Mahindra electric three things to be very excited about one the vehicles are launching on july 22
second these are designed in uk and uk is world famous for its vehicle design you would recall that
even ola has set up a headquartered in uk so that they are able to design their cars from there and third
thing so if you talk about the tata cars right now which is nexon ev and the tigorivi both of these cars
are actually an ice vehicle.
which has been converted into an electric vehicle when that happens what the manufacturer does is
okay they take out the engine the fuel tank goes
and all the 100 million plus.
three parts that an ice vehicle has and which an electric does not require goes out and then the ev
components which are motor battery controllers all these are fit in in wherever space available that is
not an efficient way to go about designing an ev now electric vehicles have a standard architecture of
their own which is called a skateboard architecture it looks like a skateboard where you have a
floorboard in the floorboard you've gotthe battery pack the cells integrated in the front part you have
the motor integrated on the four corners are your wheels and then you have your suspension and your
controller and your steeringpowertrain brakes everything is integrated in this architecture which is the
skateboard architecture now the biggest advantage of a skateboard architecture is that it is scalable
which means once you have a once you have your skateboard architecture you can fit in cells of
different sizes or different quantities a motor of different power as per your need and you can have
from the same architecture you can very quickly design vehicles belonging to entirely different
segments you can have a hatchback you can have a compact suv you can design apremium suv all
these vehicles all these segments will have their own motor capacity willhave their own driving range
all of that can be done just from having a simple template which is the skateboard architecture now
contrast that with a nexon ev or a tigor dv you will see thatin a tight review the boot space is occupied
by the spare wheel why is the spare wheel in the boot space because the spare wheel because in place
of the spare wheel they have put in the batterythey did not have to do that in nexon eve they had
enough space under the floorboard but they didn't have enough space in tigarev which means they had
to engineer both these vehicles differently they had to come up with solutions to fit in the ev related
components.
That is out of the equation when you're talking about a skateboard architecture you fit in your
motor and your battery pack and your cells and you have different just by the virtue of having different
designs you will have different vehicles from different segments so having an electricvehicle specific
architecture does four things number one it brings down the cost number two it brings down the
complexity number three it saves a lot of space you get a lot of leg room you get a lot of boot space
and fourth thing is the battery pack is present in the floorboard itself which brings down the center of
gravity of the vehicle therefore making it more stable and more fun to ride now tata is of course
exploring the same thing you would have heard about the tata's specific eevee specific division where
they're talking about the sigma architecture and thenthey're talking about the skateboard architecture all
of that is happening later meanwhile mahindra is already all set with its uh born electric architecture.
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