This decision will ripple through the entire EV ecosystem. If Japan blocks BYD, expect other developed nations to follow suit. Could be a watershed moment for how Western and Asian markets treat Chinese EV manufacturers going forward.
For anyone interested in the physics, the contact stress calculations on gear teeth at 90-degree angles are genuinely complex. Finite element analysis has been a game-changer for optimizing these designs.
The real question is why didn’t Callaway push this achievement more? They had something incredible and it basically got lost to history. Bugatti marketed the Veyron brilliantly, but Callaway seemed to let their achievement slide.