F1 champ Williams made a cool new carbon platform for electric cars

Williams Advanced Engineering

Other than Ferrari, no Formula 1 team has won more World Constructor Championships than Frank Williams' eponymous organization. In fact, it's responsible for a car that many agree was the most technologically advanced F1 racer ever to turn a wheel, the active suspension FW14B. Success at the track has been hard to come by in recent years-Williams last won a race in 2012-but designing and building race cars isn't the only thing that happens at its base in Oxfordshire, England. Williams Advanced Engineering, a sister business to the F1 team, has just revealed a rather clever new electric vehicle platform.

The new platform is called the FW-EVX, and it's an integrated design that includes the batteries and their associated cooling, suspension for up to four motors, and crash structures in a scalable design that could be used in midsize or larger electric vehicles. What makes the FW-EVX particularly interesting is that it's extremely lightweight, thanks to extensive use of carbon fiber, not just structurally but also in the suspension.

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