GM rival Stellantis has introduced the new STLA Large Platform designed for new all-electric vehicles, underpinning car, crossover, and SUV vehicle types in the D and E segments, and serving both high-performance and off-road driving. Vehicles built on the STLA Large platform will be produced and sold globally, with plans for eight vehicle launches across five different brands by 2026, including Dodge, Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, and Maserati. Brand-specific announcements are expected sometime this year.
Stellantis says the platform incorporates a high degree of flexibility to enable greater vehicle diversity thanks to a base set of components and cost-efficient manufacturing processes. The announcement of the new STLA Large architecture follows the announcement of the company’s STLA Medium platform last July.
The STLA Large platform features an energy capacity of 118 kWh, as well as charging up to 4.5 kWh per minute and a claimed acceleration performance of 0-to-60 mph in the two-second range. The platform also includes 400-volt and 800-volt architectures, as well as flexibility to incorporate hybrid and internal-combustion powertrains.
“The platform’s inherent flexibility enables engineers and designers to adjust the wheelbase, overall length, overall width and height, and ground clearance,” Stellantis says. Adjustments can also be made to dimensions like the front spindle to driver foot, front and rear overhang, and passenger compartment floor.
Metrics include an overall length range of 187.6 to 201.8 inches, an overall width range of 74.7 inches to 79.9 inches, a wheelbase range of 113 inches to 121.1 inches, and a ground clearance range of 5.5 inches to 11.3 inches. The maximum tire diameter is set at 32.6 inches.
The architecture will mount three-in-one electric drive modules that incorporate the motor, power inverter, and gear reduction, with front-wheel-drive, rear-wheel-drive, and all-wheel-drive layouts all accommodated.
The new STLA Large platform is one of four global platforms (Small, Medium, Large, and Frame) the automaker has planned in support of its Dare Forward 2030 strategy, aiming for a significant BEV sales mix in the U.S. and Canada by the 2030 calendar year. Stellantis is aiming to offer 48 BEVs by this year, and hopes to achieve carbon neutrality across its operations by the 2038 timeframe.
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These new platforms are also to be used on new ICE vehicles. They are Italian (what else?) and because of that I’m probably not interested.
Yeah, that’s obviously an engine in that “all electric” chassis.
I’m heading over to Stellantis Authority to read GM articles
Waste of time !
This is a copy of tbe GM Skateboard that everyone else has copied, especially Tesla.
Monkey see, monkey do!
Maybe Stellantis can fix the Blazer EV so that Chevy can sell them again.. While they are at it, make LYRIQ batteries more reliable.
Only Stellantis designed their platform to offer customers choice of EV, hybrid, or ICE powertrains.
You missed the most important point about powertrain flexibility for this platform. That affords them major advantages when it comes to meeting shifting customer demand.
And no gm didn’t invent the skateboard EV concept. Not even close.
GM did in 2009. Do a search and read for yourself. You cannot deny this truth!
Depends on your definition of invented I suppose.
GM often gets credit because they were the first to show a formal skateboard concept at auto shows that came out of the GM Research Labs as far back as the early 2000’s. I remember the concept well.
The truth is there have been ICE to EV conversion vehicles with batteries on pan type chassis’s floating around since the 70’s. Probably even before that. Converted VW Beetles being among them. The chassis of which did not look a whole lot different than the “skateboard” chassis of today just with series lead acid batteries on the pan instead of integrated Li-Ion batteries forming the pan. I had a chance to drive one in CA the middle 80’s…with a whopping 45 mile range.
One could argue the Lunar Rover EV “sled” from built by Boeing in the early 70’s was a skateboard. Body not included of course.
That’s not to take away from Larry Burns (great guy btw) and his team over at the Research Labs. Brilliant guys that were trying to push radical transportation concepts in company mortibund by tradition and bureaucracy.
And meanwhile GM continues to stumble!
Meanwhile GM has cars on the road with their ground up designed EV platform.
Not many!
Did not mention where the batteries will be coming from. Big huge article, you would think they would mention when, where, who, how,something on the most important part of these electric autos.
Very interesting platform. A huge amount of flexibility built into it both dimensionally and from a propulsion perspective. If they can produce it in volume and with quality they’ll have a significant advantage over manufactures that are doing the “either or approach” (either ICE platforms or EV platforms…ie. gm).
It’s not just this platform either. To accomplish this kind of flexibility, their entire manufacturing footprint (less BOF applications) would need to be changed to provide for this type of component set flexibility. Some heavy investment for that.
I’ll be interested to see if Stellantis can pull it off successfully.
I’d be happy if some of the large sedans were both New Yorker and Imperial. Poor Chrysler is currently almost worse off than Lincoln. At least Chrysler had the 300 sedan and is thinking about bringing it back. Lincoln is hopeless with nothing we want or will want in the future unless stockholders take over and make changes.