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. It also has removable and replaceable corner units at the wheels, in which the suspension, steering, powertrain and braking functions are embedded into.

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. Electric vehicles are still low-volume production commodities, and that makes them expensive to fabricate or assemble. The skateboard allows an automaker to design and manufacture vehicles in several vehicle categories and body segments without engineering each one exhaustively.

Examples[]

• Tesla Skateboard, a platform family based on the skateboard chassis configuration, used for the Model S/X and Model 3/Y sub-platforms.^[1][2]
• Volkswagen Group MEB platform^[3]
• Hyundai E-GMP^[4]
• Geely SEA platform^[5]
• Rivian Skateboard^[6]
• Bollinger Skateboard, the chassis basis for Bollinger's vehicles, and a product sold to coachbuilders.^[7]
• XPeng (Smart Electric Platform Architecture).^[8]
• Foxconn , a platform developed by Foxconn for use by vehicle manufacturers and not itself.^[9]
• Gaussin Road truck skateboard^[10][11]
• REE Engineering^[12]

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