Thats just standard manufacturing > Most cars have an extremely complex set of CPUs, sensors, and control distributed all around the car. Chips in doors for lo

Thats just standard manufacturing > Most cars have an extremely complex set of CPUs, sensors, and control distributed all around the car. Chips in doors for locks/windows, a separate system for ABS (usually from bosche), networks of temperature/pressure/movement sensors, torque controls/monitoring for window motors, windshield wipers, airflow motors, etc. In the model 3 it's largely integrated into a single board yeahnah, thats deffo not true. tesla has a similar number of sensors, actuators and other junk. It even has an ABS pump too. How do they think they measure torque if there aren't any torque sensors? Having everything wired directly to a single board makes the wireloom really really unwieldy. Telsa use the same automotive busses everyone else does. (it probably uses ALL THE BUSSES, because why not.) the reason the reason tesla make a profit is that they've been value engineering the same three cars for close to ten years. however, they have only been making a profit since 2020. The other key is producing a car to a standard of something retailing for less than half the price. The top end Kia EV 4 feels much more "posh" than a model y, which is much more expensive. The killer feature of the EV 4 is that its waterproof.