Thursday, October 10, 2019

Baby and bath water

James Dyson Shows It's Too Easy to Make Electric Cars
The reason it was even conceivable for Dyson Ltd. to make an electric car may also have been why its project was doomed to fail: They’re simply too easy to make. The British company, best known for its expensive vacuum cleaners, has now abandoned its 2 billion-pound ($2.5 billion) plan to branch out and take on the likes of Tesla Inc. and Volkswagen AG.

Whereas cars with a combustion engine need about 30,000 components, an electric vehicle needs just 11,000 parts, according to research from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. That reduction in complexity has lowered the barriers to entry for the automotive market, and caused a surge in the number of new carmakers.
Electro drive is great, all the effort to simplify the electric car yield fantastic methods of electro drive. We just need a better energy source than lithium.  Take a fixed speed, low rpm combustion motor to generate the charge and components drop to 20,000 per car, from 30,000.  All the transmission drive goes away. Simplified engine control allows selectivity of  biofuels, swappable energy with hydrogen cells or hydrogen combustion.  Look at existing APU technology.

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