CATL, the worlds largest battery manufacturer, is not waiting for customers to come knocking on its door to buy batteries for their electric models. It has created what it calls its CATL Integrated Intelligent Chassis, a skateboard design that incorporates all the bits and pieces needed to make a fully functional electric car
Source: CleanTechnica: Read The Article
PSR Analysis: What is interesting here is that CATL is now talking like a Tier One supplier and it’s easy to imagine many smaller companies that do not have the resources needed to create electric cars in-house might be tempted to let CATL do the heavy lifting so they can get competitive electrified products to market as soon as possible. All a customer would need to do is mount a body on top of the skateboard to have a finished product that could be sold to retail customers. This is a smart move and likely to move EVs along faster because they can make so many of these cheaply anywhere in the world. PSR
Guy Youngs is Forecast & Adoption Lead at Power Systems Research
