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Meanwhile, automakers had been dismantling some of the biggest barriers to entering the business. To lower production costs, the Big Three had outsourced much of their parts manufacturing over the past 25 years. An upstart could buy just about everything it needed to mass-produce a car from independent suppliers. A fledgling electric car company had other advantages, too: Tighter emissions standards have raised the cost of developing gas-powered cars, and buyers of low-emission vehicles are lured by big tax break
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I will agree with that. But my point is, how much energy is used to create the electric motors and the 6,831 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, and what is the life expectancy of those batteries?
Its a nice looking car, BTW.