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Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future?

posted by janrinok on Sunday January 14 2018, @07:42AM   
from the you-can't-handle-the-future dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Sure looks a lot like your father's Oldsmobile...

Electric cars were supposed to be the future – or at least look like it. So now they're here, why do they still look like ordinary petrol and diesel cars and not dazzling props from a science fiction film.

Before they hit the market and became relatively mainstream, many imagined (or at least, hoped) that electric cars would resemble the Light Runner from Tron: Legacy. After all, without the need for an internal combustion engine, an exhaust system and a fuel tank, electric car designers should have the creative freedom to rip up the rule book and create some truly eye-catching vehicles.

But this hasn't really happened. Park a Renault Zoe next to a Renault Clio, for example, and compare the two. While there are subtle differences and styling cues that suggest the Zoe is electric and the Clio isn't, the overall body form is strikingly similar. In fact, the Zoe is assembled on the same production line as the Clio and Nissan Micra.

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Original Submission

• Re:To ease adoption of course Re:To ease adoption of course (Score: 1) by r_a_trip on Sunday January 14 2018, @08:42PM (5 children)

  by r_a_trip (5276) on Sunday January 14 2018, @08:42PM (#622265)

  Young people become old people really fast. When the big 3 0 approaches, you are no longer "young". After that you'll stay old until you die.

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• Re:To ease adoption of course (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:34PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:34PM (#622299)

  Die young and give all your money to my pension fund.

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• ''Young people become old people'' ''Young people become old people'' (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:47PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:47PM (#622304)

  ...but some of us refuse to ever grow up.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • ''some of us refuse to ever grow up'' ''some of us refuse to ever grow up'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @11:11PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @11:11PM (#622314)

    You moved out of your mother's basement when you buried her in the basement and you moved into your dead mother's room.

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    • ''your mother's basement'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @11:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @11:56PM (#622328)

      You should write movie scripts. Oh, wait. [wikipedia.org]

      Mom's still on this side of the grass, on the other end of the country.
      Her folks lived into their late 80s and she's passed their marks.
      Wouldn't be surprised if she outlived us all.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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    • Re:''some of us refuse to ever grow up'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @12:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @12:57AM (#622342)

      Sure Norman, sure.

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