The issue I have is many designers make their evs look radically different simply to be different. As if people buy an EV so they can shout to everyone “look at me”.
There’s that. I tend to give EVs a lot of leeway to be different though, because of two reasons: The function of vehicles in society needs to be shaken up a lot, and the underlying technology of an EV is so different from a combustion vehicle. Form and function are necessarily in flux, so I think the real folly would be to carry on with the design assumptions that have gotten us here, at least not without a critical eye. Things like passenger and road safety have come a long way in a century so some things deserve to stay (looking at you, Cybertruck) but there’s a lot of room for new ideas in this space too.
The issue I have is many designers make their evs look radically different simply to be different. As if people buy an EV so they can shout to everyone “look at me”.
There’s that. I tend to give EVs a lot of leeway to be different though, because of two reasons: The function of vehicles in society needs to be shaken up a lot, and the underlying technology of an EV is so different from a combustion vehicle. Form and function are necessarily in flux, so I think the real folly would be to carry on with the design assumptions that have gotten us here, at least not without a critical eye. Things like passenger and road safety have come a long way in a century so some things deserve to stay (looking at you, Cybertruck) but there’s a lot of room for new ideas in this space too.