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My guess there is quite a lot of this low-hanging fruit improvements. Electric cars its a young technology than can go through tons of incremental changes that
by jakozaur 10y ago
My guess there is quite a lot of this low-hanging fruit improvements. Electric cars its a young technology than can go through tons of incremental changes that will add up.
E.g. compare gas cars over decades. There were tons of improvements that allow much better fuel efficiency.
- bluGill 10y ago>compare gas cars over decades. There were tons of improvements that allow much better fuel efficiency. Electric motors are old technology. Most of the improvements in electric motors have already been achieved, just like the internal combustion engine. Most of the things that original poster pointed to are improvements brought from gasoline cars (only the heat pump for heat is somewhat unique - gas engines have plenty of waste heat so they don't need that)
- greglindahl 10y agoAir conditioners are heat pumps.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoThat's my point though, it's not that they invented new technology, they just sat down and said "heating is using X% of the battery, how can we lower that" and because it's an EV rather than an ICE car, different decisions would be made when picking from the existing range of off-the-shelf tech. There will be lots of these little decisions, and they'll probably add up, now that people are over the hump of "how can we build a modern EV" and just building incrementally better cars.