The idea of the self-contained EV skateboard chassis has become so alluring that startups, suppliers and even automakers are marketing them as plug-and-play solutions on which customers can simply add ...

The way Chris Borroni-Bird sees it, the skateboard chassis—the architecture that underpins most of today's battery-electric vehicles—would have been invented by someone else if General Motors hadn't ...

The placement of the battery introduces new challenges for engineers, such as packaging, structural reinforcement and crash management. Also, heavy battery packs must be offset with lighter and ...

Skateboard platforms are becoming a common go-to for startup electric vehicle makers, as they’re essentially self-contained—packaging most of the core mechanical and propulsion components together in ...

Israeli technology firm REE Automotive wants to put the skateboard back into the skateboard EV chassis. You’ve probably heard the term. It describes the multi-use battery-electric platforms from EV ...

Precisely one year ago, California startup canoo announced the canoo “loft of wheels,” a new EV to the market that would be available only on a subscription basis. The world was not exactly sold on ...

California's Canoo released a video Thursday showing its bare skateboard platform being driven around like a giant go-kart. The EV startup also released more details of its platform and powertrain in ...

California startup Canoo is building electric cars with a skateboard platform that contains all mechanical components within the chassis. This packaging helps free up more passenger space—Canoo ...

Imagine how much faster and easier it would be to produce electric cars if you didn't have to design or build the chassis and drivetrain. That's the idea behind so-called "skateboard chassis," such as ...

When Canoo presented its vision of subscription-based electric vehicles a year ago, its symmetrical, window-wrapped EV pod won our hearts as one of the cooler electric people-pushers on the horizon.

I personally am not into skateboards. It may have to do with the fact that I absolutely cannot ride one without serious risk to my bodily integrity. But even if these things are not made for me (and ...