VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback

Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by unlinked_dll on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @03:35PM (#21338044)

>WHY do these vehicles always have to look so freaking dorky?

Someone once explained to me that it was because EVs try and minimize the weight of the chassis to extend the range of the vehicle, and it's difficult to get more traditional curvatures in the chassis while doing that and balancing with safety/cost.

No idea how accurate that is.

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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by petre on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:05PM (#21338392)

Excuses. Build it out of carbon fiber, aluminium or a steel chasis and plastic panels like the Smart. The Smart looks like crap too but it's not like one cannot mold plastic to look good. Just pay some Italian designers to do it.

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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by muzika on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:00PM (#21338310)

This can’t be true, because most of the dorky features of these cars are definitely not affecting structure/auerodymanics etc.

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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by petre on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:07PM (#21338419)

They affect sales bigtime, nevetheless.

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