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Re:Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @03:28PM (#20338570)
Yes, and an EV is lacking two massive groups of those systems because it doesn't have the mechanical systems those electronics control.

Edit: Why is this being down-voted? Is it factually incorrect or does it make people uncomfortable?

Re:Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week by bumby on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:29PM (#20339583)
To the higher parent comment's point, the trade-off may not have been an equal one.

Yes, they have two less major mechanical systems. But they likely have more electronic and software systems, which tend to have more failure modes (and be more difficult to test) than their mechanical counterparts.

Back when I worked in automotive assembly, we'd did some work replacing mechanical systems with electronic controls. To a large extent, the mechanical systems, once tuned, would run indefinitely until they developed some mechanical wear. The electronic counterparts had to be re-tuned on a regular basis. The electronic ones had less moving parts, but increased complexity.