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Re:Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any ... by ericb on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:31AM (#18167761)
Intriguing hypothesis!

To chase it down a little more, is it true that legacy car companies don't use the "skateboard battery" approach, since this hypothesis predicts they would not?

Re:Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any ... by Latteland on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:35AM (#18173570)
They mostly haven't, because it was simpler for them to have a few bigger batteries, maybe that was easier to get from suppliers too? Also tesla didn't have to fit their design into factories and cars made for a long central drive shaft down the middle. There are some evs with the skateboard, the porsche coming in a year will have that format, and use lots of little batteries like the t.