Ford's electric F-150 Lightning and Lamborghini's planned electric supercar are completely unsuited to the electric age.
When a Lamborghini designer makes an electric family car…
It’s like taking a horse and cart and replacing the horse with a gas-powered robot instead of inventing the car. Electric cars need to be lightweight, and personal urban vehicles don’t need four seats, 20 cup holders or a top speed of 200 mph. On the other hand, maybe these extreme EVs will convince diehard petrolheads to go electric.
"There is no engine under the hood of an electric F-150. It's a warehouse now," urban planner Gil Meslin said on Twitter. "There is no reason, other than style over safety, not to modify the front end to reduce the blind spot and make it less deadly in the event of a collision with a human body."
First, there’s a perfectly practical reason that big electric cars don’t work as well as small ones. Gasoline has insane energy density. Just a few gallons can power a small car for hundreds of miles. It’s this storage efficiency, along with cheap gasoline in the U.S., that has fueled the rise of today’s big, gas-hungry cars.
