Revo Powertrains
Revo Powertrains is an electric vehicle powertrain company based in Alameda, California.[1] Created by Tesla co-founder Ian Wright.
Located in Alameda County, California by Wrightspeed, Inc. (a Delaware corporation).
Products
The Wrightspeed Route is a plug and play repower kit for commercial trucks. It is a high-power medium-duty vehicle powertrain that uses electric drive with an onboard power station for efficiency and range and is a series hybrid retrofit kit for trucks. The kit includes controls, 200 kW inverter, electric motors, gear box with clutch-less shifting, battery pack, battery management system, and LCD user interface.
Medium-duty trucks in the US are defined as vehicles with gross vehicle weights of 4,500–11,800 kg (10,001–26,000 lb).
Founder Ian Wright discusses motivations for building truck powertrains in a TedX Talk and Unfiltered interview.
See also
- Battery electric vehicle
- Electric truck
- Fleet operator
- Garbage truck
- Isuzu NPR
- Tesla Motors
- Vehicle manufacturer
- Wrightspeed X1, a one-off Ariel Atom heavily modified to use an all-electric powertrain, made by Wrightspeed.
References
- "About Us". www.revopowertrains.com. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- From Wrightspeed, the jet-powered delivery truck, BBC.
- New Zealand Adopts Wrightspeed Jet And Battery Power For Buses, Forbes 2016-04-22, viewed 2016-05-22
