If battery costs decrease to half of present costs, say e.g. $10k down to $5k, the vehicle cost should decrease by $5k. Saying it won't due to "complex electronics" means the costs of those electronics would have to increase from their present cost to eat up part or all of that $5k.
I think either that is a smoke screen to cover up the fact that the car companies plan to add most of that $5k to their margins and not pass it on to consumers, or maybe the method used to reduce costs will be to loosen the specs for cells so they are not as closely matched in capacity and ir (increasing manufacturing yield), and this requires a more complex bms than the big manufacturers presently use - moving more toward a Tesla type pack. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Pack-prices-likely-to-plummet-halve-the-cost-within-6yrs-tp4665474p4665483.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
