And now here was a company, Renault, saying go do an electric car, and very few people had done a full electric car at that time. Twohig says that the two disciplines are remarkably closely aligned: “What you’re interested in with an electric car is efficiency, minimising all of the resistance. We’ve created an environmental problem, about which many people can speak more eloquently than I, but we’ve also created a problem of serious congestion in the major cities of the world. These are not Silicon Valley dreamers, these are car folks, who know how hard it is to do a car, never mind an electric car, and that very much reassures me. “Plus, a lot of car companies, and a lot of start-up car companies, seriously underestimate just how much money you need to build a car.

Source: The Irish Times April 26, 2018 05:48 UTC