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It does have strengths as an approach but the biggest weakness is that you are building to the lowest common denominator across the multiple power train types. Cars that are truly 'born electric' will not be held back by vestigial design endpoints from combustion power trained vehicles.

As electric car design starts veering away from combustion heritage, pure electric designs from the likes of Tesla will venture places that multi-modal compliant designs like BMW won't be able to follow.