Fuck cars, all of them!
Honda is also aiming for optimum battery efficiency through its use of e-Axles, a system consisting of a motor, inverter, and gearbox that converts electric power into energy for driving.
This is revolutionary, folks: e-Axles! Can you believe it? They made an electric car!
They’re describing an electric car.
Then they gave it a fancy proprietary name so gullible tech writers think it’s Technology™️ and regurgitate their ad copy as news articles.
To be fair e-axles are actually a thing. You can mount the electric motor where an engine would be and use largely the same components as a traditional car to get the motion to the wheels. Instead e-axles basically wrap all the motion components around the axle. Motor trend had an article about it a while ago.
www.motortrend.com/news/e-axle-vs-central-drive-motor-layout-commercial-evs
So it’s basically a fancy Technology™️ term for a layout decision which was called motor on axle for decades until a marketing department decided they needed some Innovation™️, and this tech writer described it so poorly I couldn’t even identify it even though I’ve programmed quad motor torque vectoring systems myself.
Electric motors have this interesting property where they require such minimal supporting components - basically a couple of power wires and some sensors - that they can scale to any size with very little overhead, and so you can do 4 motors. That’s it, electric cars give you this possibility for free.
“Motor-on-axle” is descriptive and helpful. In fact it’s too descriptive, because it reveals that nothing special is going on. “e-Axle” is opaque nonsense for gullible tech writers, and this one tried to make it sound special but ended up opting for such vague language that they literally just described an electric car.
This entire article is just ad-copy. It’s fashion writing for tech nerds.
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Ever notice how all the new selling points for cars are all things to avoid the experience of driving a car:
-self driving (because why would you want to drive a car)
-giant screens (because why would you want to look at all the shitty strip malls)
-tinted windows (because you wouldn’t want to be seen driving this piece of shit)
-self driving (because why would you want to drive a car)
Don’t use it/pay for self driving option
-giant screens (because why would you want to look at all the shitty strip malls)
People have been putting screens in cars for a very long time.
-tinted windows (because you wouldn’t want to be seen driving this piece of shit)
People have been tinting windows for a very long time
Everyone: ewww the Cybertruck is so ugly
Honda: hold my beer
Just make a regular looking car that happens to be EV. I don’t know why manufacturers have to make the dumbest looking vehicles for their EV cars.
I’m with you on this. I feel like manufacturers still feel like people are wanting to make a statement by making EVs look like their suited for spaceflight. I’d rather have near similar looking models to what we’ve already got with the combustion engine, with aerodynamic considerations for efficiency baked in.
Styles are changing, I guess they’re focus grouping it and people want cars from blade runner. No longer requiring a radiator or exhaust has actually produced some interesting designs.
No longer requiring a radiator or exhaust has actually produced some interesting designs.
I would rather just have more storage. I think lucid did it right for EV design, same with Rivian. Seems like the legacy car manufacturers always make a goofy design. The lucid air for example is a foot shorter than the S class but has more space.
Lots of visibility with such a small front end, but it’ll make head-on collisions scarier, also, imo. Looks aerodynamic, too. I’d have no issue rocking this for my daily.
Money would be the issue for me.
Just give me a standard car with an electric engine.
Depending on your commute, a used Nissan Leaf will get you back and forth for 5k to 10k. If you have a long commute, used Model S can be had as low as 20k, but it comes with some negative connotations.
If you don’t necessarily want to plug in and efficiency is good enough, old reliable Priuses are getting pretty cheap.
