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Originally Posted by jammies
Making an ICE vehicle has few points of commonality with building an EV. It is disruptive technology, it's entirely possible some or even most legacy auto manufacturers will die off, be bought out or merged. Besides Tesla, there is nothing stopping other companies with relevant knowledge from starting up their own EV divisions. It is chips, software, and batteries that are needed, not powertrains, engines and yearly model updates.
Googlecar, here we come!
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While EV has less parts and hence less production challenges, it's still not that easy to just stand up a car manufacturing at scale. Tesla learned it the hard way, but it seems like they have figured it out.