The Best Thing That Can Happen To Electric Cars Is What Happened To PCs In The 1990s

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Aidan

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At this moment, the idea that we’re on the brink of electric cars becoming cheaper to build than combustion cars is getting a lot of traction, along with the idea that EVs will be as cheap to own as the loud kind of car even sooner. These are important developments, and while it’s potentially good news for consumers, it’s not enough. The ideal model for electric vehicles should be similar to what happened to computers in the 1990s.

By “ideal model,” I’m referring to what would be best for consumers, primarily. As electric car tech gets more mature, cheaper to produce, and into larger-scale production, the industry will very soon be at a point where some significant changes to how EVs are built can be made.


Cars aren’t computers, of course, as anyone who has ever tried to take a Commodore 64 to Cars and Coffee can tell you. But EV technology is significantly different than conventional car technology, and those differences open up production and saled options that haven’t previously been available.

First, the fundamental drivetrain technology of EVs is far simpler than internal-combustion cars, and it’s already being realized that electric drivetrains are becoming something of a commodity, and not the huge differentiator that drivetrains are in ICE cars.


Yesterday, the cars-powered-by-electrons enthusiast site Electrek published an interview with noted …


That’s why people like Henrik Fisker have been pushing the value of styling so hard; because they know that an electric motor is an electric motor. EVs are, to a far greater degree than a conventional car, plug-and-play. They have the potential to be far more modular than cars are now, and that opens up many new options.

So how do 1990s PCs fit into all this? First, let’s do a quick overview of personal computing timelines: The 1970s saw the first major wave of personal computers, mostly to hardcore, tech saavy, hobbyists, the 1980s was the first real home computer explosion, with large numbers of competing, incompatible standards and OSes, and by the 1990s, two major standards emerged from the chaos: the IBM PC-based architecture and Apple Mac architecture.
Lots more to this article find it here

http://jalopnik.com/the-best-thing-that-can-happen-to-electric-cars-is-what-1795506063


These type of articles are my favourite over all the technical and mechanical side of things. Gets us thinking and understanding how this are possibly going to change for better or worse and why
 
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