Agreed that we shouldn't mis-optimize. I wonder how much Tesla pays for their motors. I wonder how much they'd save if they only needed 1/3rd as much material.

Agreed that we shouldn't mis-optimize. I wonder how much Tesla pays for their motors. I wonder how much they'd save if they only needed 1/3rd as much material. This kind of material-minimizing innovation seems like it could go a long way. It feels like if someone wanted to mass produce power-dense electric motors, they could radically reduce the cost of a motor by simply using less materials. If they can get to scale. If they can sell them like crazy, which they should, since they should be cheaper to make, as the material inputs are so much less. Koenigsegg of course doesn't care about production costs. It's expected that every item that goes into the car is going to be built via the most exorbinant processes possible. But the underlying idea of using far less material to make a motor sounds extremely attractive to me.