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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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @03:32PM
Agree with hemocyanin. Headlights are getting too annoying as it is. All it takes is one pair of halogen blue-white super-bright headlines to shine in my eyes and my night vision is gone for a minute or two. I especially hate jacked-up trucks since their headlights are right at eye level for me. Even worse, lots of idiots seem to get a boner from getting right up behind me and shining their headlights in my center mirror while tailgating. I turn my center mirror up these days and let their own headlights blind them. Haven't been tailgated like that since.