My best source was a first-hand account from a business owner who tried to switch from one-off EV projects to an a full-blown assembly line. He called up a few

My best source was a first-hand account from a business owner who tried to switch from one-off EV projects to an a full-blown assembly line. He called up a few manufacturers and they basically told him to come back when he's at the scale of hundreds of MWh - sort of a chicken-and-egg scenario. Retailers didn't want to talk about special pricing, regardless of scale.