Concept exploration
The optimal simulation tool for fast, efficient, and accurate
e-powertrain analysis
Select and validate the ideal architecture before you commit 99% of your budget
customer stories
Our customer stories
Defense & Aerospace
Battlefield Mission Simulation for Hybrid-Electric Defence Vehicles
Dstl used ePop to assess hybrid-electric powertrain performance across a range of realistic battlefield scenarios. Architecture studies covered light military vehicles, main battle tanks, exportable power configurations, and legacy fleet upgrades. This is a materially different level of engagement from a reference customer.
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Defense & Aerospace
Canadian Armed Forces: Hydrogen Feasibility at Programme Scale
The National Research Council of Canada used ePOP to evaluate five hydrogen powertrain concepts against a diesel baseline for a heavy logistics vehicle. The drive cycle finding – that results varied significantly depending on whether a simplified road cycle or a realistic operational profile was used – changed how the programme was scoped. ePOP surfaced that issue before specifications were locked.
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Automotive & CV
JLR ExCEED Collaboration
Jaguar Land Rover used ZeBeyond’s ePOP to accelerate electric powertrain design and balance performance, weight, and sustainability before prototyping.
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Automotive & CV
Stellantis Driveline Collaboration
Stellantis and ZeBeyond collaborated to accelerate electrified driveline development through innovative iteration between powertrain component and system level.
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Automotive & CV
A2MAC1 ZeBeyond partnership
The full A2MAC1 XEV library is now available in a dynamic simulation environment, enabling OEMs and Tier-1s to validate efficiency and performance in days instead of the year-long teardown and dyno process. Plus allowing eMotor innovators to reach prototypes faster through rapid virtual concept demonstrations in real vehicle models.
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Automotive & CV
Höganäs Steel Innovation
Höganäs used ZeBeyond's ePOP to simulate Somaloy SMC materials in a volume vehicle application, revealing system-level gains in performance, design flexibility, downsizing, and CO2 reduction.
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Pain points
Electrification increases architectural complexity, but concept-stage tools are either too basic or too complex, costly, and slow
Simple tools like spreadsheets are accessible but cannot evaluate thousands of architecture combinations or apply validated physics across a multi-variable design space.
CAE tools are rigorous but require full bills of materials, specialist operators, and long model-building cycles. They are suited for detailed design, not early concept work.
The risk is not finding the wrong answer, but settling on a local optimum, the best among limited options, while better architectures remain unexplored.
Analysis is only valuable if results are clear and actionable. Most tools fail to translate complex outputs into decision-ready insights for non-technical stakeholders.
Our response
ePOP gives you expert-level simulation power to deliver rigorous architecture answers at concept stage
Developed in 2018 within Drive System Design, ePOP is used by 2,200+ engineers across OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers and built on a decade of real programme experience. It applies validated physics using real mission data to define architectures at concept stage.
Solutions
With ePOP, you can:
CORE EXPERIENCE / HERITAGE
We cut our teeth in automotive: the lessons are now serving Defence
Automotive
ePOP was developed and refined across automotive electrification programmes for global OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. Built on thousands of projects, ZeBeyond brings proven expertise — not just software.
Capabilities that took automotive decades to build are now available to defence, applied to your mission profiles and timelines.
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Years in automotive
Tier-1
Validated with OEMs
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Reliability proven in production
ISO certified
Global quality standards met
Defence & Aerospace
Off-Highway
Commercial Vehicle
Automotive
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Number of platforms
Many
High
System efficiency
Low
concept phase
Use ePOP across the engineering programme: from concept exploration to component specification
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ePOP can display data from benchmark measurements side-by-side with the concepts being explored, allowing teams to easily compare performance metrics.
ePOP has frequently used system level architectures built-in to allow rapid investigations without the need to build models from scratch.
ePOP enables creating, importing, and viewing components in isolation — and combining many into system-level solutions for design exploration.
In its component models, ePOP allows higher fidelity to include detailed design choices (such as material selection) very early in the concepting phase.
Acceptance test
Product maintenance
System verification
Component integration
Why choose us
Challenge assumptions before you commit 95% of time and 99% of budget
The concept phase uses just 1–5% of resources, yet defines the lifecycle. Conventional approaches risk a local optimum. ePOP evaluates thousands of configurations to find the best solution, not just a few.
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<30 minutes set up
Start getting architecture answers almost immediately
>90% system performance
Achieved by aligning neighbouring subsystems through simulation
>6 months saved
By prototyping virtually instead of hardware trial and error
<5 CO₂e per kg of mass
Achieved through material-property-level screening