I’ve never seen an ICE car need two engines to drive all four wheels. Why do EVs need 2 motors? Wouldn’t a transmission be cheaper than another motor?
I’ve never seen an ICE car need two engines to drive all four wheels. Why do EVs need 2 motors? Wouldn’t a transmission be cheaper than another motor?
In addition to the 8 million good reasons the others gave you, I’ll add you avoid all the typical AWD tire nonsense of replacing all 4 at a time, or ensuring the diameter of each tire is within a few 32nds of an inch of each other (I’m looking at you Subaru!)
EV motors are relatively cheap and crazy efficient. Two separate motors is the better way to do this. (Or, honestly, if it wasn’t, why do you think hundreds or thousands of automotive engineers all chose this solution rather than just mimicking the way it’s done on ICE cars?)