Sure, you could always buy a
prefab skateboard from Element or Zero, but the cool kids pick their ideal size
deck and then select custom trucks and wheels to suit. Tel-Aviv-based REE
Automotive reckons it should be just as easy to build your electric mobility as
a service (MaaS) shuttle or delivery van. At CES 2021, the company showed off
its electric skateboard chassis concept comprised of its patented REEboards and
REEcorners.
REEboards—Backbone
Of The Electric Skateboard Chassis
REEboards
are way larger but only slightly more complicated than the bent plywood of an
analog skateboard. In addition to providing the structural basis for the
finished vehicle, the board houses a battery sized for its intended duty cycle,
along with most power electronics and the wiring needed to distribute the
power, as well as the steer-, brake-, and accelerate-by-wire commands, to the
corners.
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