is primarily aimed at vehicle manufacturers, mobility providers and start-up companies in the fields of transportation and mobility. ZF electrifies a wide range of vehicle types. With its products, the company contributes to reducing emissions, protecting the climate as well as enhancing safe mobility. Alongside the automotive sector – passenger cars and commercial vehicles – ZF also serves market segments such as construction and agricultural machinery, wind power, marine propulsion, rail drives and test systems.
About CVS Division
ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) division is helping shape the future of commercial transportation ecosystems. Our mission is to be the preferred global technology partner to the commercial vehicle industry. Powerfully combining ZF’s commercial vehicle systems expertise, extensive technology portfolio and global operations, the division serves the full commercial vehicle industry value chain. As the automotive industry progresses towards an increasingly autonomous, connected, and electrified (ACE) future, ZF’s CVS division innovates, integrates and supplies components and advanced control systems that help make commercial vehicles and fleets operate more safely and sustainably. CVS unites ZF’s former Commercial Vehicle Technology and Commercial Vehicle Control Systems divisions, the latter being formed following ZF’s acquisition of WABCO in Spring 2020.
