Motors and Controllers; Why So Expensive
As I have been looking at electric vehicles, it appears that there are couple foundational issues keeping the rest of us from being able to get into electric vehicles. They have to do with the cost. I can't imagine many people being able to buy a fifty-thousand dollar electric vehicle from some major manufacturer, especially when it only goes fifty miles on a charge. On the other hand, I can imagine many people, even in the lower, poor working-class, who can build their own. That is, if they can afford and obtain the parts. There lies the rub.
So we have two very important questions:
1. Since we have been using and perfecting AC motors for over one hundred years (since started by Tesla at least), why are automotive-use AC motors so expensive?
2. Why are the controllers for them also so expensive?
Please address your answers to these two questions alone. And thank you for your input.
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