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The industry already knows how to build electric cars at scale. You can buy one tomorrow if want. Automakers redesign their models every ten years or so already
by Gibbon1 3y ago
The industry already knows how to build electric cars at scale. You can buy one tomorrow if want. Automakers redesign their models every ten years or so already. Plus a lot of the assembles are exactly the same as gasoline cars. Thing structural changes to support the electric motor and battery, that all sheet metal. If there is anything those guys know it's stamping and spot welding sheet metal.
And as I said above the trade publications as opposed to the fish wrap press all show that the transition is something everyone in the industry is planning for. There are something like 17 large battery manufacturing plants planned or being build right now for instance. Just in the US alone.
- nradov 3y agoThose battery plants aren't going to be enough, especially not by 2025. But the bigger obstacle is charging infrastructure. It just takes a lot of time to build that out, which is why those deadlines will inevitably be pushed back.