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UK engineering firm’s new EV-R skateboard platform opens the door to low-volume sports cars

Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has applied its wealth of motorsport and supercar engineering experience to develop a new performance-oriented electric-vehicle platform aimed specifically at low-volume sports-car makers.

The composite skateboard-style architecture, called EV-R, is described as a lightweight, high-power and super-stiff basis for electric sports cars from niche brands that want to take advantage of the quicker and more cost-effective process of developing a car on an existing platform. 

EV-R is an alternative to the similarly conceived architecture WAE revealed in 2017.

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