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Headline: Amazing SkateKart Chassis Can Be Fitted With Various Body Styles

Caption: It looks like it belongs in a Mad Max movie, but this skateboard e-chassis could be the future of passenger vehicles. Los Angeles company Canoo Holdings Ltd., has been developing breakthrough electric vehicles (EV) with a proprietary and highly versatile skateboard chassis for personal and business use. The eye-catching chassis is designed to underpin a range of body styles, including a van and a so-called Canoo pod. But the firm have now shown off the amazing performance of a cabin-less “skatekart”. For this , Canoo employed professional racing driver, Sara Price, to test the performance of the platform, which will serve as the backbone of all Canoo vehicles. “I was blown away by how fun it was to drive,” said Price. “The overall performance was impressive. The skateboard felt powerful, with smooth and dynamic handling, especially during high speed cornering. The drive-by-wire steering was something new for me and it felt like it was built for the track.” Unlike other platforms on the market, Canoo’s skateboard is uniquely modular, offering a truly self-contained, fully functional rolling chassis, so much so that it can be driven entirely independently. The skateboard architecture directly houses all of the most critical components of an electric vehicle, including its industry leading steer-by-wire platform, a transverse composite leaf spring suspension system, an advanced fully electric drivetrain, a proprietary battery compartment and battery thermal management systems, power electronics, vehicle controls, crash absorption structures and autonomous driving components, among others. Each of these component systems has been engineered for optimal performance and efficient packaging into Canoo’s compact platform, with a strong emphasis given to functional integration. “We wanted to showcase our skateboard’s performance and prove that our rolling chassis is a truly self-contained unit with everything needed to drive built inside,” said Ulrich Kranz, In Charge of Canoo. “We have revolutionized the platform design concept with a chassis that can be easily married with different cabins, with little adjustment, enabling us to get new vehicles on the road faster and cheaper. By keeping the most critical and expensive part of the vehicle uniform in all our models, it allows us to rapidly and cost effectively bring to market a full line-up of EVs.”

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