Delphi working on products for hybrids


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CHAMPION — Delphi Packard Electric is devoting more of its engineers at its local technical center to working on products for hybrid vehicles.

Randall Sumner, director of global hybrid business development, said the shift of engineering focus is needed because the company’s hybrid business is growing.

Part of the effort is creating a hybrid prototype laboratory and an accredited test facility. Test models of components for hybrid systems will be built in the lab.

Packard, a division of Michigan-based Delphi Corp., makes wiring systems for vehicles. Locally, it produces cable and plastic and metal parts.

Included in the company’s hybrid portfolio are high-power connection systems that have special shields and high-voltage wiring assemblies and battery parts.

Sumner said having a hybrid development at the technical center in Champion is a good fit because it is near the company’s molding and stamping plants in Trumbull County. Potential and existing customers who are visiting Packard can see the full extent of its production capabilities, he said.

Packard will feature a display of its hybrid technology at the Society of Automotive Engineers 2009 World Congress in Detroit next week.

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