Donut Lab has taken a new approach to building electric vehicles with a development platform that offers a library of inter-compatible components that can be used to produce supercars, buses, UVs or SUVs in record time, it says.

The company claims the vehicles made on the platform offer better performance, and are lighter and more affordable.

One of the platform’s main benefits is its scalability to suit a variety of applications, such as hypercars, helicopters, robots and even space mission ATVs.

“Verge TS is the world’s most advanced electric motorcycle. When developing it, we learned how difficult and slow it is to build EVs using traditional mechanisms. The reason for this is that vehicles are built with components from different equipment manufacturers and are not designed to work together – integration work always takes up most of the time. We decided that if we were able to solve this, we would change the entire automotive industry,” said Marko Lehtimäki, CEO of Donut Lab.

One of the main components of the platform is the donut-shaped motor, which the company says enables better performance than other electric motors in all vehicle categories. In addition, a motor installed directly in the wheel eliminates the need for a drivetrain.

The platform speeds up the development cycle of EVs and can reduce the resource requirements for development by up to 95%, compared with the current level, Donut Lab says, so work that used to take several years can now be completed in a matter of months.