Re:Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans
by hadlock on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:08PM
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Electric cars typically have 1% the moving parts of an internal combustion engine vehicle. If the chassis is built well, you just need to swap out the motor and battery as needed, and flush the coolant every 5 years. There's no belts, chains, pumps etc for the most part to maintain or replace. The model X is pretty complex but if you look at the model 3 it's just a bunch of plug and play parts like a PC.
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Re:Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans
by javagram on Monday December 09, 2019 @08:51PM
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You could pretty much say the same thing about an ICE car though - plug and play standardized parts, ever since the Model T. I’ve owned my ICE for almost a decade and never needed to service the engine other than routine oil and filter changes.
There’s plenty of room for differentiation between electric cars, even the ones that already exist are plenty different. (Just like my ICE vehicle is different from other ICEs in many, many ways besides the engine)
Re:Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans
by greglindahl on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:02PM
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The Model 3 has this: https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-3s-superbottle-easter-e...
That's astonishingly less than a car's cooling systems (radiator, A/C, oil pump, etc.) It'll be fun to see what other EV makers come up with.