The secretly don’t want to manufacture them so they make them look like shit?
Obviously they can be made to look normal, the Ford Lightning & Mach E, Lucid, Polestar, and even a Tesla all look pretty normal and arguably some look really nice. But ask a mainstream manufacturer to make an EV car and they look stupid half the time. The Prius finally doesn’t look like it’s trying to virtue signal with its ugliness, so designs can be improved too.
But ask a mainstream manufacturer to make an EV car and they look stupid half the time.
IMO, it’s probably more that they overdesign them. They want the EV to look futuristic and unique compared to their regular cars, but their cars already look like that to some degree, and so they overcook the design into looking like some science fiction vehicle. Take the Ferrari, for example, they tried to make it have a floating arch where the hood would normally be.
That’s fine for a movie or video game, but in real life, coupled with the practical limits, it just doesn’t look very good.
The Ferrari was designed by Jony Ive. It definitely looks like something he would design. He’s all about clean, minimalist design where everything is utilitarian.
Ferrari as a brand is about beautiful extravagant design in the fastest and least useful vehicles on the planet.
I can’t think of a less synergistic combination that Ferrari and Jony Ive.
Better fits for Jony Ive would be Hyundai, Kia, BMW and Mercedes. Those four are making some ugly ass cars that need to go back to the drawing board.
So much of a brand’s identity can be carried by the grill and headlights. And on an EV, there’s no need for a grill. But just a slab of flat metal looks weird, so they add stuff to break it up.
Drag
The range of an EV is a lot more sensitive to drag than an ICE car.
So in order to reduce the drag, shapes are smoothed out.
Aero efficiency becomes a much bigger priority than looks.
I think you’re right, but optimising for drag is going to change all cars into the same thing. If brands want to retain any kind of identifiable look, they need the engineering to give them some slack.
I Just dont understand why everyone seemingly make EVs ugly on purpose…
The secretly don’t want to manufacture them so they make them look like shit?
Obviously they can be made to look normal, the Ford Lightning & Mach E, Lucid, Polestar, and even a Tesla all look pretty normal and arguably some look really nice. But ask a mainstream manufacturer to make an EV car and they look stupid half the time. The Prius finally doesn’t look like it’s trying to virtue signal with its ugliness, so designs can be improved too.
IMO, it’s probably more that they overdesign them. They want the EV to look futuristic and unique compared to their regular cars, but their cars already look like that to some degree, and so they overcook the design into looking like some science fiction vehicle. Take the Ferrari, for example, they tried to make it have a floating arch where the hood would normally be.
That’s fine for a movie or video game, but in real life, coupled with the practical limits, it just doesn’t look very good.
The Ferrari was designed by Jony Ive. It definitely looks like something he would design. He’s all about clean, minimalist design where everything is utilitarian.
Ferrari as a brand is about beautiful extravagant design in the fastest and least useful vehicles on the planet.
I can’t think of a less synergistic combination that Ferrari and Jony Ive.
Better fits for Jony Ive would be Hyundai, Kia, BMW and Mercedes. Those four are making some ugly ass cars that need to go back to the drawing board.
So, you are Ferrari and you hire the designer of the fucking original translucent iMac.
The Luce is the iFerrari.
That‘s definitely a possibility. People don‘t want futuristic unless maybe it‘s a sports car, and even then it‘s iffy.
Tesla look like poo. Polestar are nicer by a mile but the backwindow is veey EV aesthetic
There’s two big reasons.
No front grill
So much of a brand’s identity can be carried by the grill and headlights. And on an EV, there’s no need for a grill. But just a slab of flat metal looks weird, so they add stuff to break it up.
Drag
The range of an EV is a lot more sensitive to drag than an ICE car.
So in order to reduce the drag, shapes are smoothed out.
Aero efficiency becomes a much bigger priority than looks.
I think you’re right, but optimising for drag is going to change all cars into the same thing. If brands want to retain any kind of identifiable look, they need the engineering to give them some slack.
The front grill isn’t a problem for Ferrari design language. The 296 “grill” is mostly the haunches. An electric 296 would just flatten that out.
Similar story on drag, once you get rid of the mid engine air intake, drag would probably be within respectable drag for EV.
Questions would be about if they want a lot of battery range. This would screw up weight and ride height.
Also completely subjective…
The Ferrari Ev looks sick as do Hyundai’s offerings and hell even the new Prius is pretty cool. (I know it’s a hybrid)
Maybe you just have a really narrow scope of appreciation lol.
The fact that you’re mentioning it in the same sentence as a Hyundai is the problem with the Ferrari design. It just looks like a much cheaper car.
I agree, debates about the ugliness or attractiveness of inanimate objects are very confusing.
I actually really like the look of my Renault Megane E-Tech
Battery could be better, but else I’m really happy with it - and the look of it
Audi has the best looking cars to my eyye, of all the standard person cars. Their EVs are asstastic looking.
I don’t now if I’d call this ugly.
Xiaomi SU7
Up to 1548 Hp…
they’re trying to compete with Renault’s handsome EV designs
The Renault 5 EV is really cool.