Re:Electric Vehicles Are Overwhelmingly More Energy Efficient
by semi-extrinsic on Sunday May 19, 2019 @04:29AM
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It's also ironic reading on technology websites how important everyone thinks the engine is in a car. While in fact engines are the least specialized and least failure-prone part of a modern car.
Your link to people transplanting Tesla innards into other shells: people have done this since the 1930s. Back then it was called a Hot Rod, today aftermarket parts in the US alone is a $300+ billion industry.
It's ironic reading something like this on a technology website, an industry where scale and rapid development have delivered astounding value. Cars are just the latest product to be gobbled up by the same hyper-efficient industry.
My prediction is the car industry will look like the PC industry in the future. Complicated drive trains have been replaced by simple motors close to the wheel. You don't have to architect a car around them anymore. Scaling will produce more generic and interchangeable parts at much better prices. Soon we'll be talking about our latest build, but it will be a car, not a computer.
This has already started with enthusiasts transplanting reclaimed Tesla innards into other shells:
https://youtu.be/o-7b1waoj9Q?t=291