DETROIT -- Bollinger Motors, the suburban Detroit-based startup making an attempt to interrupt into the electrical truck and SUV market, plans so as to add a battery-powered chassis to its line because it seeks business prospects.

Bollinger's E-Chassis will come totally engineered and able to be fitted with a physique, much like the best way automakers promote gasoline- and diesel-powered chassis cab autos to upfitters that use them to underpin ambulances, supply vans and different business autos. Bollinger's E-Chassis might be Class 3, which isn't a car meant for shoppers.

Bollinger says the E-Chassis will be ordered with two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive and will be configured into a number of completely different wheelbases, together with an prolonged wheelbase mannequin that may permit a bigger battery pack. The corporate mentioned Thursday it plans to launch the E-Chassis subsequent yr.