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World Congress 2023 • Aug 11, 2023

Building a hypercar from scratch

David Romić

How do you build a 2000-horsepower electric hypercar? You abandon traditional supply chains completely. Instead, you write custom embedded code and engineer a billion-dollar architecture from scratch.

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#1 about 5 min

Evolving from a garage startup to massive hypercar manufacturer

Evolving from a small garage team into a massive organization enabled the creation of cutting-edge electric performance vehicles.

#2 about 2 min

Establishing joint ventures and breaking electric vehicle acceleration records

Demonstrating rapid acceleration and dominant performance secured strategic partnerships with major historic automotive groups.

#3 about 3 min

Bypassing traditional automotive supply chains for custom hardware components

Building proprietary hardware elements natively in-house avoided the extreme costs and integration challenges posed by external automotive suppliers.

#4 about 3 min

Designing bespoke electromechanical vehicle systems without structural cabin compromises

Engineering customized hardware platforms tightly controlled interconnected vehicle features without sacrificing necessary geometric cabin space.

#5 about 3 min

Scaling software teams and reusing foundational microcontroller chip architectures

Optimizing overall development time required deploying a unified software stack and identical microcontroller models across varied vehicle modules.

#6 about 2 min

Addressing automotive mission-critical safety in embedded software development

Enforcing strict initial architectural decisions prevented unacceptable system faults and ensured absolute reliability for potentially lethal high-speed passenger conditions.

#7 about 3 min

Testing experimental distributed vehicle prototypes and validating ignition sequences

Networking modular hardware components successfully executed a highly complex distributed electric vehicle ignition and boot protocol.

#8 about 2 min

Shifting toward centralized automotive computing networks for future cars

Adopting entirely consolidated data infrastructure concepts promises to eliminate the synchronization failures endemic to heavily decentralized processing configurations.

#9 about 3 min

Selecting specific microcontrollers and fundamental programming languages for powertrains

Managing high-voltage propulsion securely necessitated adhering to rigorously compliant automotive-grade silicon and foundational languages like embedded C.

#10 about 3 min

Building proprietary automotive software ecosystems entirely in-house from scratch

Developing complete bare-metal code bases natively resolved the severe commercial complications associated with restrictive third-party car operating system licenses.

#11 about 3 min

Implementing automotive ethernet and connected remote vehicle telemetry applications

Replacing legacy serial standards with modern broadband networking linked robust internal telemetry logging tools seamlessly to commercial companion apps.

#12 about 4 min

Certifying safety-critical automotive software and deploying progressive testing strategies

Validating intricate code mechanics extensively across iterative hardware-in-the-loop server rigs thoroughly eliminated catastrophic physical risks prior to live vehicle testing operations.

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