jhm
Well-Known Member
I love that Tesla aspires to make manufacturing one of their core strengths. I think it's becoming abundantly clear that the advancement of EVs about much more than just the declining cost and improving performance of batteries. Battery tech is critically important, but so to is discovering every little and big way to produce the whole vehicle with utmost efficiency. While ICE makers may have gone a long ways optimizes every detail of ICEV manufacturing, EVs optimize around around a quite different architecture. Traditional auto makers really do not have much experience optimizing the design and manufacture of EVs. Even if Tesla were to hand their own battery cells to other auto makers, they would no know how to make best use of it. So it's not just the battery tech. It's not something that some auto parts supplier can provide to an auto maker. It's the whole damn EV that must be optimized.