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Marelli CEO expects e-powertrains to provide long-term boost

"The industry recognizes this [the current semiconductor shortage] as a real bottleneck that I would say will not be back to normal until the end of Q1," Marelli CEO Beda Bolzenius.
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January 19, 2021 05:00 AM

Marelli was created in 2019 after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sold its parts unit, Magneti Marelli, to Japan's Calsonic Kansei in a $6.5 billion deal. The supplier was in the midst of melding different cultures and industrial footprints when the pandemic hit, forcing it to switch to "survival mode." CEO Beda Bolzenius says the company is back on track and poised to keep growing, even as it invests heavily in electric powertrains and software. Bolzenius discuss this and more with Automotive News Europe Associate Published & Editor Luca Ciferri and Correspondent Andrea Mala

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