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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 little support - 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 a vague language that they literally just described an electric car.
This entire article is just ad-copy. It’s fashion writing for tech nerds.
We need some more future cars like this.
Why does all our shit looks like someone just smoothed out the cars from the 90s?
Because the “smoothed out the cars from the 90s” are practical, serviceable and (American pickups aside) not gargantuan space hogs.
Because making cars more aerodynamic was way easier than making ICEs more efficient.
Because this looks like shit? Its an even uglier cyber truck.
Tron: Legacy soundtrack comes preloaded
I’m never getting my EV 1989 VW GTI, am I?
As a resto mod? Possibly.
As a modern EV? Never.
Fine! I’ll make my own 1989 VW GTI EV! With blackjack! And hookers!
It seemed like Honda was going in the right direction with the eCity, but so much for that, I guess.
I really wish car companies would actually release production models that looked like the concept models. These look so goddamn cool.
No you don’t. They look cool and get you thinking you want them. However if you ever had to live with them instead of just looking you would quickly discover some of those cool looking things make for very annoying compromises and so you wouldn’t want them.
You have described the experience of Jeep ownership. The heart wants what it wants.
lol, my first car was a Jeep. Fun car.
never bought another one, though.
I bought a Wrangler new for $27k, hit two trees with it while offroading, lost its spare key, and sold it without working heat 8 years later for 18k. 10/10, would do that again.
Though honestly, I probably wouldnt buy one again either. My wife and I want a light truck for house projects and her short commute, an EV for travel and my commute, and then I’d love a Polaris or something for fun. A Jeep ain’t any of those
I bought a Wrangler new for $27k
'96-’01?
given your story, it sounds like you did your best to drive that thing into the ground (not judging). I’m glad you had fun with it, as that’s what they’re for, although, you probably would have gotten many more years out of it had you actually driven it like a car and on the street (also, regular maintenance). just sayin’.
given your follow-up, it was obviously not a long-term choice (is it for anyone?), and I’m glad you’ve found what works for you. I discovered that my vehicle of choice is the NYC Subway! But, fuck, I REALLY miss my 2001 Honda Accord EX Coupe! That car was the shit!
'13, sold in 2021, hence the inflated value haha.
I make it sound worse than it was. It was as sound as can be drivetrain wise, and every upgrade was carefully picked with a long term lifespan and serviceable parts, like a heim joint control arm set. I loved that thing, it just had cosmetic stories to tell.
I’m glad you found your vibe too. Social phobias have me antsy in a room with more than 20 people, NYC would break me in no time. But more power to you, live the life you love.
I rented a jeep (Cherokee?) for the first time recently. Literally a worse driving experience than my old 2000 Mitsubishi Galant. Which was the worst ever, prior to the jeep.
I also think they’re cool. I also wouldn’t own one because of how incredibly out of place they look.
It looks like the head of a vacuum cleaner. Or a Star Trek TOS phaser.
Someone at Honda looked at the failure that is the Cybertruck and was like “Huh… not bad”
The difference here is that the car in the picture is a concept car, which very very rarely ever makes it to production as is. The Cybertruck is the exception to that rule…
Oh don’t worry, the real Cybertruck is much worse than the concept!
Did they license the trademark from Mitsubishi?
Fuck cars, all of them!
Someone chopped the roof off?
And the side mirrors.
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.
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.
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.
I really hope that back end is the charging port and you get to park you car like one of those toy cars that you you ‘charge’ up and fire across the room.
Continuing the trend of completely butchering the rear end of the vehicle as is the case with many other modern cars aswell.
