[Demiurge2]

Why do all electric cars look even more alike than SUVs?

[Red Badger]

Form follows function...........................

[ThunderSleeps]

I was just thinking the same thing. The Tesla, that Chinese one that was posted about here yesterday, this one. Even the Leaf and the Bolt look a lot like these.

I get it, all the design teams are trying to solve the same set of problems with similar constraints, capabilities, and priorities but come on. There's got to be something more to set these apart than do you want your LED headlights to slant up, down, or be round...

[oldplayer]

“Why do all electric cars look even more alike than SUVs?”

If this is not rhetorical, then we could speculate:

1. Front is “grill-less” because there is a lack of any need for cooling air getting to a radiator;

2. Aerodynamics demand some roundness at both front and rear;

3. Current fashion;

4. Lack of risk taking on management’s part and the designers;

5. Add your own possibilities . . .

I agree that it is an apparent fact.

[T.B. Yoits]

Why do all electric cars look even more alike than SUVs?

Because companies outsource more and more. The same adherents to a design go from one to another. "If we could sell it to GM, we can sell it to Chrysler." (Or reverse like the Chrysler PT Cruiser and the Chevy HHR).

[Celerity]

Government mandates. I used to call it regulations but now it’s all mandates.

That’s why every car looks the same too and why everything is going to suv shapes.

The governments (all of them) put up so many rules that they dictate how something is going to work. And what engine it gets. And seating.

[FrankRizzo890]

Because in an electric car aerodynamics are even MORE critical to get to/maintain that range that people expect.

[ctdonath2]