It seems odd to me that most, if not all, electric vehicles don’t put individual drive motors at each wheel.
It’d seem like doing so would be a more efficient transfer of energy from the electrical generation / storage system to propelling the vehicle than having centralized drives like IC-based cars.
Or maybe they do, and it just isn’t obvious?
It’s probably a cost trade-off; in the case of the AWD Teslas, it’s probably cheaper to fit two larger motors, differentials, and traction control goodies than it is to fit four smaller motors.
I suppose that probably is the case
Maybe I’m just too much a fan of fewer parts 🙂