DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024

Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by colechristensen on Monday May 30, 2022 @05:53PM (#31564032)

>“The car is being built in Italy – we’ve outsourced that – and we have some partners on the UK on the powertrain side.”

They’re using existing platforms from other companies and customizing them.

Similar to how the original Tesla Roadster was based in the Lotus Elise, they took the basic design and modified it to be an EV keeping as many parts as possible to simplify the design and safety process.

It’s easier to modify an existing design than to start from scratch and you get to outsource much of the process.

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by LanceJones on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:46PM (#31564446)

Note that this is not true in Tesla's case. Elon and team thought it would be easier to modify an existing design, but have since admitted that it was a mistake to do so.

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by colechristensen on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:04PM (#31564565)

Eh, that's still their estimation of how things would have went if they made different choices. They had the experience of building a car from the ground up after building a car from an existing base. Who knows how it would have gone had they tried to build their first car from nothing.

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:01PM (#31564095)

Would also note that EVs are massively easier to build than ICE vehicles.

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by LanceJones on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:45PM (#31564437)

Then why are so many legacy ICE manufacturers struggling so badly with manufacturing and production at scale?

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by colechristensen on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:01PM (#31564550)

Because scaling any car manufacturing business is hard and developing an EV is still a hell of a lot harder than releasing the next model of whatever ICE car you've been iterating on for a century.

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:08PM (#31564910)

> why are so many legacy ICE manufacturers struggling so badly with manufacturing and production at scale?

Because it’s still hard. Just not permanent incumbency hard like it was for IC engines.

We will probably see EVs continue to see successful new entrants with a diverse set of players pushing down prices and increasing the number of options for consumers while keeping any single manufacturer from achieving dominance.

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by imtringued on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:18AM (#31568246)

VW isn't struggling, it is the biggest EV manufacturer in Europe.

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Re:DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024 by yuppie_scum on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:15PM (#31564202)

But still not easy. Look at the dicey early examples of any Tesla for example..

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