Engineering
Decisions, and their bills.
Every choice below makes the car cheaper to own and more expensive to build. That trade is the whole marque, so it is worth stating plainly rather than burying in a brochure.
- 01
Twelve modules, not one pack
The traction battery is twelve independently serviceable modules on a common bus. A degraded module is replaced on its own, at module cost, in about two hours. Nothing is glued.
- 02
One documented bus
Every ECU speaks the same documented CAN dialect. The message catalogue is published, versioned and covered by the same warranty as the hardware.
- 03
Fasteners over adhesive
Structural bonding is used where it must be and nowhere else. If a panel comes off in a car park, it goes back on with a torque wrench rather than a heat gun and a week.
- 04
Software that expires gracefully
If we stop shipping updates, the car keeps every function it shipped with. Nothing is leased, nothing phones home to stay working, nothing switches off because a server was retired.
The cost
A serviceable pack is heavier and dearer than a bonded one — roughly 40kg and a four-figure sum per car. A documented bus means we cannot cut corners in firmware and hope nobody looks.
We think a car you can still fix in year fifteen is worth both. If you disagree, there are cheaper electric cars, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.