Complexity in basic cars: SEAT Ateca SUV has 2.2 km of wire, 100 sensors and control units

Green Car Congress
By mmillikinFeb 24, 2019, 5:00 am408 pts
Cars have been evolving with increasingly complex circuitry. SEAT’s Ateca crossover (SEAT is a Volkswagen Group company, the Ateca is based on the MQB platform and is related to Volkswagen’s Tiguan) features a complex arrangement of wires more than 2.2 km long. The wires, ranging from one millimeter to one…

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