For a luxury car maker, front-wheel drive is rarely an option – although even Aston Martin broke this unwritten rule when it sold a rebadged Toyota iQ city car with FWD in the 2010s.
Aston Martin, the British ultra-luxury carmaker that gave the world several James Bond cars, is preparing for an all-electric future, having pledged to transform its core range of vehicles into battery electric ones by 2030.
With the latest funding, the British carmaker will lead a six-partner collaborative project that “will address the technical challenges of developing a lightweight, 800V traction battery and twin front electric drive unit into a modular BEV platform with bandwidth from supercar to SUV,” the release says.
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