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Turning the wheels of electric vehicles by 90 degrees

31.10.2021

The use of electric motors and batteries as part of the power plant of vehicles opens up great scope for creativity when choosing a layout for the creators of the latter. Hyundai Mobis is going to offer electric vehicle manufacturers a platform capable of turning wheels at an angle of 90 degrees.

Most of all, experiments with rear wheel steering in the segment of electric vehicles are known to General Motors Corporation. It has already announced a "crab mode" for electric vehicles of the Hummer family and the Chevrolet Silverado soplatform pickup truck. Elon Musk admitted some time ago that the Tesla Cybertruck pickup truck can also get rear wheel thrusters. For fairly large vehicles with a large wheelbase, this opens up new opportunities for maneuvering in urban and off-road conditions. You can both move diagonally and reduce the turning radius.

The South Korean company Hyundai Mobis announced the success in the development of units for electric vehicles, allowing you to create cars with the ability to turn the wheel 90 degrees. If we assume that all four wheels will have such a degree of freedom, then the electric car will be able to move to the side strictly perpendicular to the road and turn around on the spot, which will provide additional convenience when parking and maneuvering in the city.

Classic cars with a mechanical link between the wheel and the power train rarely provide a wheel angle of more than 30 degrees. By 2023, Hyundai Mobis promises to develop a ready-made platform with the function of turning the wheels 90 degrees. By 2025, it will equip it with the ability to automatically control. All this will allow the company's customers to create electric vehicles with an unusual layout and fantastic maneuverability. Considering that Hyundai, Genesis and Kia are the main customers of this component supplier, we can expect the corresponding models to appear in their product range.

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