REE says they’ve distilled the essence of a car right into a single “good nook” that packs exact steering, energetic suspension, and electrical propulsion right into a single upright subassembly that may, by means of software program and drive-by-wire controls, be fitted right into a chassis of your selecting – and instantly ship outcomes.
It’s an attention-grabbing thought, eliminating conventional chassis and suspension design issues like fixing for a roll heart, Ackerman (or reverse Ackerman) steering angles, and extra. All that’s performed by the computer systems, which know exactly the place every nook is and what it’s doing in … effectively, if not actual time, as near actual time as a contemporary CANbus permits.
Daniel Barel Driving a REE ‘Skateboard’
Picture courtesy REE Auto.
On this episode, we discuss all of that – together with how REE manages what seems like it might be a buttload of unsprung weight – and discover among the totally different configurations for “mission-specific automobiles” which are potential with the corporate’s “good nook” know-how. From golf carts to supercars to Class 5 industrial supply vehicles.
It’s nice stuff, and takes a lot of the heavy-lift engineering out of the equation that virtually anybody can design an EV that can work, proper out of the field. Actually, they actually have a configurator on their web site that can allow you to enter your specs, play with battery sizes, and work out the eponymous supercar/luxo cruiser/sizzling hatch of your goals. So, go give {that a} spin, then come again right here and inform us all about your visionary EV design within the feedback part on the backside of the web page.
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