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Originally Posted by XprizeRoadTrip
The Xprize revealed that disturbing truth. The sooner we embrace it by re-designing vehicle architecture, refining our innovations and creating a new pedigree of affordable, hyper-efficient vehicles, the sooner we arrive at a more sustainable future.
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Reality check : it WON'T happen anytime soon.
IMO, it won't happen at all.
Joe Average hardly wants to get into more sensibly sized Euro or Jap cars.
What makes you think the US consumer - yeah, some generalisation if there ever was one - will jump out of his monster truck / SUV and into that redesigned, cramped new architecture , or into rearward facing seats ?
Looking back, just about all start-ups that were about to bring the next radically new automotive breakthrough and coupled it with an equally radically new design, have failed miserably.
The traditional car shape has some serious advantages - hence it's no surprise that it came about.
There's also lots of unused improvement left in the traditional car.
Reducing weight being a no-brainer for the future - not the current miserable 10-60 kg, but more like 200-500 kg depending on car size.