ACE EV won $5 million in federal government funding<\/a> for an energy management trial to start early next year using the X1 Transformer as its test platform.<\/p>Today, McGarvie said ACE intends to put X1 Transformer trial vehicles on the road in November, \u201cwith a view to beginning full-scale systems testing in April next year\u201d.<\/p>
Previously, ACE said it would launch two models in October 2021 \u2013 the Cargo light commercial and the Yewt ute \u2013 followed by the Urban passenger car in 2022, with prices starting from under $40,000.<\/p>
Established in Queensland in 2016 but now based in Adelaide, ACE EV (which stands for Australian Clean Energy Electric Vehicle) commissioned companies in Germany and Taiwan to design its vehicles.<\/p>
Based around a modular carbon-fibre chassis that\u2019s claimed to take only 18 hours to assemble, they will be built in Adelaide by a contractor, Aldom Electric Vehicle Manufacturing.<\/p>
ACE EV previously told carsales it hoped to eventually build up to 20,000 vehicles annually and export a significant number to right-hand drive markets like Japan and the UK.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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> Read the full article hereACE EV Group\u2019s X1 Transformer modular platform to underpin seven different commercial EVsAustralian electric light commercial vehicle start-up ACE EV Group has revealed the first of seven battery-powered models it plans to build in Adelaide from next year. No name or pricing has yet been announced for the long-wheelbase high-roof […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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