BRP, getting heavy into electrification, refiles a patent application for a two-door EV with a novel door that works on cars from a subcompact to an MPV.
Bombardier Recreational Products, a sister company of Bombardier Aviation and otherwise known as BRP, is the Canadian company that makes getabouts like the Can-Am line of UTVs and ATVs, Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, and Sea-Doo jet skis. As one might expect considering the breadth of the range, BRP is constantly filing patents for potential new developments.
Can-Am makes more than a few two-door UTVs. The unexpected aspects of the Two-Door Vehicle paperwork are that it contains just one drawing of something that looks like it could be a UTV, it's devoted to an electric vehicle on a skateboard chassis, and it refers to multiple vehicle body styles. We'll start with the doors, though. An unusual setup mounts the entry door on an articulated panel nested into the forward portion of the door. The panel's front hinge connects to the vehicle frame at the A-pillar, the rear hinge connects to the midpoint of the main door. When a passenger opens the main door, this panel pushes entire door outward, hanging away from the vehicle body on that panel.
The scheme's aimed at an electric vehicle with a skateboard pack arrangement and at least one motor, the text declaring this setup could be for a subcompact, compact, compact city car, coupe, hatchback, sedan, SUV or MPV. A patent application, even one filed twice, doesn't mean we'll see an equivalent in showrooms. But in 2021, BRP announced it had put aside $300 million to electrify every UTV and ATV in its lineup by 2026. We're waiting on the first entry from BRP, while Minnesota-based competitor Polaris has its Ranger Kinetic XP out already. The Canadians did the unexpected, however, revealing two electric motorcycles last year that returned the Can-Am name to the two-wheel motorcycle fold.
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