| > BEV cars are much simpler to build and use less parts, While this is true, I think it's irrelevant to the consumer that doesn't buy bottom-of-the-range cars. The major reliability pain-points are in the turbo, the automatic transmission and the 4WD, all of which are optional in an ICE car. Yet, the consumers are opting for the more complicated and less reliable cars which have turbo and auto transmissions (and, for SUVs, 4WD). If the consumers cared at all about the complexity and lack of reliability they wouldn't be choosing these options. That consumers have, for ICE cars, chosen the less reliable and more complex drivetrain options, indicates, to me, that the simplicity of a full electric drivetrain is not a selling point. > and the parts that remain are more likely to be standardised and built at enormous scales, pushing prices down. It's quite likely, at least for the lower end of the market, that there will be a standard drive train (battery + motors + management systems) around which a variety of car shells are built. There's nothing about ICE engines that make them any less standardisable than EV drivetrains. If there was any advantage to manufacturers standardising on drivetrains, they would have done so by now. They haven't. Drivetrain standardisation is first prize but it's not going to happen. Right now with ICE vehicles manufacturers are switching to a subscription for things like heated seats, remote-start keyfobs, etc. There's no way in hell that Toyota, BMW, et all are going to use a drivetrain that can be swapped out by the consumer for a non-Toyota/BMW/etc drivetrain. It's in the consumers' best interest that the drivetrains be standardised, but it's in the manufacturers worst interest that the consumer have options. |