With the amount of bureaucratic things that go on with cars that’s practically an impossibility. My 2016 has to pass ODB-II emissions testing every year…there is no retrofitting anything into that.
Not to mention the adoption of EV’s. The best scenario is to force a group like IEEE or an industry wide group of companies to adopt design standards for everything they can. If individual battery packs could be made in a few different configurations then rebuilding the entire pack or swapping out a single failing one would be vastly cheaper and easier than all the custom designed stuff now. Power inverters and motors should have standard inputs/outpus and controls. That’s not to say there isn’t room for any car company to add their own special sauce to things, but the components themselves should be standard off the shelf parts so to speak.
Even in the current ICE world there are way too many configurations of individual parts. We don’t need to go back to sealed beam headlights, but there doesn’t need to be 20 different varieties of the same physical alternator either.
