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Skateboard (automotive Platform)
A skateboard is a type of configuration for automotive chassis, used for automotive platforms of battery electric vehicles. The skateboard chassis includes a base structure or a platform, which houses the batteries, electric motors and other electronic components fundamental to an electric vehicle. A skateboard chassis cuts down the cost and complexity of manufacturing and production of electric vehicles, as it is a self-contained platform, with all the necessary driving and electronic components integrated into it, and which can be mounted with a variety of bodies after scaling them into various sizes. The skateboard allows an automaker to design and manufacture vehicles in several vehicle categories and body segments without engineering each one independently. Examples * Tata Motors acti.ev Advanced Connected Tech Intelligent Electric Vehicle Architecture * Cenntro iChassis * Gaussin Road truck skateboard * Bollinger Skateboard, the chassis basis for Bollinger's vehicles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyundai Electric Global Modular Platform Showcase
Hyundai is a former South Korean industrial conglomerate ("''chaebol''"), which was restructured into the following groups: * Hyundai Group, parts of the former conglomerate which have not been divested ** Hyundai Asan, a real estate construction and civil engineering company * Hyundai Motor Group, the automotive part of the former conglomerate ** Hyundai Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer ** Hyundai Mobis, a car parts company ** Hyundai Motorsport, a racing team ** Hyundai Rotem, a manufacturer of railway vehicles, defense systems, and factory equipment ** Hyundai Engineering and Construction, a construction company * HD Hyundai Group, the heavy industry part of the former conglomerate ** HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, the primary company representing the group ** HD Hyundai Mipo, a shipbuilding company ** HD Hyundai Samho, a shipbuilding company ** HD Hyundai Oilbank, a petroleum refinery company * Hyundai Department Store Group, the retail division of the former conglomerat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Motors BEV3 Platform
The General Motors BEV3 platform is a dedicated electric vehicle architecture or platform developed by General Motors. It is the third-generation electric vehicle platform by GM, succeeding the BEV2 platform. It is categorized as a skateboard platform. History Honda announced it would partner with General Motors to develop "next-generation" batteries in 2018. The BEV3 architecture was first announced by GM in January 2019, with Cadillac announced as the lead marque, and BEV3 was officially detailed on March 4, 2020, during the GM EV Day briefing in Warren, Michigan, and supports Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive motors. In 2021, Honda announced it would release two SUVs in 2024 under the Honda and Acura marques, developed in partnership with GM; it was clarified in 2022 the new Honda SUVs would be built alongside GM SUVs, using Ultium batteries and GM's electric vehicle platform. Design The BEV3 platform is designed to support unibody passenger cars and crossover utility veh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucid Air LEAP Platform
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Lucid Air
The Lucid Air is a Battery electric vehicle, battery electric four-door luxury Sedan (automobile), sedan made by Lucid Motors. The car was announced in December 2016 and sold starting in 2021. The Dream Edition's United States Department of Energy, EPA range is estimated at , the longest on the market . The production model was unveiled in September 2020, and production began in late 2021. In November 2020, the Lucid Air Pure was announced with of projected range and and a starting price of US$77,400. The range of trim levels includes Pure, Touring, Grand Touring, and Dream Edition. On September 28, 2021, Lucid Motors announced that production had begun, with the base Pure model expected in late 2022. Deliveries commenced on October 30, 2021, with the first reservation holders taking delivery of Air Dream Editions in an event in California. __TOC__ History The Lucid Air was conceived in the early 2010s, with a concept car, prototype unveiled to the public in 2016, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xpeng SEPA
Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology Co., Ltd., trading as XPeng Motors ( zh, c=小鹏汽车, p=Xiǎopéng Qìchē), commonly known as XPeng, is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer. The company is headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong, with offices in Mountain View, California, United States and Munich, Germany. XPeng stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. History XPeng was co-founded in August 2014 by Xia Heng (Henry Xia) and He Tao, former senior executives at GAC Group with expertise in automotive technology and research and development. Initial backers included: the founder of UCWeb and former Alibaba executive He Xiaopeng, namesake and current Chairman of XPeng, and Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi. Prominent Chinese and international investors included Alibaba, Foxconn and IDG Capital. A further funding round in 2018 saw Alibaba's vice president Joseph Tsai join the corporate board of XPeng. XPeng's subsidiary in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XPeng
Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology Co., Ltd., Trade name, trading as XPeng Motors ( zh, c=小鹏汽车, p=Xiǎopéng Qìchē), commonly known as XPeng, is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer. The company is headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong, with offices in Mountain View, California, United States and Munich, Germany. XPeng stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. History XPeng was co-founded in August 2014 by Xia Heng (Henry Xia) and He Tao, former senior executives at GAC Group with expertise in automotive technology and research and development. Initial backers included: the founder of UCWeb and former Alibaba Group, Alibaba executive He Xiaopeng, namesake and current Chairman of XPeng, and Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi. Prominent Chinese and international investors included Alibaba, Foxconn and IDG Capital. A further funding round in 2018 saw Alibaba's vice president Joseph Tsai join the corporate board of XPeng. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkswagen Group MEB Platform
The Volkswagen Group MEB platform (, 'modular electric-drive toolkit') is a modular car platform for electric cars developed by the Volkswagen Group and its subsidiaries.Julian RendellSkoda electric vehicle under development '' Autocar''. Published on 16 March 2016. It is used in models of Audi, Cupra, Škoda, and Volkswagen, along with Ford through partnership. The architecture is aimed to "consolidate electronic controls and reduce the number of microprocessors, advance the application of new driver-assistance technology and somewhat alter the way cars are built" by the VW Group. Plans The MEB platform is part of a Volkswagen strategy to start production of new battery electric vehicles between 2019 and 2025. In 2017, the VW Group announced a gradual transition from combustion engine to battery electric vehicles with all 300 models across 12 brands having an electric version by 2030. As of May 2018, the VW Group had committed in electric-vehicle batteries supplies [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VIA Motors
VIA Motors is an American electric vehicle development and manufacturing company based in Orem, Utah. It was founded in 2010. History VIA Motors was spun off in November 2010 from Raser Technologies, the engineering company that, in 2009, showed a Hummer H3 said to be capable of returning 100 miles per gallon when fitted with Raser's range-extender plug-in powertrain. Bob Lutz, former vice-chairman of GM credited as "Father of the Chevy Volt", featuring an extended-range electric powertrain called Voltec Voltec, formerly known as E-Flex, is a General Motors powertrain released in November 2010. The Voltec architecture is primarily a Plug-in electric vehicle, plug-in capable, battery-dominant electric vehicle with additional fossil fuel powered Hybr ..., joined as chairman in 2011. In 2011, VIA raised $5.3 million from private investors including Carl Berg. Its fleet customers included Rocky Mountain Power. In August 2021, Ideanomics announced their intent to acquire VIA Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tesla Motors
Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it designs, manufactures and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs), stationary battery energy storage devices from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar shingles, and related products and services. Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. Its name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, Elon Musk led Tesla's first funding round and became the company's chairman; in 2008, he was named chief executive officer. In 2008, the company began production of its first car model, the Roadster sports car, followed by the Model S sedan in 2012, the Model X SUV in 2015, the Model 3 sedan in 2017, the Model Y crossover in 2020, the Tesla Semi truck in 2022 and the Cybertruck pickup truck in 2023. Tesla is one of the world's most valuable companies in terms of mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sustainable Experience Architecture Platform
The Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA; ) platform is a modular electric vehicle platform developed by Zeekr Technology Europe (previously China Euro Vehicle Technology), a company based in Gothenburg, Sweden within Geely Automobile Holdings group of companies. The platform is used in Geely Holding portfolio brands along with the Smart joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Group. Geely refers the SEA platform as "open-source," meaning the manufacturer is open to supply the platform to other automakers. Geely Holding has claimed it has entered into preliminary discussions with other manufacturers about potential use of the SEA platform. Overview The SEA platform is more of an architecture that unifies multiple platforms covering almost all vehicle types. The platform consists of several different core versions covering a variety of market segments with different marketing names: * SEA1 (previously PMA1,the Pure electric Modular Architecture) for E-segment executive cars wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivian
Rivian Automotive, Inc., is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and automotive technology company founded in 2009. Rivian produces an electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), a pickup truck on a Skateboard (automotive platform), "skateboard" platform that can support future vehicles or be adopted by other companies, and an electric delivery van, the Rivian EDV. Rivian started deliveries of its Rivian R1T, R1T pickup truck in late 2021. The company planned to build an exclusive Electric vehicle charging network, charging network in the United States and Canada by the end of 2023. Rivian is based in Irvine, California, with its manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois, and other facilities in Palo Alto, California; Carson, California; Plymouth, Michigan; Burnaby, British Columbia; Wittmann, Arizona; Woking, Woking, England; and Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. Rivian has plans to build another US$5 billion factory in the US state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, in Social Circle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
