Vehicle Electrification

**This post contains affiliate links and the publisher may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on these links.**   In the earlier parts of this series we covered innovations in automotive that don't impact vehicle manufacturing directly, but now we switch gears to one of the largest changes to automotive design in one hundred years: phasing out the internal combustion engine in favor of electric power, and not just doing it in one model or for one make; but electrification of the entire fleet. What is Fleet Electrification? Fleet electrification refers to the move industry-wide (manufacturer by manufacturer) away from using internal combustion engines that require gasoline or diesel fuel towards designing and building vehicles that use only batteries or fuel cells, potentially with an interim step where the vehicle lineup consists of all hybrids and electric-only vehicles.  Obviously, a single model having an electric propulsion system (either all electric or hybrid) isn't new: the first Toyota Prius was introduced 20...
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