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The world's carmakers are struggling to compete with China (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That's apparently extremely hard in the era of SUVs and huge tablet displays... At least for the second there is some pushback

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I’m worried that, due to the requirement of having a massive battery pack under the floorboards, we won’t ever have something that doesn’t look like an SUV

    Just look at the new “Ferrari”

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Technology will catch up. Batteries today have a capacity of around 250w/kg, but in the lab they are already 400-500w/kg. At some point "range anxiety" stops being a real issue, and then you don't need to cram as many batteries as you can anymore, and you focus on optimizing what you already have.

    Everything else in an electric car is already more compact than an ice equivalent.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Okay then my other worry is that people will be so used to buying SUVs that car makers won’t make anything else.

    Which has already happened.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I just read a news article saying that the new car buying generation of teens and twenty-somethings actually don't want SUVs as they see them as "old people cars". If that's true, I'm all for it.

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