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by nwh 4711 days ago
It's a microcontroller, a hub driven motor and a lead acid battery. You could probably churn these out quite cheaply if you so desires.
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The whole is more than the sum of the parts. The first Mustang off the line costs millions of dollars, but not because that car has millions of dollars of parts in it rather because making the car is more than just bolting the steel together.

These guys didn't grab an Arduino from Amazon and wire it to a pawn shop unicycle.

LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate), not lead acid