[nyokodo]

> Most of a car outside of ICE/EV differences are the same inputs, same supply chain.

It is an obvious statement that where they’re the same they have the same supply chain.

> The input supply chain for batteries is pretty simple

EV battery supply chains are the most complex out of all inputs for both classes of car other than microchips. There are many countries including highly geopolitically complicated ones like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia that provide vital material inputs.

> it has mechanical and electromechanical and electronic parts in profusion

Fuel injectors are older and simpler tech and have nowhere near as complicated a supply chain as EV batteries.