Stellantis’ new STLA Large platform will underpin EVs able to 0-60 mph acceleration in 2.0 seconds, the automaker claims. 

At a latest media occasion, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares claims this fast acceleration is not nearly efficiency. He appeared to argue that it may be a security function, making it simpler to, for instance, overtake a slow-moving truck on a two-lane street.

STLA Massive platform

“The extra acceleration you might have, the safer the circumstances below which your overtake may be,” Tavares told Top Gear and different media, “and from that perspective the BEV expertise is nice as everyone knows.”

STLA Massive is one among four highly modular platforms, together with STLA Small, STLA Medium, and STLA Body, first proven by Stellantis in 2021 as the inspiration for the automaker’s future EVs. STLA Massive, which is designed for D and E phase autos starting from efficiency automobiles to rugged off-roaders, is anticipated to help gasoline engines as effectively.

STLA Massive platform

Stellantis has confirmed eight autos primarily based on the STLA Massive platform might be launched from 2024 to 2026 for its Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Maserati manufacturers. The EV almost definitely to completely exploit the STLA Massive platform’s accelerative capabilities is the deliberate Dodge Charger/Challenger successor, due later this yr.

Different identified autos utilizing the STLA Massive platform are Alfa Romeo’s replacements for the Giulia and Stelvio, and the Jeep Wagoneer S additionally due later this yr. The Wagoneer S was first proven in 2022 alongside the more rugged Jeep Recon, which can also be seemingly to make use of the STLA Massive platform, and the Jeep Avenger, a smaller SUV already on sale in Europe with each gasoline and electrical powertrains, however unlikely to achieve the U.S.