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The design of the car is only loosely related to the skateboard that contains the battery and the drivetrain.
by adrianN 3y ago
The design of the car is only loosely related to the skateboard that contains the battery and the drivetrain.
- tomatotomato37 3y agoConsidering 90% of modern consumer automobiles use a monocoque frame the design means everything to the chassis
- adrianN 3y agoAll cars made by the Volkswagen group are based on like 20 platforms. For example the Audi A3 and the Skoda Yeti are the same platform. They look quite different.
- bluGill 3y agoSkateboard makes even less sense for EVs than for ICEs. in an ICE you have a large engine and various axels that have to be in specific places. With an EV you have more room to move the motors around where they makes sense. While you need a lot of batteries, each cell is small, so you want to put things like seats in the car first and then add cells anywhere there is extra room.
- sbininit 3y agoYeah some cars (like the polestar) have really shallow rear-seat legroom, which was a total showstopper. They could have move some of those batteries to the trunk/frunk
- yurishimo 3y agoThey could, but there is also a cost to separating the batteries. More cables, which means more resistance, which means inefficiency. Not to mention the extra design and manufacturing costs. In practice, I don't think any company is meaningfully splitting up their battery pack to take advantage of "better" packaging logistics elsewhere in the frame/body. I know in this example, they could still likely be loosely attached in the same plane, but with less density under the cabin, but I think my point holds.