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Was invited to come check out Volkwagen’s EV platform while I’m here in Germany. They went through all the technicals on their current platforms and I learned some information about their upcoming ID family as well before I got to take one of their cars out on the autobahn and drive it to its top speed! Their offices seemed super cool and they even had a bunch of Nerf guns lying around.
Some progress the past couple weeks. We received our Tesla motor and installed an updated inverter drive board. We tested the board to verify all the functions are working correctly and will be attempting to run the motor on a stand this week with the help of EVWest. What we need next are the batteries to power our prototype. EVWest says they just got a shipment of new batteries so we are going up tomorrow to see if we can work out a deal. There are many hurdles we have yet to overcome but we are optimistic about our future. We have been trying to establish a strategic partnership between our company and Volkswagen so that, in the future, we could develop conversions based on their upcoming EV platform.
This is what I have been talking with VW about. Similar to what Franz was talking about in my sc thread:
The modular design allows for the composite upper body to be detached from the MEB chassis, which VW argues will open up a “world of possibilities for third-party manufacturers, as the original Meyers Manx kit did for the first buggies.” https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/vws-futuristic-all-electric-dune-buggy-embraces-its-1960s-roots/
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