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CATL, the world’s largest battery manufacturer, is not waiting for customers to come knocking on its door to buy batteries for their electric models. Oh, no. 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. 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 sounds a lot like what Canoo is doing. It makes a skateboard that contains all the batteries, motors, suspension, and brakes, then mounts a variety of bodies — which it calls top hats — on top of the skateboard. The top hats are configurable to meet the needs of a variety of customers, from minivan, to…
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