REE Automotive P7-B

2022: Electric Truck Release

In mid-August 2022, the Israeli company REE Automotive introduced a P7-B electric truck equipped with REEcorner all-wheel drive. The peculiarities of transport are that the steering wheel here is not directly connected to the wheels and control is transmitted via wires.

REE Automotive P7-B can offer a decent carrying capacity of up to 2 tons, and the cargo compartment itself is large. Each REE chassis starts with a skateboard-like flat battery pack built into a sturdy structural housing. But where other EVs place engines, steering systems and other functional chassis components throughout the vehicle, REE packs it all into screwable corner modules that are installed at the user's request. This is a fully wired system, everything is electronically transmitted to corner modules, so the REE chassis essentially does not know or care about whether instructions come from a human driver or autonomous system.

Electric truck with rear wheels turning released

As the P7-B demonstrates, installing the steering system on the rear wheels is as easy as installing on the front wheels. Automakers can list the desired performance of the transmission, suspension, brakes, engine torque and performance, both ready-made and custom-made from REE's Tier 1 delivery partners, and then proceed to design the body and interior they want to install on top.

In this case, it is a 400kW (536 hp) all-wheel drive truck. The battery charge is enough for 241 km of mileage, and the maximum speed is 120 km/h. At the same time, the space for its placement is 23 cubic meters. m, and the minimum height of the cargo floor is 58 cm. The turning radius is only 6 m, since it is equipped with steering systems in the rear corner modules in the same way as in the front ones. As with all cars on the REE platform, if something in the transmission fails, the van should not remain on the road.

P7-B is the second version of the delivery van, created after customer feedback on a prototype with a Proxima body, which users saw in July 2022. In this case, REE went further and built the body on its own, but the company is working hard to get it into production in both the UK and the US, for fleet customers.^[1]

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