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Add Dyson to the list of failed/failing EV entrants (Faraday, Lucid, Elio, Aptera, ...) finding out the hard way that building a commercially viable car is hard
by mdorazio 7y ago
Add Dyson to the list of failed/failing EV entrants (Faraday, Lucid, Elio, Aptera, ...) finding out the hard way that building a commercially viable car is hard regardless of what its powertrain looks like.
- andy_ppp 7y agoBuilding a commercially competitive production line is the problem no? Designing of the electric car is trivial I'd say compared to the (programming and usage of) robots and (training and hiring of) humans required to actually assemble the thing.
- jcims 7y agoYou don't design the car, you design the process to manufacture the car. The desired properties of the car itself just provides some constraints on the manufacturing process.
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- ainar-g 7y agoRe. the list. An obscure but mildly interesting one is Yo-Mobile[1]. It was a project funded by Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, of Brooklyn Nets fame. Prokhorov claimed that his engineers have developed a revolutionary supercapacitor technology, which will put any Li-Ion battery to shame. When Prokhorov later revealed that he was running for President Of Russia in 2012, a lot of people started thinking that Yo-Mobile was a publicity stunt from the very beginning. Prokhorov, rater predictably, lost the election (third place, less than 8 % of votes). Yo-Mobile was sold to the Russian Government for €1 (one Euro) and apparently abandoned later. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Mobile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Mobile