Electric cars don't need ICE engine layouts. It will take a few years until the designers realise they can have cars looking much different as they have more flexibility.
I also have hope this truck on the roads will get manufacturers doing something different. Concept cars at car shows should be where we should look first.
I’m thinking about it and even with EVs you’d still want four wheels, want to put the battery flat on the bottom for various reasons. So the base seems like it’s four wheels with a flat platform.
Building space for 1-6 people on top thought and I seem to arrive at the same designs that already exist. Thoughts?
The reality is the current designs (tear shaped, front engine, forward facing seats with belts) are result of slow incremental perfections. Safety, fuel efficiency being two biggest drivers (pun intended!). The biggest external factor being the infrastructure (you might have the greatest idea for next personal transportation vehicle) but if it doesnt use roads its pretty much dead .
So people complaining have no idea what they really want. Like Ford said “If I would have asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”.
I recommend anyone interested in the reshaping of EVs for the future take a look at Volvo's "Future of design" video from a couple years back:
But what else would you change?
I'm not sure there's as much scope for flexibility as you think. Maybe when self-driving cars are common and very safe, internal seat layouts could change a bit. That seems a long way off though.