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Similar to cars, it's easy to spot Teslas but other brands don't stand out this much and you really need to know the little details to spot. Same for trucks.

• xienze 1y ago
  > Similar to cars, it's easy to spot Teslas but other brands don't stand out this much and you really need to know the little details to spot. Disagree. All you have to do is look for lack of a front grill or flush door handles to tell if a car is an EV.
  • rsynnott 1y ago
    This caused a lot of confusion with VW; a lot of people thought the id.3/4 were their first electric cars, because the eGolf and eUp looked so... normal. I'm fairly sure they deliberately said "we need to make it look more electric-car-y" at some point.
  • azernik 1y ago
    Flush door handles are completely orthogonal to whether a car is an EV; that just happened to be Tesla's design language.
    • xienze 1y ago
      I’ve yet to see an EV that doesn’t have some sort of flush handle design. My understanding is that it improves aerodynamics and I’m sure a secondary reason is “Tesla did it first” and the high tech aesthetic that EVs are expected to have.
      • tzs 1y ago
        Hyundai Kona and Kia Niro have normal doorhandles.