Canoo Technologies Inc.

William J Rohr

Alexi Charbonneau

Daniel George McCarron

Naesung Lyu

Phillip John Weicker

Charles Garmel

Sohel Merchant

Chung Shen Ang

Felix Haeusler

Jeffrey Walsh

John Mason

Nathaniel Risler Rosso

Mahesh Chinchani

Mayurkumar Ashokbhal Agrawal

Aniruddha Ranade

Morteza Kiani

Yufeng Long

Salman Khan

Mayurkumar Ashokbhai Agrawal

Daniel George Mccarron

Kurtis Ray Horner

Vidyadhar Katkar

Balasaheb Budhekar

Sangjoon Han

Digvijay Odhekar

Mahesh Suresh Chinchani

A support plate and reinforcement member may be mounted within a hollow side sill between a rocker and crossmembers for a vehicle framework. The support plate may include flanges along either edge and a straight, projecting face between the flanges. The reinforcement member, mounted on the support plate proximate to an outer surface of the side sill, may include flanges along either edge and a wavy projecting face between the flanges. Contact portions of the projecting face for the reinforcement member may contact an interior of the side sill at regions aligned with where the side sill mounts to the crossmembers, with intervening portions of the projecting face, in areas adjacent energy absorbing crush cans, extending less far from the flanges. The intervening portions may also be laterally offset from the contact portions, to provide larger weld areas.

Method to reduced lateral deflection of longitudinal members in side impact

A vehicle platform with a variety of impact safety features including front and rear impact features as well as side impact features designed to protect the passenger compartment as well as the battery compartment and vehicle chassis components. Some features may include crumple zone components, deflectors and modular energy absorption units.

Impact features

Vehicle platforms, and systems, subsystems, and components thereof are described. A self-contained vehicle platform or chassis incorporating substantially all of the functional systems, subsystems and components (e.g., mechanical, electrical, structural, etc.) necessary for an operative vehicle. Functional components may include at least energy storage/conversion, propulsion, suspension and wheels, steering, crash protection, and braking systems. Functional components are standardized such that vehicle platforms may be interconnected with a variety of vehicle body designs (also referred to in the art as 'top hats') with minimal or no modification to the functional linkages (e.g., mechanical, structural, electrical, etc.) therebetween. Configurations of functional components are incorporated within the vehicle platform such that there is minimal or no physical overlap between the functional components and the area defined by the vehicle body. Specific functional components of such vehicle platforms, and the relative placement of the various functional components, to allow for implementation of a self-contained vehicle platform are also provided.

Electric vehicle platform

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William J Rohr