The U.S-based, China-backed SF Motors company is finally releasing news about their new two electric vehicle models! These will be the SF5 and the SF7 models. You can pre-order the SF5 by the end of 2018 and hopefully ride it around by 2019.
Who Are SF Motors?
SF Motors, Santa Clara-based with headquarters in Silicon Valley, is a company with a focus on creating the next generation of EV technology with their R&D centers in U.S., Germany, China, and Japan. They wholly control and operate production facilities in both the U.S and China. They plan to make 200,000 units of the new models a year.
SF motors is a strong believer in building critical components in-house. It has partnered with suppliers including Dürr, Siemens, AFT, Bosch, Infineon, Samsung SDI and LGC to create a proprietary powertrain that includes custom motors, gearboxes, and electronic controllers. The company has even developed its own proprietary battery cells and a patented liquid-cooled battery pack.
Its powerful four-motor system will deliver over 1,000 hp, launching its vehicles from 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds. The company’s motors, motor controllers, and gearboxes are very important to this performance, with peak power ranging from 100 to 400 kW. SF’s electronic controller, all developed in-house, enable instantaneous all-wheel-drive torque vectoring.
Their EV Vision
In 2016, the company acquired a factory near South Bend, Indiana and retooled it for EV production. That is where their passion for E-vehicles thrived.
“Our mission to transform human mobility- and perhaps our plant – through intelligent EVs,” said founder and CEO John Zhang. “To do this, we can’t follow the same path as every other EV company. We aim to be the company that shares integrated technology solutions and provides the manufacturing expertise to make more EVs a reality. We believe everyone wins with the wider adoption of EV technology.”
Thomas Fritz, the Chief Engineer added: “My team and I come from automotive backgrounds rich in tradition, and have designed and built cars for some of the most exclusive high-end US and European automakers. We believe what we’re designing today honors those roots, while enabling us to bring forward a new vision of mobility.”
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Original post: https://chargedevs.com/issues/issue-37-may-june-2018/
