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Originally Posted by Lubicon
I wonder if we will see automakers go the way of aircraft makers whereby individual component systems will be supplied by 3rd party vendors and vehicle manufactures will concentrate on assembly and only a few key components? No aircraft manufacturer builds it's own engines, or avionics systems.
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This is almost the way out is in vehicle manufacturing. There are tens of thousands of third party vendors for most of what makes every car.
Where the disruption is coming is precisely this area. A combustion engine has hundreds if not thousands. An electric motor has a couple dozen parts. This will put potentially millions it of work as many smaller businesses make these parts and supply them to the automobile industry