Atieva Testing Awd Powertrain Inwards 900-Hp Electrical Van [Video]
One of the iv Chinese backed EV start-ups inwards Silicon Valley, Atieva was started yesteryear onetime executives from Tesla in addition to Oracle inwards tardily 2007.
As Reuters reports, Atieva is headed yesteryear Bernard Tse, an ex-Tesla Vice President in addition to board member, every bit good every bit Peter Rawlinson, the onetime main engineer of the Tesla Model S. They don't convey a mill yet, but they produce convey a van nicknamed Edna.
With its commencement automobile nevertheless at to the lowest degree 2 years away from production, Atieva is using a Mercedes-Benz Vito commercial van to exam the drivetrain: a duad of high-output electrical motors, a 87 kWh lithium-ion battery pack, inverters, gearboxes in addition to dual motor controller.
Rawlinson, who piece at Tesla led applied scientific discipline of the Model due south sedan (which was originally based on a Mercedes-Benz CLS), said Atieva's "secret sauce" is the software tying all that hardware together to deliver a combined 900 horsepower to the 2,200 kg all-wheel-drive van. With a dual motor powertrain the fellowship is clearly non testing full-spec torque vectoring (which requires 4x motors).
The drivetrain propels the van from cipher to sixty mph inwards only 3.1 seconds, a fraction slower than the fastest Tesla Model S. Atieva’s 0-60 acceleration target for its 2018 sedan is 2.7 seconds.
The Atieva sedan, existence developed nether the code cite Project Cosmos, looks similar a futuristic descendent of the Audi A7. Its headlamps are ultra-thin, amongst thousands of insect-inspired micro lenses. Its dashboard has a three-piece reconfigurable digital display that tin last controlled yesteryear vocalisation or touch.
Atieva has raised $131 1000000 from investors including Mitsui & Co Ltd, the Japanese trading giant, in addition to Venrock, a Silicon Valley firm working capital alphabetic lineament trace of piece of job solid connected amongst the Rockefeller theatre unit of measurement that in i lawsuit funded Intel in addition to Apple. Two of Atieva’s biggest shareholders are Chinese: State-owned Beijing Auto in addition to a subsidiary of publicly traded LeEco, an meshing fellowship that has every bit good declared it intends to offering an electrical car. LeEco is controlled yesteryear Chinese tech entrepreneur Jia Yueting.
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