New battery tech takes a long time to being to market. Once an innovation is shown to be viable in a lab, there's a long gauntlet of stress tests to run--differ

New battery tech takes a long time to being to market. Once an innovation is shown to be viable in a lab, there's a long gauntlet of stress tests to run--different operating loads under different environmental conditions. There's no market surprise to be had that's going to catch your competitors off-guard. > Electric cars are very easy to build when compared to IC cars. As I commented above, I recommend reading about the development of the Volt and Bolt at GM. They had a huge learning curve: > Nearly everything changes when you opt for a fundamentally different power train, so GM’s greatest advantage—more than a century of experience building cars—was all but moot. https://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-electric-car-chevy-bolt-mary-barra/ https://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-electric-car-chevy-bolt-mar...