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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
In ANY manufacturing process, the MORE units that are made, the lower the cost per unit. When E-vehicles are made in numbers equal to Internal Combustion numbers, THEN because of fewer parts for the EV, the EV costs will be LOWER.
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I know that is a general principal but is that ALWAYS true? Do we know that the components of batteries have a lower cost per unit as they increase, or might they be a scarce resource that increasing demand without the ability to easily increase supply would in fact increase the price per unit? Like TVs, cars and trucks as computer chips became scarce in the recent past? Or maybe the cost per unit actually increases until such time as a completely seperate supply chain has to be developed and some time down the road, who knows how far, the cost per unit MAY come down?