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Electric vehicles are necessarily more electronically complex than ICE ones. While many ICE cars on the road today and virtually all ICE cars for sale today are

Electric vehicles are necessarily more electronically complex than ICE ones. While many ICE cars on the road today and virtually all ICE cars for sale today are also electronically complex, an ICE car does not necessarily need to be so electronically complex. ICE cars did (and could still) exist entirely without computers, electric cars can not. The integration of things like regenerative breaking inherently requires turning functions like breaks from linkages and cylinders to things like solenoids and sensors and code. While each of these points is debatable about what the safer solution is overall, the fact that this is an electric car (with the associated electronic requirements) is relevant to the debate.

janfoeh 3y ago
Electric cars can and did exist without computers. There was an electric car driving on the streets of Paris in 1859. [1] I would argue it's the other way around: regenerative breaking is a nice to have, but good luck building a production ICE car without a ECU that comes anywhere close to meeting emission standards. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Trouvé#/media/File:Capture_d’écran_2016-10-14_à_21.26.28.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Trouvé#/media/File:Cap...
jacquesm 3y ago
> ICE cars did (and could still) exist entirely without computers, electric cars can not. They could, but unless they are vintage they won't get road approval due to emissions limitations.