The automotive industry is undergoing its greatest upheaval since 1908 when the simplicity of Henry Ford’s mass-produced Model T cemented the future for internal combustion-engined (ICE) cars over the struggling alternatives of steam and electric vehicles.
This century’s politically enforced return of the electric vehicle has effectively handed automotive designers a fresh sheet of paper. Where an ICE vehicle demands the packaging of its large engine and transmission along with occupants and luggage, an electric vehicle’s (EV) compact motor or motors are more flexibly located and its huge battery, typically weighing upwards of 500 kilograms, can be sandwiched
