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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon
Safety and aerodynamics don't apply to EV's?
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Yes, but design principle is completely different.
With EV, you don't have the engine anywhere anymore. The entire front/rear is a crumple zone.
EVs no longer need to resemble to ICE cars because they can satisfy the safety regulations as well as cooling/aerodynamic by other means... often easier than their ICE counterparts. (low center of gravity, empty front/rear section).
The only reason they are still designing EVs that look pretty much like an ugly ICEs is not because of safety/aero consideration. It's that they are playing it safe and firmly believe that the market would prefer that way.
However, if that statement were true, all cars today should still look like a horse carriage.
People often don't know what they want until they are presented with an option.
Think smartphone... ever since the original iPhone, phones looked completely different than dumb phones... but no one ever complained that they should go back to how dumb phones or rotary phone look like. Any phonemaker who failed to adapt in time (Nokia, Sony Ericsson anyone?) are now part of history.
The move to EV should be treated as a blank canvas where companies can rethink what really matter and focus on those.
Cybertruck is going to the toughest mofo on truckland because they went with the first principle thinking... how to make a truly tough truck? And you end up with exoskeleton that can stop bullets with no paint job at all. One can drive that think through bushes and the toughest terrain and it wouldn't look much different from before and after. Because there is no paint to scratch off and no panel to dent.