Tesla's first car wasn't really an electric car. In fact, the original Tesla Roadster was essentially a gasoline car converted to an electric car. Many OEMs had tried and failed to convert gasoline to electric. Tesla quickly realized this and set out to make a platform designed specifically for electric vehicles.
Tesla Model S uses the "skateboard" design concept. As you can see from the pictures, the chassis looks like a skateboard, and the battery is located inside the skateboard, lower than the body of the car. This frees up cabin space and creates a balanced center of gravity. Many other automakers are now using similar concepts to produce electric vehicles.
Based on information revealed at Tesla's Battery Day and confirmed during the company's third-quarter 2020 earnings call, Tesla may abandon the skateboard design in the future and instead plan to put its new 4680 battery cells inside a structural pack. Basically, the frame of the car is also its battery pack.
In a recent conference call, Jefferies analyst Philippe Houchois specifically asked Elon Musk if the Tesla skateboard platform would be "retired." Musk admitted that it will become "obsolete" in the future. However, the process of moving all vehicles to a new structural platform will take years.
Musk compared this evolution to that of aircraft, showing it as a necessary and natural progression: Rockets and aircraft used to have a separate shell to hold the fuel tank, but now it is integrated into the wing.
Now that many other automakers are just starting to produce clean electric vehicles with a skateboard design, will they make the switch like Tesla?
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