Building EVs isn’t as simple as some want you to believe, and it might not be any cheaper.
Volvo chief technology officer Henrik Green agrees the technology arms race unleashed by the new electric vehicle manufacturers and the emergence of tech companies into the sector challenges the auto industry's traditional ways of working."We see speed in development has taken over as the key differentiator," he says.
The popular notion that electric vehicle powertrains mean simpler vehicle architectures that can underpin more types of vehicles and can be kept in production for longer is wrong, Green says."It's easy to fall into the trap that BEV platforms will be simpler and have longer model cycles," he says."Traditionally, whomever could do the most vehicles on the same platform would win.
Although relatively straightforward to engineer, with much of its hardware—the central underfloor battery pack, the inverter, the motors—readily sourced from suppliers, the skateboard platform favored by many EV startups is an inefficient solution in terms of both weight and packaging, Green says. Far better, he argues, to integrate battery cells directly into the vehicle's body structure and use motors and inverters that are tailored to a vehicle's performance and packaging parameters.
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