“We are delighted to join forces with Italdesign on this exciting and timely joint collaboration,” said Paul McNamara, Technical Director at WAE. “Demand for high performance electric vehicles is continuing to show considerable growth but to date, there has not been a complete EV production solution. This unique relationship brings together state-of-the-art EV rolling chassis technology with one of the world’s leaders in vehicle body engineering.”
Antonio Casu, CTO at Italdesign, said, “We are extremely glad and thankful of the chance to cooperate with Williams Advanced Engineering. With 53 years of experience in design and engineering development, our role in the partnership will be to advance the rolling chassis developed by WAE to the complete platform and shape it according to the vehicle body style, architecture and contents defined with customers. Over the past five decades we have developed skills and experiences in turnkey projects, meeting our customers’ needs, whether international OEMs or newborn start-ups.”
The new platform is capable of supporting production runs up to 10,000 units, 500 of which could be manufactured by Italdesign at its facilities.
