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Yep, each manufacturer makes at least one battery platform, and customizes it as much as the need for their vehicles. Rivian used one “platform” for the R1T and R1S, but made changes for the gen2 R1 (the gen2 large pack is a lot smaller then gen1, and gen2 adds a almost entirely different LFP...

Scout already has a way to combat range anxiety: the harvester. It doesn’t require building a network of battery swap stations, or designing (part of?) the Scout’s battery to be easily swappable (including the cooling system being able to deal with removal of part of the pack and thus some of...

Because they think it is cool? Or because all their friends do and they aren’t self confident enough to buy what they need and not what their friends bought? Or they need the truck bed for ply wood or loads of dirt/junk, but won’t ever tow a trailer. Over half of pickup truck owners never...

Rivian doesn't have one, and I don’t want one, but that doesn’t mean that VW doesn’t want one! Either because some VP likes them, or they did a customer focus group and have decided that potential Scout purchasers are “late EV adopters and don’t want to have a phone work like a key, and having...

I think some day we might have half a dozen for some common sets of tradeoffs, but not anytime soon.

Tesla lets you use the interior camera while in dog mode to look at your dog. I think it also shows it is in dog mode and the current temperature in the app. Rivian tells you it is in dog mode via the app and the current temp. (same for “hold” mode for the HVAC), but doesn’t let you look at...

You market to people’s aspirations, not needs. Maybe 80% never tow or go off road, but of that 80% most of them “want to be able to”. I both tow and go off road in my current EV. Granted “going off road” is generally on grass, and towing is mostly a utility trailer full of trees, furniture...

There is not. Battery packs have a large number of tradeoffs. Cost, weigh, physical size, cooling requirements, maximum charge speed, and longevity for example, plus multiple ways to manage individual cells with lower maximum voltages or other borderline issues. You can make a battery pack...

Solid state batteries currently only exist in small quantities, nobody has developed a process to make them at large scale or inexpensively. Honda has been talking about how they will have them “in two years” for at least 5 years. They have been a hot research topic for 3 decades. We are...