Delta Motorsport's "skateboard" chassis aids electric vehicle development

The Silverstone-based electric vehicle developer launched its product to assist other organisations in developing different vehicle types at the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) Cenex exhibition at the Millbrook proving ground in Bedfordshire yesterday (4th September).

The product will help automotive OEMs to accelerate the process of developing a vehicle, Delta says, and is fully scalable in terms of the size of the vehicle and production volume, although in the latter case a manufacturing partner will need to be identified.

"It can be anything from a small delivery van or a street sweeping vehicle up to a bus or truck," Adriaan Gerber, director of consultancy Gerber Engineering and a contributor to the project told The Engineer at LCV Cenex. "The customer would just have to tell Delta what type of vehicle they are working on, and the skateboard would be designed and produced with the appropriate wheelbase." Gerber, an expert in aluminium bonding, also worked on the Lightyear One prototype solar electric vehicle launched earlier this year.