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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Well, duh! Now if you go back not too many years, there wasn't any manufacturing capacity for airbags, electronic ignitions, in-car GPS displays... Yet new cars today have them. Must be some sort of magic, eh?
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The thing is it would take time and resources to build that capacity. If doing so doesn't solve in an effective way any of the problems that shifting to BEV's is meant to solve, then why do it?
It would be almost worse than business as usual because it consumes the resources, effort and intellectual capital that has be used to solve the problem(s) without solving it (them).
Change what a car is or substitute for it with alternatives like public transport, telecommuting, HPV's, redesigned cities etc. and it makes the task of building the (lower capacity) battery manufacturing easier and lowers the impact of the ICE vehicles being built in the interim.