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Where are the emotions? This is just a soulless machine. The website doesn’t even work properly. I can’t scroll all the way to the end on my iPhone.
The emotions are in the envy of those that can't afford them. In that sense it is no different than your iPhone: people that have these always mention they have them. The difference with your iPhone is they rarely actually drive them.
In case anyone was wondering what the Apple Car would have looked like inside, it would have been roughly this. As an Apple Car™ it makes sense, but as a Ferrari it's incredibly soulless and oversimplified. This Ive design aesthetic (Dieter Rams' aesthetic really) is fine on consumer electronics where you want the device to disappear and give way to the display, but on something as emotional as a vehicle (Ferrari esp…
So bland. An iPad put in a holder. I was not exactly hoping for, because I didn't really, but I dreamt of a much more radical design direction.
Porsche is the only car company that has nailed interior EV design - IMO. Their interiors look high-end, functional and not just a minimalist big computer screen. https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g46528574/2024-porsche-m...
Ferrari may not have nailed it, but it's a move to the right direction.
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The selling point of electric sports cars is more "the acceleration is amazing" and less "it makes a loud noise". e.g. > a 0–100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration time of 2.36 seconds, and a quarter mile (402 m) drag race time of 9.78 seconds. ... unofficially the fastest production car in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangwang_U9 > Model S Plaid Takes 2.07 Seconds to Accelerate from 0-100 mph https://www.energytr…
Acceleration is about the only selling point of a sports EV. They're so ungodly heavy because of the batteries that they handle like barges. They need giant tyres and so much ESC and software control because these things weigh almost 2000kg or more. You can try and work around it but there's only so much that can be done to make 2000kg take a corner. Looking at where sports cars will be in 10 years with ICEs being re…
(I knew they would eventually listen to me!)
Porsche is the only car company that has nailed interior EV design - IMO. Their interiors look high-end, functional and not just a minimalist big computer screen. https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g46528574/2024-porsche-m...
Is there a market for a $400,000+ electric sports car? For me, the excitement of a Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc is the engine and the sound.
It will have simulated gear changes if that helps at all...
The only successful vehicle which has that is a driver-training car built in China. It's electric, but has a clutch pedal and shifter which are inputs to the software. You can even "stall the engine".[1]
[1] https://www.jalopnik.com/this-chinese-electric-car-designed-...
The interior is akin to something from a compact Chinese car. Nothing to do with Ferrari.
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> Side note: I wonder if, in 20 years, petrol cars will the preserve of the very rich and the very poor. Sure, except the very poor will be eco criminals (due to being unable to maintain their equipment to relevent emission standards/pay the associated offset fees) and will be selectively hounded and exploited by law enforcement.
At least in some jurisdictions, cars old enough (eg 30 years) are considered antiques and are exempted from emissions requirements.
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At least in some jurisdictions, cars old enough (eg 30 years) are considered antiques and are exempted from emissions requirements.
Only if there are very few of them. If there's a critical mass of EV refuseniks in the future they will be banned.
What about the EV unafordaniks?