{"id":357978,"date":"2026-07-20T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/geelys-new-ultra-integrated-thunder-drive-unit-exposes-the-myth-of-the-big-battery-pack\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:04:00","slug":"geelys-new-ultra-integrated-thunder-drive-unit-exposes-the-myth-of-the-big-battery-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/geelys-new-ultra-integrated-thunder-drive-unit-exposes-the-myth-of-the-big-battery-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Geely\u2019s new ultra-integrated Thunder drive unit exposes the myth of the big battery pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/geelys-new-ultra-integrated-thunder-drive-unit-exposes-the-myth-of-the-big-battery-pack.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The auto industry&#8217;s obsession with stuffing electric cars with heavy battery packs to fix range anxiety sounds a bit like a lazy engineering shortcut. It seems automakers believe that making an EV heavier is the only way for it to go farther &#8211; an approach that is painfully counterintuitive. Adding weight increases rolling resistance, needs stiffer suspension components, and in&hellip; <a href=https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/geelys_new_ultraintegrated_thunder_drive_unit_exposes_the_myth_of_the_big_battery_pack-news-6084.php target='blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/geelys-new-ultra-integrated-thunder-drive-unit-exposes-the-myth-of-the-big-battery-pack.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The auto industry&#8217;s obsession with stuffing electric cars with heavy battery packs to fix range anxiety sounds a bit like a lazy engineering shortcut. It seems automakers believe that making an EV heavier is the only way for it to go farther &#8211; an approach that is painfully counterintuitive. Adding weight increases rolling resistance, needs stiffer suspension components, and in&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/geelys-new-ultra-integrated-thunder-drive-unit-exposes-the-myth-of-the-big-battery-pack\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":357979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arenaev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}