Commercial Vehicle Solutions

OptiRide

Electronically Controlled Air Suspension (ECAS)

Key Facts

Enhanced Safety

Improves driving stability and vehicle handling

Driver Comfort

Enhanced suspension increases passenger & driver comfort

Enhanced Stability

Mitigates high center of gravity in vehicles with roof BAT

Fleet Management​

Transfers vehicle utilization information via telematics​

What can OptiRide provide?

ZF’s electronically controlled air suspension solution helps to increase passenger and driver safety, enhancing vehicle stability through mitigation of excessive pitching and rolling, while also improving comfort through better ride quality and effortless entry and exit. A broad variety of value-adding functionalities enable fleets to bring their daily operations to a whole new level.

Details

OptiRide ECAS

Value-adding functions improving safety and comfort for drivers and passengers to bring your daily operations to another level​

Customer Benefits:​
  • Helps to increase comfort for drivers and passengers through excellent ride quality​
  • Supports safer and effortless passenger entry and exit​
  • Helps drivers to adhere to maximum number of passengers​
  • Contributes to more efficient utilization of vehicles​
  • Offers intelligent interaction with other systems like Door Control​

OptiRide ECAS

Improves comfort and safety for passengers and drivers through chassis height adjustments and enhanced vehicle handling​

Features & Capabilities:​
  • Optimizes the chassis height on air-suspended axles​
  • Improves handling through enhanced suspension quality​
  • Ensures automatic return-to-ride height​
  • Enables transfer of utilization data via telematics integration​
  • Operated by dashboard switch​

Electronic Shock Absorber Control (ESAC)

Provides buses with various benefits through automatic damper adjustments to help increase the comfort and safety of your fleet​

Customer Benefits:​
  • Mitigates excessive pitching and rolling​
  • Helps to improve passenger and driver comfort​
  • Increased driving stability improves vehicle handling​
  • Improved uptime thanks to extended component life

Electronic Shock Absorber Control (ESAC)

Balances undesirable chassis movements through continuous adjustment of damper settings to improve safety and comfort for commercial vehicles​

Features & Capabilities:​
  • Seamlessly integrates with OptiRide
  • Enables continuous damping control​
  • Mitigates effects of high center of gravity for vehicles with roof-mounted batteries​
  • Able to provide advanced stability control in combination with OptiRide and ESCsmart

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