That is part of it, from a more insider perspective, most companies production and design got put on cruise control because of all the covid BS, then slack-from-home helped finish it off.
What's happen to all these engines is two fold, one fold is what you said, smaller size, turbo, extremely thin oil. The other fold is lack of oversight that led to problems, then that same lack of oversight led to problems that continued WAY longer than they should have.
The main reason we're are hearing about them now is the method of failure. Engines, for the most part, used to fail from ring/piston failures which caused catastrophic compression loss which lead to break downs.
There is no regulation against making shitty engines. There are, however, rules against shitty engines that shot piston/rods out the side of the block in an explosion that leads to a complete failure.
Most of these newer cars are suffering from improper crank and/or rod bearing designs that are blasting the piston and/rod through the block. Still more of a "shitty motor" issue BUT that failure method has a very high likelihood of creating a fire. That, in the other hand, is a big problem in the eyes of regulators.
THAT is why you're hearding about these engines failures so much. Everyone is having them, even Toyota trucks have been having engines failure far beyond what they used to.
These companies are going to have to spread these EV losses through cost cutting and/or poorly developed products for years so it will probably get worse before it gets better.
CAFE standards are a HUGE deal in the auto industry, especially the in the normal "commuter" type vehicles.
The larger aspect of this that is far less covered is that companies that didn't meet fuel economy standards on either full fleet or an individual model (usually performance cars that couldn't pass standards emissions) were allowed to "purchase" carbon credits from manufacturers making "eco friendly" cars (think Tesla) to help offset their transgressions.
That's part of the reason that this Trump administration EV kill shot hurts so bad. Everyone knew about the tax credits but the REAL money came from the carbon credits being horse traded by companies found to make "ethical" products. Complete socialism of the industry.
Its also part of the reason you haven't seen many sport cars in the last 10 years, costs too much money to do between R/D, crash safety, and carbon credits and why the EV companies are dropping like flies.
That is part of it, from a more insider perspective, most companies production and design got put on cruise control because of all the covid BS, then slack-from-home helped finish it off.
What's happen to all these engines is two fold, one fold is what you said, smaller size, turbo, extremely thin oil. The other fold is lack of oversight that led to problems, then that same lack of oversight led to problems that continued WAY longer than they should have.
The main reason we're are hearing about them now is the method of failure. Engines, for the most part, used to fail from ring/piston failures which caused catastrophic compression loss which lead to break downs.
There is no regulation against making shitty engines. There are, however, rules against shitty engines that shot piston/rods out the side of the block in an explosion that leads to a complete failure.
Most of these newer cars are suffering from improper crank and/or rod bearing designs that are blasting the piston and/rod through the block. Still more of a "shitty motor" issue BUT that failure method has a very high likelihood of creating a fire. That, in the other hand, is a big problem in the eyes of regulators.
THAT is why you're hearding about these engines failures so much. Everyone is having them, even Toyota trucks have been having engines failure far beyond what they used to.
These companies are going to have to spread these EV losses through cost cutting and/or poorly developed products for years so it will probably get worse before it gets better.
Thanks for the details. I assume this was done to make them more fuel efficient?
CAFE standards are a HUGE deal in the auto industry, especially the in the normal "commuter" type vehicles.
The larger aspect of this that is far less covered is that companies that didn't meet fuel economy standards on either full fleet or an individual model (usually performance cars that couldn't pass standards emissions) were allowed to "purchase" carbon credits from manufacturers making "eco friendly" cars (think Tesla) to help offset their transgressions.
That's part of the reason that this Trump administration EV kill shot hurts so bad. Everyone knew about the tax credits but the REAL money came from the carbon credits being horse traded by companies found to make "ethical" products. Complete socialism of the industry.
Its also part of the reason you haven't seen many sport cars in the last 10 years, costs too much money to do between R/D, crash safety, and carbon credits and why the EV companies are dropping like flies.
I've heard of the carbon credits being purchased but forgot about them,
We need to do away with all this crap.