Beyond infrastructure, the problematic scenario is to offer a $40K electric version of a $25K gas car, which is worth $15K one year later while the gas car is still worth $20K.
The challenge to 'Detroit' as we know it is Silicon Valley. Tesla isn't going away, and Faraday and Apple and Uber are sitting on piles of cash.
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Well, which is progressing faster, gas\hybrid or battery technology?
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Gas/hybrid has no headroom because the gas side is already highly evolved, and the electric side depends on .... battery technology.
Waiting for the nano-scale fractal quantum-dot metamaterial electrodes and solid state electrolytes. That oughta do it.