Global and China Skateboard Chassis Industry Report, 2024-2025

Skateboard chassis research: already used in 8 production models, and larger-scale production expected beyond 2025

Global and China Skateboard Chassis Industry Report, 2024-2025 released by ResearchInChina combs through and summarizes the status quo, installation, and suppliers’ product layout of skateboard chassis, and also predicts its future development trends. This article will interpret the status quo of the industry from three perspectives: OEMs, suppliers, and the capital market.

I. Skateboard chassis fades in overseas markets, while it begins to come to the fore in China.

1. As giants Arrival and Canoo exit, skateboard chassis cools down in overseas markets.

In January 2024, Arrival, a prominent British skateboard chassis player, received a delisting notice from the NASDAQ Stock Market. In February 2024, the company filed for bankruptcy protection and eventually sold its assets to another startup, Canoo. Yet Canoo’s car making dreams also came to an abrupt end this year. As the global pioneer of the model of making cars with skateboard chassis, Canoo launched pickups, sedans, and LDVs for freight, and successfully delivered products to renowned institutions such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US Department of Defense, and the US Postal Service. It signed cooperation agreements with companies like Walmart. However, on January 17, 2025, Canoo announced that it had filed for bankruptcy protection and ceased operations immediately.

The exits of Arrival and Canoo, two skateboard chassis OEM giants, not only signify the end of their car making dreams but also indicate the development of skateboard chassis has a setback in the Western market.

Although skateboard chassis has cooled in overseas markets, several Chinese OEMs are still working to deploy skateboard chassis technology. They not only have had multiple production models equipped with skateboard chassis technology, but unveiled several new models featuring this technology in 2024.

2. Multiple Chinese OEMs deploy skateboard chassis technology, small-scale production for light commercial vehicles expected during 2025-2026.

According to incomplete statistics, about 14 models featuring skateboard chassis technology debuted in 2024, mainly light commercial vehicles planned for mass production during 2025-2026. In the passenger car segment, the model NIO S Liezhuang CIIC800V is currently planned to adopt skateboard chassis technology.

In China, 8 production models have already adopted skateboard chassis technology, of which most are light commercial vehicles such as logistics vehicle, light bus, and light truck, and a few are heavy trucks and passenger cars. Below are two application cases:

1) Qingling EV M600, a battery electric light truck launched in June 2023, utilizes skateboard chassis, a technology that integrates the three core components—battery, motor, and electronic control system—along with brake-by-wire, steering, and thermal management systems into three major domains on the chassis. This significantly reduces redundancy, breaks through existing technical boundaries, and decouples hardware and software by advanced functional modules such as power, drive, control, cockpit, and upper structure, ultimately creating a modular and universal chassis platform architecture.

2) In April 2024, Geely Farizon officially rolled out SuperVAN. The new vehicle is built on the GXA-M Drive-by-wire Intelligent Architecture, enabling L4 and higher levels of autonomous driving to follow future development trends in autonomous driving. Thanks to the modular technology of the drive-by-wire intelligent architecture, the body and chassis are completely decoupled, allowing for flexible adjustments in wheelbase, front overhang, and rear overhang, and free combinations of power, braking, suspension, and steering systems. As a result, users can design the body freely as they need, and flexibly choose vehicle configurations. Farizon SuperVAN is positioned as a battery electric light commercial vehicle, with the X-VAN model featuring high customization and 10kW power supply capability for the upper structure, bringing the superiority of skateboard platform into full play.

II. 2023 to Early 2025: 7 suppliers secured 15 funding rounds, raising over RMB1.6 billion.

In addition to OEMs which vigorously make layout, the capital market has also shown strong enthusiasm, with high confidence in skateboard chassis:
Skateboard chassis technology solution suppliers making layout in low-speed autonomous vehicles: both TEEMO Technology and ECAR Tech closed three funding rounds between 2023 and 2025, and PIX Moving closed its B1 funding round in December 2024.
Skateboard chassis technology solution suppliers making layout in commercial vehicles: SuperPanther and HLONG Technology closed a total of four funding rounds between 2024 and 2025, three of which were secured by SuperPanther.
U Power, which covers passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and low-speed autonomous vehicles, closed two funding rounds between 2023 and 2024.
ITBOX, oriented to business mobility and creating exclusive models for taxi, ride-hailing, special vehicle, and rental markets, closed two funding rounds in 2023.

The train of financing events highlights the capital market’s great attention to and support for the skateboard chassis segment. On one hand, the highly integrated and modular design of skateboard chassis can effectively shorten R&D cycles and reduce costs for automakers, aligning with the current trend towards intelligence and electrification in the automotive industry. On the other hand, its application potential in logistics, sanitation, public transport, and other fields is immense, making it a promising market. The influx of capital will further drive innovation and iteration in skateboard chassis technology, and accelerate commercialization of related companies, giving a big boost to the entire industry.

While skateboard chassis face challenges in overseas markets, it thrives in China. The reasons for this contrast include low penetration of new energy vehicles, insufficient policy support, and high supply chain costs overseas. The boom in China is credited to policy support, a mature supply chain, capital favor, and rapid technological iteration. Below is a comparative analysis table showing why skateboard chassis is hard to promote overseas but develop rapidly in China:

3. Skateboard chassis solution suppliers target end scenarios, with multiple models in operation.

Skateboard chassis technology suppliers such as REE, PIX Moving, TEEMO Technology, ECAR Tech, and Seektop Automobile primarily apply their products to last-mile scenarios, including autonomous retail vehicles, autonomous cleaning robots, and autonomous logistics vehicles. Take PIX Moving and TEEMO Technology as examples:

In December 2024, PIX Moving, TIS, and the Hot Okinawa Research Institute formed a partnership. In this collaboration, TIS is responsible for introduction and planning, PIX Moving provides autonomous vehicles and technology, the Hot Okinawa Research Institute operates autonomous retail services, and Kanucha Resort (a resort in Nago City, Okinawa) provides application scenarios. PIX’s autonomous retail vehicle Robo-Shop (eagle wing door version) has been put into operation in Okinawa, Japan, offering innovative unmanned mobile retail services to tourists. It can be intelligently dispatched according to tourist flow, automatically moving to crowded areas to sell snacks, beverages, and other goods, and supporting cashless payments.

TEEMO Technology’s AutoBots-W7 mid-size intelligent skateboard chassis is designed for medium- and low-speed autonomous MPVs which are applicable to scenarios such as urban and campus delivery, unmanned logistics, factory logistics, and urban and rural sanitation. Its commercially produced skateboard chassis, AutoBots-W7, has been successfully installed on Zelos (Suzhou) Technology’s urban autonomous distribution vehicles. Currently, Zelos has achieved large-scale deployment in over 20 provinces in China and more than 100 cities globally, covering scenarios like fresh food delivery, laundry delivery, cold chain distribution, and express delivery. Zelos finds broad application in express delivery, and partners with multiple express companies such as SF Express, China Post, YTO Express, ZTO Express, and STO Express.

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1 Overview of Skateboard Chassis Industry
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Related Defini
1.1 Definition of Skateboard Ch
1.2 Development History of Skateboard Ch
1.3 Comparison of Skateboard Chassis with Traditional Chassis and Chassis-by
1.4 Composition of Skateboard Cha
1.5 Main Structural Features of Skateboard Ch
1.6 Technologies Involved in Skateboard Cha
1.6.1 Q&A 1: Relationship Between Skateboard Chassis and Body-on-f
1.6.2 Q&A 2: Is CTC Technology A Standard Feature of Skateboard Cha
1.6.3 Q&A 3: Relationship Between Skateboard Chassis and Integrated Die Cas
1.6.4 Q&A 4: Relationship Between Skateboard Chassis and Hub Mo
1.6.5 Q&A 5: Application of X-by-wire Technology in Skateboard Cha
1.6.6 Q&A 6: Application of Skateboard Chassis EEA and Software Architec
1.7 Skateboard Chassis Patent La
1.8 Comparison of Skateboard Chassis with Platforms and Architec
1.9 Advantages of Skateboard Chassis Pro
1.10 Challenges and Difficulties in Realizing Skateboard Ch
1.11 Business, R&D, Production, and Profit Models of Skateboard Ch
1.12 Types of Skateboard Chassis Pl
1.13 Financing of Skateboard Chassis Players in Recent
1.14 Types of Skateboard Chassis Cust
1.15 Skateboard Chassis Industry
1.16 Development Opportunities for Skateboard Ch
1.17 Challenges and Trends in Future Application Scenarios of Skateboard Ch
1.18 Summary of Skateboard Chassis Layout of
1.19 Summary of Skateboard Chassis Layout of Supp
2 Skateboard Chassis Technology Layout of OEMs
2.1 R
Profile and Financing Hi
Skateboard Chassis Application
R1T Skateboard Chassis Vehicle Archite
R1T Skateboard Chassis Stru
R1T Electronic and Electrical Archite
R1T Chassis Archite
R1T Suspension S
R1T Braking S
R1T Steering S
R1T Electric Drive S
R1T Battery Stru
Overview of Supply C
2.2
Profile and Pro
Skateboard Ch
Battery Structure of Skateboard Ch
Steering and Suspension Systems of Skateboard Ch
2.3 F
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
2.4 King
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Kunlun Smart Electric/Electronic Architecture (
Kunlun SEA Application Ca
Kunlun SEA Application C
Kunlun SEA Application C
Skateboard Chassis Cooperation
2.5 Sany Heavy Ind
Intelligent Chassis Solution for Special Veh
Expandable Vehicle Models with Intelligent Ch
Skateboard Chassis Application
2.6 FAW Ji
Intelligent Skateboard Chassis Solution for Commercial Veh
Skateboard Chassis Cooperation
2.7 Dongfeng
M-Hero Off-Road Architecture (MORA) Solut
M-Hero Off-Road Architecture (MORA) Application
Skateboard Chassis Solutions: 1st Gener
Skateboard Chassis Solutions: 2nd Gener
2nd-Generation Skateboard Chassis Application
2.8 Dongfeng Liuzhou
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Solut
2.9 Far
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GXA-M Drive-by-wire Intelligent Archite
GXA-M Drive-by-wire Intelligent Architecture Application
2.10 Changan Kai
Commercial Vehicle K01 Archite
Intelligent Chassis Techn
Skateboard Chassis Application
Latest Financ
2.11 MiracoM
Intelligent Chassis Solu
Intelligent Chassis Solut
Intelligent Chassis Solut
Intelligent Chassis Applied Vehi
Intelligent Chassis Applied Vehi
Intelligent Chassis Applied Vehic
Intelligent Chassis Applied Vehicle Cooperation and Delivery C
2.12 Qingling M
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Cooperation
2.13 Gecko M
Profile and Development Hi
Highlights of Advanced Digital Chassis Techn
Advanced Digital Chassis Sol
CTC Implementation Ro
Collaborative Development of Skateboard Pla
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
2.14 Neta
Skateboard Chassis Sol
Skateboard Chassis Application
2.15 JAC Group’s Skateboard Chassis Cooperation
2.16 BAIC’s Skateboard Chassis Cooperation Case and Latest Fun
2.17 Avatr’s Skateboard Chassis Cooperation Case and Latest Fu
2.18 Weiqiao’s New Energy Commercial Vehicle Skateboard Chassis Sol
2.19 Neomor’s Skateboard Chassis Cooperation
3 Chinese and Foreign Skateboard Chassis Suppliers
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Chassis Architecture Sol
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application F
3.2
Skateboard Chassis Layout of Subsidi
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Features and Technological Innovations of CATL Integrated Intelligent Chassis (CIIC) of CATL (Shanghai) Intelligent Techn
CATL (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology’s CIIC and CIIC-Toolkits Solution
CATL (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology’s CIIC Product Matrix and Application Scen
CATL (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology’s CIIC Redundant Architecture D
CATL (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology’s CIIC Vehicle Dynamics
CATL (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology’s CIIC Electronic and Electrical Inter
Synland’s CTC Electric Chassis Platform Sol
Synland’s Commercial Vehicle Skateboard Chassis Solu
Summary of Skateboard Chassis Collabora
3.3 U P
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Skateboard Chassis Vehicle Platform Pla
Vehicle Models Covered by Skateboard Chassis Vehicle Plat
Skateboard Chassis Sol
UP S
Skateboard Chassis Application
Strategic Coopera
3.4 PIX M
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Skateboard Chassis Sol
Autonomous Driving Development Kit PIXKI
Autonomous Driving Development Kit Cooperation
Skateboard Chassis Applied Vehi
Skateboard Chassis Applied Vehi
Skateboard Chassis Applied Vehic
Skateboard Chassis Cooperation
Summary of Skateboard Chassis Collabora
3.5 SuperPa
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Team Backg
Core Technologies for Wire-Controlled Skateboard Ch
Skateboard Chassis Sol
Strategic Coopera
3.6 HLONG Techn
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Skateboard Chassis Sol
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Skateboard Chassis Application C
Strategic Cooperation on Autonomous Freight Pla
3.7
Profile and Product Ped
Skateboard Chassis Sol
Octopus Pla
Octopus Platform Application
3.8 ECAR
Technology Architecture of Autonomous Skateboard Ch
Standard Chassis Sol
Standard Chassis Application
Partners and Financing Hi
3.9 TEEMO Techn
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Skateboard Chassis Layered Stru
Summary of Skateboard Chassis Solu
Skateboard Chassis Kit Solut
Skateboard Chassis Kit Solut
Skateboard Chassis Application
Skateboard Chassis Cooperation
3.10 Seektop Autom
Core Technol
Skateboard Ch
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Solut
Skateboard Chassis Application
4 Application Scenarios and Solutions for Skateboard Chassis
4.1 Last-Mile Delivery Application Scenarios and Solutions for Skateboard Ch
4.1.1 Last-Mile Delivery Application Scenario C
4.1.2 Last-Mile Delivery Application Scenario C
4.1.3 Last-Mile Delivery Application Scenario C
4.1.4 Last-Mile Delivery Application Scenario C
4.1.5 Last-Mile Delivery Application Scenario Solut
4.1.6 Last-Mile Delivery Application Scenario Solutio
4.2 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenarios and Solutions for Skateboard Ch
4.2.1 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenario C
4.2.2 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenario C
4.2.3 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenario C
4.2.4 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenario C
4.2.5 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenario Solut
4.2.6 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenario Solut
4.2.7 Commercial Vehicle Application Scenario Soluti
4.3 Passenger Car Application Scenario and Soluti
4.3 Passenger Car Application Scenario and Solut
5 Development Trends of Skateboard Chassis
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