https://www.motortrend.com/news/mid-eng ... 2A13124821
We have heard this before but it is being repeated so it may be legit. I don't know if the car is a higher voltage system (like 42 or 48V). The higher voltage is something we have been told is coming for like 10 years. The reasons for it are sort of twofold but it is the same basic reason: to enable higher power electronics and electrical devices, but also to lower the current on ANY electrical or electronic device. A 48V device uses 4x less current than a 12V device to do the same thing. That allows thinner wire to be used which reduces weight and cost.
Fairly inconclusive.According to a new report from Hagerty, the mid-engine Corvette has been held up for three reasons. The first matches an earlier rumor we'd heard, which is that development engineers are having a hard time working out all the bugs in the car's electrical system.
This is the real news.The second is that the design team is still fighting with the development engineers over some unspecified issue. Hagerty theorizes it may be related to visibility, ergonomics, or possibly cabin layout, but it can't say for sure.
We've had computer-based simulation, FEA and other technologies for literally multiple decades. It is REALLY hard to imagine that any mechanical engineer would be unable to predict that a frame can or cannot handle an amount of twisting force based on reaction to the car putting down power. Very interested in more info here. This isn't hot-rodding in the 1950s.The third issue, however, might be the most interesting. Supposedly, the mid-engine Corvette's chassis can't handle the power of its near-1,000-hp twin-turbo V-8. Hagerty says its source claims the twist from the engine in at least one prototype bent the spaceframe enough to break the glass in the rear hatch. Assuming that's true, the car's launch should absolutely be delayed, but we can't help wondering if GM strategically leaked the rumor that the top-trim C8 is just too powerful in order to distract from the other issues.