Electric Vehicles

The SWITCH Lab – Build an Electric Vehicle!

electric vehicle school

The Switch Lab is a classroom which challenges students to build road-worthy electric vehicles. It’s essentially and electric vehicle school. The course is structured around learning, building, testing, and then driving the finished Switch EV. It takes students through a complete project-based learning process.  Founded in 2013, the Switch Lab practices what they teach. The

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Rivian Tank Turn – Introducing the 360 Degree Spin!

Rivian shows off their “tank turn” capability on their all-electric R1T pickup truck. The quadmotor system allows independent control of each wheel. Very similar to a tank that can put one set of tracks into reverse, the other set forward, to help control turning, the Rivian R1T is able to perform a true on a

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Electric Adventure – Rivian R1T All Electric Pickup Truck

Meet the Rivian R1T electric adventure truck.  Rivian is a startup company that began in 2009.  However, they did a good job of staying under the radar in the automotive industry until recently.  A video of their upcoming pickup truck the R1T made it onto YouTube. Shortly thereafter, a debut at the L.A. Auto Show.

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