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Economies of scale abd pre existing spare part warehousing | JIT production.

IIRC correctly this was mainly Tesla EV's (?) which hard a high cost of replacement parts | long waiting times.

Some of the other EV models are better situated re: spares and legacy gas vehicles have decades of replacement part infrastructure already in place.

> Also, Tesla should theoretically lasts for million miles while gas vehicles rarely go beyond 2k.

Here in Australia all our family cars since the 1980s have had at least 600,000 km on the clock before being sold on (a couple hit one million km).




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