ANSTY, England — Geely unit London Electrical Automobile Firm (LEVC) on Friday unveiled a brand new, giant electric-vehicle platform for autos starting from minivans to industrial vans that it mentioned is also utilized by different items of the Chinese language automaker.

LEVC mentioned the platform, dubbed Area Oriented Structure (SOA), had been collectively developed over the past two-and-a-half years in China, Sweden, the U.Ok. and Germany, would offer EVs with longer vary, fast-charging capabilities and superior driver-assistance options.

Chatting with reporters on Thursday at LEVC headquarters in Ansty, England, executives mentioned the versatile platform might be used for a variety of EVs, together with pickup vehicles, giant SUVs and even cell properties.

However executives mentioned they may not present particulars of which EVs LEVC would deal with first, when the brand new EVs may roll off the manufacturing line or the place they are going to be made.

Earlier this 12 months, LEVC mentioned Geely was planning a giant funding to show the maker of London’s well-known black taxis right into a high-volume, all-electric model with a variety of economic and passenger autos.

The corporate mentioned it couldn’t but present an replace on these plans.

Geely owns a number of manufacturers together with British sports-car model Lotus, Zeekr, Volvo and – by way of a three way partnership with Volvo – Polestar.

As such, Geely faces complexities that bigger EV makers BYD and Tesla have prevented.

Geely additionally already has its personal industrial van model, Farizon.

LEVC Managing Director Chris Allen informed Reuters that the model was positioning itself throughout the Geely group to supply bigger EVs that “give more room, extra alternatives, extra flexibility with a bigger car dimension.”