Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how quickly vehicles are changing- not just EVs, but the software side of the industry as a whole.
It reminds me of what happened to phones years ago.
Before smartphones, a phone was just a phone. Then suddenly the iPhone showed up and quietly turned the phone into a software platform. Cameras, GPS devices, MP3 players, calculators - everything got absorbed into one device.
Sometimes I wonder if cars are heading down the same road.
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Ah, my bad! Let’s shift gears from smartphones to the massive, multi-hundred-pound power plants sitting underneath modern electric vehicles (EVs).
If you think a phone battery fire is scary, an EV battery issue is a whole different beast. While data actually shows that EVs are statistically less likely to catch fire than internal combustion engine (ICE) cars per mile driven, when an EV battery does act up, it makes international news.
The problems modern car batteries face aren't just
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