Holy heck you absolute madlads!😂 I figured "no way are they gonna be safe, let alone able to pull off, just walking up to a manufacturer unannounced and getting a meeting..." _AND YA DID THE DANG THING_ heckyeah bud!!

Air disc brakes on the main axles and independent powered fronts? I like where this manufacturer is going! AWD electric big rigs will be sweet

Oooo that independent steering axle set up is siiiccckkk ... 5ton military truck retrofit, 6 wheel drive, independent suspension all around... Yep, now if i can just win the lotto

I love that you and Rich are wearing each other's merch to avoid being pretentious! ;) Thanks for documenting your journey.

The towing mode is slick.

Y'all are changing hearts and minds about what electric vehicles mean for Canada and the world. Thank you.

So what you are saying we will be able to flat tow the trucks behind an RV by engaging the neutrual tow mode? Yes! Thank you!

the powered axle on a Log trailer would be a total game changer, especially for a self loader, cause we're always getting called into some janky back yard with no road... little bit of push from the trailer would make life soooo much easier. be better if it say was made with smaller drive motor, to save weight, and you really don't need massive power on the trailer, just a wee bit of assistance does wonders. A lift axle with independent drive motors, would be super skookum easy addition to a traditional diesel truck too... small set a batteries, you could just use it for cruising speeds or a boost on hills etc.

You and Eric have come soooo far Chace . Look at how you are growing by leaps and Bounds every month . Great minds working as one. Technical innovation just like The Canadarm . You make us proud , boys .

Electric trailer axles sounds like a great addition for winter roads and mud.

China is really kicking ass with USA tech.

Edison is one of my favorite companies !

Motors on the steer axle looks really cool. Any idea if that can or will be scaled down to be made available for 1/2 ton conversions ?

Wow love this china series. All the way from germany🔥👍.

I wonder if you can find a a Canadian with some Chinese language skills for your next visit. I bet they would be really impressed if you brought your own translator.

I absolutely can not wait for more. I'm also super excited to try to get some dollars to you for investing. I just super believe in what you all are doing!

Glad you had a nice and productive visit. Looks like you were in the Shanghai Tower. I was just there last month. Pretty cool place. But yeah, being physically in China and doing business in China is on a whole other level compared to the west. Say what you will about their political system, they are light years ahead of the west when it comes to modern business.

Those almost look like oversized quad piston Brembo style calipers. So much easier to do pads on those. Looks like a bit of a pain to install rotors, but for the kind of braking performance you get, it's a sacrifice on maintenance that is well worth it.

I like the positive outlook on your whole trip. I enjoyed my travels to China last fall as well, fantastic place and while the flow of people is a lot faster then were usually used too, everyone is still quite nice. Looking forward to your trucks on the road, showing the world that people can still innovate and build!

Please make a deuce and a half. Your idea for military makes so much sense. Especially as a mobile power source.

Already signed up for the investor notification.... This is the kind of video I love to see from Edison Motors YT channel. Great stuff and productive. Really going to be interested in the pickup truck conversion for my gen III cummins quad-cab

Love the new intro/outro; might not be new but I just saw it for the first time and thought it was cool!😆

Great to see that you have done a good job in business and had a good time in China! China welcomes people like you guys all the time!!!

Great work so far, didn’t even realize Perkins was still a thing.

Finding the right parts, the right solutions, is going to make the final product a lot more cohesive and reliable.

Driving trailer axles limit the damage to roads. Back on the farm in the seventies we used an old truck complete with front axle for a trailer. Was a beast to pull with our modest 2wd tractor. We hooked up the pto thru a gearbox via a dri eshaft, flipped the diff to get the correct rotation and with a decent load would go places you would never think. Stopped the tractor ripping up the roadways and fields.

Interesting , Thank You . I hope that every thing keeps working and you all can keep growing

Your hard work and steadfast commitment to this endeavor is admirable and will surely have impressive results! Keep it up, guys! Cheers!

Powered front suspension steering setup in a subframe - wow - and those amazing rear axles. Well done gentlemen!

I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys are doing succeed !

Great content for a OE manufacturer. Congrats for following the right to repair and showing how it's done without fear of theft of concept.

You are discovering for yourself that everything made in china isn't garbage. Nice work!

7:45 barn door almost open? haha

Very cool but i do wonder how all the additional unsprung mass is going to alter the vehicle dynamics. Shocks will be getting a lot more work etc.

Last weekend there was a group of us went and had a look at a shed where a guy is restoring a 1918 Walker electric truck. Very interesting.

What an amazing experience for all of you. Thanks for bringing us along.

Rich going round with his fly down distracting my wife. Thanks Uncle Rich.

I would just like to say that you are inspiring entrepreneurs. There is no place for hate comments here. I just hope for the World in peace. ☮

Awesome. Very cool stuff. How about Scania gen-sets? ...should be servicable through International. At least it's the S13 in the new binders. They also make a 9 liter.

You have about seven months to build the first all electric rear steer off road wrecker for the Off Road Wrecker Games March 2025 in Hurricane, Utah.

signed up for the investment notice! If yall get well setup on truck production i think the next thing yall should try Jet engine + electric car A small jet engine can give plenty of power to recharge a car and also be main power source. In Aviation our jets already are used for power generation via APUs. In the past Chrysler attempted a jet engine car and it failed due to the costs and idling issues but with a electric you can make the jet run at the same speed continuously I believe its a really good idea now especially if you guys pull a ford and target lower middle class americans. Tesla is a nice car but the extra junk makes it a rich person car and not something for normal people.

?.???? How about rear steering both truck and Trailer especially long trailers for getting around tight turns

this is awesome, think of the diesel pusher market.. swap out the rear axle w/ an E-Axle, and attach the rest of the gear where the Allison trans would go. packaging wouldn't be too terrible with the amount of room in those rigs.

Like having disc brakes. After driving Unimogs years ago, gotta admit I'm a fan of them. Being able to disenguage drive easily if need to tow is a real bonus.

Super excited for you guys to get this all squared away. I’m going to wait for the 500hp per axle so I can have 1000hp in 4x4.

That axle unlock lever cover design permits replacing it with a manual or electric remote control.

Just like EMU trains! Briliant!

I have been telling all my Friends and Work partner's and family How Edison motors is about to change the World in such amazing ways and they don't even know anything and look at me crazy .... I feel like I'm all alone out there sometimes And people are so uniformed around me . But they will see someday .

Was going to buy a set of those axles till I got a price just for one. Blew my mind how much it was. That's when I noped right out of there

Its nice to see some guy s visiting the country and form an honest opinion. The is so much said about: ,,made in china,, but nowadays they do a lot of r and d on their stuff. Only problem for us is that we get dependable on their supply.

Amazing! Thank you for sharing this video. Greetings from Madang, Papua New Guinea!

Amazing how well it went

Those axles look heavy. TOPSY was lighter than a stock truck but i bet those axles add alot of weight...curious to how much?

you guys are gonna change the world! ❤‍🔥

Good Luck boys!

This Is all great I hope you guys change the industry and finally make efficient, right to repair semi trucks without all the OEM BS

I take it that the axles are very weather resistant , especially the steering axles. But. !!! would it be prudent to have some sort of shrouding around them to protect them from rocks and mud ,ice etc . From getting packed up with road debris, thus making it easier to keep clean !! Just something to think about when building off road units , branch or log pops up and takes out an important component. I have had a large branch pop up and take out a brake line on me before. And getting stuck in mud and rocks damage drive shafts.. So when you’re fabricating a new project together it’s something to consider…. Food for thought. !! Have a. Fun. Day. LOVE WHAT YOUR DOING. !!!!!

I thought Edison guys and Rich already were friends! 😅😅

Hell yeah!!! Looks like yall had a great time!!

Good luck all

Awesome stuff! The comments on steer axles reminds me that you could make some crazy low trucks for recovery or towing with detachable axles or movable axles like a transformer. Whether or not there's a market for that and it's viable to do, I dunno...

This is great, some very exciting developments !!!

That unsprung mass is diabolical even for a truck. And you have to pull the whole assembly to service it.

Looking forward to more info on medium duty conversion trucks. I'd LOVE to do an E-drive in my 75 Loadstar crew cab build.

Is that dual motor axle? torque vectoring in gravel/mud would be interesting. steering axles for the trailer in the woods would be helpful with hydraulic/electric steering. to on road use, steering mechanism locked. (and sometimes off road is on asphalt 😂)

Hopefully the lid to that axle switch has pockets in it that would hold the switch to one side or the other and prevent it from moving when the lid is on. It looked pretty easy for him to move that, and logging trucks arent exactly on the smoothest of roads or treated so nicely from the loaders/unloaders.

As a former oilfield worker, you get a hybrid twin-steer out there, you'll be winning the oil patch. Essentially Topsy with another steering axle, long frame and service deck with tow crane to move bowsers, boilers, shacks and whatever else around a drilling site means you get the work. Reliability in all weather and ground conditions is paramount. That tour was awesome! A part of me wishes we had our manufacturing up to snuff in Canada so we could make that here. But that's another political shit show I don't need to explain to you folks that are going through that at home.

I would love a 1979 F350 ext cab with e axles to pull a 5th wheel, never going over 78mph. Just moving the mass easily down the highway.

They wore the formal flannel

Guys here call them perkapellers

I would so want that on my truck AWD for the mountains that would be amazing

I wonder if the unsuspended weight of the heavy motors directly located on the wheel hubs matter as much on a truck as it matters on a passenger vehicle, where it would be a huge no-no as unsuspended weight greatly affects handling.

Those things are beefy!

Pretty great way of throwing money in the trash

make all axles steering axles with the computer setup calculating the different steering percentages. including trailers being programmed with length to axles for true follow me steering. i would love to see the outer half of the fifth wheel be separate power connections, removing any other hook up. do everything but power by wifi. trailer and tractor sharing battery load, regen, and generator through the circle connections on the fifth wheel.

With all these independent drive components... is there a possibility of an Edison Pike's Peak truck??

This is SO much better than what Tesla has given us, you have actually achievable targets, good luck at industrial shop!

Why did you go with different axles for the next gen rather than the axles that are currently in topsy?

Now do an agricultural tractor! Something simple, reliable, comfortable and can be repaired in a well equipped farm workshop!

So I have a never used monster truck chassis. Could I go electric?

Is there any potential move away from air brakes? Since everything is electric it would seem simpler designs to have the brake system all electric as well especially since regen does the majority of braking anyway.

On the logging truck if your coming down a big hill using dynamic braking and the batteries hit 100% charge, does the dynamic braking stop working? Or do you have a load bank to take the extra energy and keep the braking working?

Awesome! love it!

did you think about the remote control for the truck? in risky terrain maybe it is better to just walk outside.

next, dmi technology come to semis!!! This gonna save a LOT of Feul！！！！！

Looks more like a demo board half finished than actual dev board.

I'm surprised Ford and Chevy didn't use E-Axles on their electric pickups. The ICE versions have a solid axle, so there's little need for the fancy independent suspensions they put on their EVs that add cost onto already expensive trucks.

Does the neutral mode physically disconnect the axle shafts from the electric motor stator? If not, how are you handling the HV unloaded power from the motor? Does it not cause overvoltage damage to the inverter? I understand if that information is proprietary, however, it's just some questions I have with that platform.

Bros zipper took a vacation at some point, what were the chinese offering you guys xDXDXD 7:45

2:20 .. the super low would be good for transit buses or streetcars with low floors.

So how dose the fuel efficiency come in if your powering front an second axle at same time?? Understand the rear but not the front??👍👍🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧

How does a powered trailer drive? Do the motors sync up? Power distribution? Jack knife prevention?

I think you guys should hire someone with Chinese descent for stuff like this since you're going to be talking to these guys fairly often now. LTT had the same problem when so much of their stuff had to be done in China and their Chinese Canadian staff came in clutch. There's going to be a fair few brilliant graduates of Chinese descent who'd be willing to work with y'all

Didn't cummins just release a new four banger turbo?

Ok so, do u have a dedicated Suzi line for electric, asaposed to just lights. 👍👍🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧

Powered trailers are a thing with Australian road trains.

Canadian business suits on

Are these compatible with LMTV 6x6 or 4x4? I've wanted to do a hybrid overlander from a mil surplus truck for years.

Where are you on the possibility of selling a mini-Topsy with a pickup bed? I've always wanted a road vehicle with a driver seat in the center.

Did your truck have in standard 3phase high amperage outlet? You have high power inverter for motors just one contactor more and switch inverter from motor to power outlet. If that will be possible maybe that inverter (or more together) could work as DC-DC converter and your truck would become emergency mobile LEVEL 4 fast charger.