Ride and Handling Development – a peak inside the 2e chassis development

Engineering recently released this video of some of the ride and handling development that has been done on the 2e chassis. The testing is performed with our chassis/dynamics mule (pp8). In these tests, the vehicle development team takes the 2e through a course that includes large and small diameter circles, decreasing radius turns, a slalom, right and left hand sweeping turns, and straight line accelerations.

In this series, the top speed is held to below 60 mph. This is to simulate basic driving characteristics, not high performance driving, as we are focused on getting a feeling for how the vehicle responds to basic driving inputs. This allows the team to validate the chassis design and better understand typical road load characteristics.

Now in case you are wondering, this test vehicle was not equipped with the production power train, so overall performance is less than the production intent vehicle. We don’t know how you feel about that, but we tend to feel that a little more performance can only be a good thing.