Drive Unit / Motor supplier appears as Cascadia Motion (BorgWarner) in Slate prototype video

[cadblu]

actually, it looks to be from SA test vehicle:

...from this post:
https://www.slateforums.com/forum/t...ety-suspension-underbody-undercarriage.12646/

The dead giveaways are the roll bar, the door cut-out shape and the taillight. So... that Cascadia Motion component is indeed from a Slate tester.

It seems that some people just land the best jobs. Like driving that test vehicle. My luck, I’ll end up as the test dummy:

 

[AZFox]

actually, it looks to be from SA test vehicle:

Something's a bit "off" about the rear tire in the photo.

 

[GreatLakes]

Something's a bit "off" about the rear tire in the photo.

I don't see what you mean. That you don't see the bottom few inches of the tire?

I just thought it was a dirt track, and that wheel is running in a rut.
Are the sticks down to the axle measuring up-down motion of the wheel, for testing suspension?

 

[AZFox]

I don't see what you mean. That you don't see the bottom few inches of the tire?

Yes. The front tire is on the surface and a couple of inches of the rear tire are visually missing and sunken into the painterly road surface.

 

[MiketheCarGeek]

The photo is definitely of the Test Mule Vehicle, not the production prototypes.

Cascadia Motion is not a high volume manufacturer of Electric Motors. Most of what I've seen them do are niche or low-volume commercial vehicles. Not to say they couldn't ramp up, but they were likely selected as an off-the-shelf option to get the early mule trucks running.

 

[AKrietzer]

Did you notice in the specifications that it is water-cooled, and has limited slip? I kind of figured it would be air cooled, not water cooled. Of course this is just a prototype. On more expensive cars, do they use this while it is being driven to warm the batteries in cold weather? I understand the batteries don't do as good in cold weather. I think Lucid batteries are heated with a fluid.

 

[evtruth]

Did you notice in the specifications that it is water-cooled, and has limited slip? I kind of figured it would be air cooled, not water cooled. Of course this is just a prototype. On more expensive cars, do they use this while it is being driven to warm the batteries in cold weather? I understand the batteries don't do as good in cold weather. I think Lucid batteries are heated with a fluid.

Water cooled is good, historically air cooled batteries tend to not perform well.

 

[cadblu]

Did you notice in the specifications that it is water-cooled, and has limited slip? I kind of figured it would be air cooled, not water cooled. Of course this is just a prototype. On more expensive cars, do they use this while it is being driven to warm the batteries in cold weather? I understand the batteries don't do as good in cold weather. I think Lucid batteries are heated with a fluid.

Correct, using Tesla as an example, the batteries are heated with liquid coolant, particularly when preconditioning is invoked for charging.

 

[John5964]

Did you notice in the specifications that it is water-cooled, and has limited slip? I kind of figured it would be air cooled, not water cooled. Of course this is just a prototype. On more expensive cars, do they use this while it is being driven to warm the batteries in cold weather? I understand the batteries don't do as good in cold weather. I think Lucid batteries are heated with a fluid.

Limited Slip stays I hope. It would be better than Traction Control for the surfaces I will be driving on.

 

[JoeUser]

My company work with Cascadia motors. They are fantastic, but... that motor/inverter would be easily $15k+ off-the-shelf. Even with a significant volume discount I don't think it would come close to the price point slate needs.

Also it is definitely not a Cascadia motor installed in the more complete prototypes.

If that is even actually a shot from Slate, it's likely they were just using Cascadia for early prototypes.

 

[Trace26]

Seeing as the Cascadia motors were used for the prototypes , it would be interesting to see if one could be swapped in to a production slate. We'll have to see.