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Neat to see. I think the future of these cars will be alot like ARM chips. One company, probably foxconn, will build reference designs and individual companie
by chollida1 4y ago
Neat to see. I think the future of these cars will be alot like ARM chips.
One company, probably foxconn, will build reference designs and individual companies will license those designs and tweak them, mostly on the interior and have foxconn either manufacture the entire thing or build the chassis/battery pack and let another company build the body/interior.
That way you can skip the Rnd Process and just require a factory to build/assemble these in the country they are required. Assembling a car isn't easy but its far easier than designing them from scratch and its something that many countries and companies already have plenty of experience with.
- justin66 4y agoThis is the present, not the future. A very high percentage of the parts of the Chevy Bolt were manufactured by LG Chem as part of an LG Chem reference design. (which worked out great)
- crooked-v 4y agoAlso see the Hyundai Ioniq 5, the Kia EV6, and the Genesis GV60 being basically the same car with different finishes and tweaking.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoHyundai owns Genesis/Ioniq and part of Kia so it's not exactly the same. I think the parent commenter was talking more about a company specializing in the EV platforms like Hyundai-Kia's EGMP or VW's MEB on which other companies would build cars.
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- pcardoso 4y agoThis was suggested by Frederic at this blog post https://mondaynote.com/evs-the-manufacturing-revolution-40a7f246696 https://mondaynote.com/evs-the-manufacturing-revolution-40a7... This is a blog by Frederic Filloux and Jean-Louis Gassee of Apple/BeOS fame.
- otabdeveloper4 4y agoThere is no future of these cars. Making electric cars is very much a "trying to make a faster horse" situation. In the future people will use electric vehicles in formats we haven't invented yet and can't even imagine. P.S. Personally I use an EUC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rlw6fDmcQM&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rlw6fDmcQM&t=1s) for commuting and errands, but that's just me.
- L_226 4y agoBanned in Germany :( electric vehicles must have 2 independent mechanical brakes.
- otabdeveloper4 4y agoI'm sure society collectively will eventually figure out the correct form-factor and legislation for electric vehicles. I don't know what we'll eventually settle on, but I'm sure it won't look like hydrocarbon-powered cars with electric engines. (German legislation actually doesn't make much sense because electric scooters are in fact less safe than EUCs; scooters don't require skill to ride, but they fail more often and in more spectacular ways.)