"I want a future where someone can go to a junkyard and yank a motor from a Tesla Model H (you know, the one with the T-top) and plan to pop it into their Reatta EV knowing that the connections will fit."
There's no market for that capability in cars. Some heavy trucks do have it; you can buy some heavy trucks and put in a Cummins or Caterpillar Diesel engine. But for smaller cars, it's not worth the headaches.
Powertrain switches are not impossible. A routine student exercise in serious automotive schools is to put an engine and transmission from one car into another car, making the necessary parts. Stanford and Renovo put an electric powertrain into a DeLorean and made it capable of autonomous drifting.[1]
Even in PCs, there's no market for that. 80% of desktop PCs are never opened during their operating life, and the fraction for laptops is probably lower.
There's no market for that capability in cars. Some heavy trucks do have it; you can buy some heavy trucks and put in a Cummins or Caterpillar Diesel engine. But for smaller cars, it's not worth the headaches.
Powertrain switches are not impossible. A routine student exercise in serious automotive schools is to put an engine and transmission from one car into another car, making the necessary parts. Stanford and Renovo put an electric powertrain into a DeLorean and made it capable of autonomous drifting.[1]
Even in PCs, there's no market for that. 80% of desktop PCs are never opened during their operating life, and the fraction for laptops is probably lower.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIDcT0Zdj4