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>Raimondo noted: "The truth of the matter is that requires a lot of chips. The average electric vehicle has 2,000 chips in one car... one of the manufacturers s
by carlmr 4y ago
>Raimondo noted: "The truth of the matter is that requires a lot of chips. The average electric vehicle has 2,000 chips in one car... one of the manufacturers said they're going to double their chip needs in the next five years. Probably the [combustion engine] car you drive now has hundreds of chips. The EV that we want you to buy over time has 2,000 chips."
I hear this repeated all the time. No you don't need hundreds of chips to build an ICE engine car, and no you don't need hundreds, let alone thousands, of chips to build an electric car. There's no technical reason electric cars need so many more chips than ICE cars.
The number of chips in cars is mostly due to the number of suppliers involved in building parts of the car separately.
- freemint 4y agoWhat makes one think EVs are gonna have much more chips then a comparable ICE? All those pumps, thousands of parts in the ICE, emissions control, transmission will become obsolete. Having a charging controller, an electric motor and battery monitoring is going to he a lot less complicated.
- carlmr 4y agoI know, and even in ICE the drivetrain is only a portion of the CPUs. Most do windshield wipers, seat adjustments, darkening mirrors, electronically adjustable mirrors, climate control, Infotainment and all the rest. There's no difference here in EVs.