{"id":183780,"date":"2024-02-27T07:28:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/electrification-leads-to-all-wheel-drive-dominance"},"modified":"2024-02-27T07:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:28:19","slug":"electrification-leads-to-all-wheel-drive-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/electrification-leads-to-all-wheel-drive-dominance","title":{"rendered":"Electrification Leads To All-Wheel-Drive Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrification-leads-to-all-wheel-drive-dominance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When analyzing the all-electric vehicle (EV) market, we have noticed that the segment shifted towards all-wheel-drive (AWD) powertrains. The front-wheel-drive (FWD) and rear-wheel-drive (RWD) models are in the minority.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t always like that though. Between 2010 and 2013, there were only single-motor FWD and RWD models on the market. Things changed in the 2014 model year when <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/\">Tesla<\/a> introduced a dual-motor AWD version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/model-s\/\">Model S<\/a> (85D).<\/p>\n<p>In the 2015 model year, Tesla expanded the dual-motor family to a few versions (about a quarter of all versions on the market, at the time), and then doubled the AWD lineup with the newly launched <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/model-x\/\">Model X<\/a> in the 2016 model year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When analyzing the all-electric vehicle (EV) market, we have noticed that the segment shifted towards all-wheel-drive (AWD) powertrains. The front-wheel-drive (FWD) and rear-wheel-drive (RWD) models are in the minority. It wasn\u2019t always like that though. Between 2010 and 2013, there were only single-motor FWD and RWD models on the market. Things changed in the 2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}