With the batteries below the floor pan, the car's centre of gravity has been lowered, which improves handling.

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Unibody construction, in which a vehicle's roof, door frames and floor pan are part of a unified, rigid structure, has made vehicles lighter and stiffer.

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The lithium-ion batteries are liquid cooled and packaged in a 4-inch thick slab that covers the entire floor pan of the car for a low center of gravity and a near 50-50 weight distribution.

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The onions will have shrunk from a pile that threatened mutiny to the stovetop to a huddled mass that doesn't even cover the floor of the pan.

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We sit cross-legged on the floor as coffee beans roast in a pan over an open fire.

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