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Intriguing hypothesis! To chase it down a little more, is it true that legacy car companies don't use the "skateboard battery" approach, since this hypothesis

• Latteland 8y ago
  They mostly haven't, because it was simpler for them to have a few bigger batteries, maybe that was easier to get from suppliers too? Also tesla didn't have to fit their design into factories and cars made for a long central drive shaft down the middle. There are some evs with the skateboard, the porsche coming in a year will have that format, and use lots of little batteries like the t.