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From a engineering perspective, a purely electric vehicle is very simple, not a challenge and in engineering focused companies thus often considered "unworthy"
by PicassoCTs 5y ago
From a engineering perspective, a purely electric vehicle is very simple, not a challenge and in engineering focused companies thus often considered "unworthy" of time and effort.
Internally you will often hear terms like "golf-cart" and "toy" to describe them. They threaten the careers of whole departments and large established supply chains. This fear/anger often manifests as subtle internal sabotage to pure electric projects.
- m-ee 5y agoNo engineer that knows anything about batteries would call a battery pack/BMS design that meets automotive requirements simple.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoSimple compared to ICE at their stage (NB: one has benefited from many centuries of man-hour work than the other). So, for their current level of efficiency, a BEV is simpler than an ICE also fewer people are able to produce the former for cheaper than the latter.
- aaronbeekay 5y agoI work in product development at a major global automaker. I have never heard somebody call a BEV program “simple”, and if somebody is trying to sabotage BEV projects, they’re doing a very, very bad job of it.
- dehrmann 5y agoI buy this to some extent, but it also reeks of hubris and discounts the value of marketing.