There's a reason Tesla built the Gigafactory and has a second one coming on line in China. None of the other major western car manufacturers have invested in t

There's a reason Tesla built the Gigafactory and has a second one coming on line in China. None of the other major western car manufacturers have invested in the infrastructure to be able to produce battery packs in volume. There's a lot of lip service being given to electric cars from traditional car makers but none of them can produce electric cars in any meaningful volume, and are realistically years from being able to produce packs by the tens of thousands per month. I guess their take is build the demand and then ramp up production. Then there's the issue insuring a supply of raw materials, Tesla has taken pains to insure they have a long term supply of Lithium, and have all but removed Cobalt from their batteries, which as far as I know is unique to their cells. The other manufacturers are going to have a hard time getting the raw materials in volume when they try to ramp up battery production, unless they've been making moves years ago to insure their supply.