GM CEO Fritz Henderson said recently that “range anxiety” will be a hindrance to the adoption of electric cars, according to the website, gm-volt.com.
“Everybody is trying to solve the problem of range because we have range anxiety,” Henderson said. “The consumer doesn’t want to be strained. We had the same problem with the EV1, not enough range.”
Henderson added that cost of EVs is paramount to consumers.
“The three things you need are battery costs coming down, motor costs coming down, control costs coming down,” he said during an interview with The Washington Post.
The debate over unintended acceleration, having lingered around the periphery of the auto industry for more than two decades, may be about to receive a fatal blow.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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