I was really surprised that you didn't cover hyper local open source conversions. Not only would they save a huge amount of resources by reusing the frames that we already have in existence in every small town, but it would increase repairability and help build the skills to repair these vehicles that we need across the country, not just in manufacturing centers.
And those shops are not putting in new crap to track everything. I bet they also take out the existing privacy invading crap. That's what I want to do.
@@transportevolvedcan't wait. Hope you can call out some shops, training facilities, etc... Hope that video adds some flywheel effect to that space. I want to be their customer.
And yet, there are many programs at community colleges around the world where people get to learn new skills - including automotive technician programs - regardless of age, background, or sex.
Great insight! However, I don't think EVs are more complicated to manufacture than ICE cars. Yes, you have to set up battery pack and electric motor manufacturing but I think that manufacture of IC engines and transmissions is much more complicated. In addition, electric motors and battery packs are easily outsourced to distributed production. It's much easier to manufacture an electric motor than an IC engine or transmission with thousands of precision parts. Check out Edison motors and Deboss garage for people doing small scale distributed EV manufacture. In addition San Francisco based Telo is looking to manufacture a small truck.
Arrival was founded in 2014 by Russian billionaire Denis Sverdlov. The company planned to use small, "micro-factories" to build electric vans, buses, and taxis. In 2021, Arrival was valued at $15 billion and listed on the Nasdaq, making it the biggest initial stock market listing for a UK tech company at the time, today it's out of business.
Thanks, Agree the sentiment. The main issue is beneath the skin EVs are very different from ICEVs. It is no surprise manufacturers that have had most success in this sector are relative newcomers, unencumbered by having to leverage legacy production processes.
The EU has high tariffs against China, but the current US tariffs are something like double that. It’s already frustrating to see that, while European brands are selling new EVs in the $25k price range, the cheapest we can hope for in the US is *maybe* something a little under $40k.
Yep, pick one, "Cheap affordable small EVs" or "Manufactured in the US EVs" working "smarter" won't get you both. Since labor and environmental costs are much higher in the US than in Mexico, it will always be more expensive to build in the US and any "smart" manufacturing innovations can be applied to foreign factories to lower costs there too.
@@BubbaBearsFriendSo build them in Mexico where we have a trade agreement with. With that said, EV's are super simple to manufacture. There are no conplex combustion engines or complicated transmissions and all their accompanying parts and mechanisms required for them to work at all. And EV, in it's most basic form, is just a battery and a simple motor. An ICE vehicle has around 30,000 parts, while an EV has less than 2,000. Just like flat panel televisions are multitudes cheaper to manufacture with no need for a finicky and massive picture tube and all it's requirements, so are EV's so much cheaper to manufacture at scale. A 32" picture tube TV cost $700 a quarter century ago with only 480 lines of resolutions. Whereas a 50" flat panel TV with multitudes higher resolution of 4K, costs less than $200 today, even after a quarter century of inflation. Why? Because they're so much cheaper to manufacture. So yes, as long as you keep job busting union leaders out of there, they'll be cheap to build in America. Especially with more and more automation cutting out humans that can fall for union leader tricks.
EV's are super simple to manufacture. There are no conplex combustion engines or complicated transmissions and all their accompanying parts and mechanisms required for them to work at all. And EV, in it's most basic form, is just a battery and a simple motor. An ICE vehicle has around 30,000 parts, while an EV has less than 2,000.
This video preaches socialism. This video is an OP-ED (opinion editorial) on socialism. YT has videos explaining what socialism is. Remember, TE is ant-capitalist. Three countries that practiced socialism are USSR (now defunct), North Korea, and Maoist China. For a lay person, a communist state is a socialist state run by one party. Everyone should read up or understand what socialism is. Like I said before, there are videos in the YT domain that explains it better. This video is a prime example of socialism. When talking about LOCAL manufacturing options, we are talking about COLLECTIVES. Make no mistake about it. It would be appropo to say well done, Comrade Nikki for describing a COLLECTIVE. Here’s definition of Socialism (New Oxford American Dictionary): a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole: "we want a real democratic and pluralist left party-one which unites all those who believe in socialism" ▪ policy or practice based on the political and economic theory of socialism: "the debate over whether to move away from free markets and toward socialism" ▪ (in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism: "socialism is the first stage of the worldwide transition to communism"
Not only does the local consumer pay the tarrif, lets discuss where that money goes; it goes to the government imposing the tarrif. So as the US taxes, i mean, tarrifs, everything from China by at least 10% and Canada and Mexico by at least 20%, Americans pay that hidden tax, the Federal government pockets it with one hand and issues the rich tax breaks with the other hand... All while not incentivizing any development worth doing... The only question is will this policy last 4 years, or forever? Cant recall any kings in history reducing tax for the "mob". Or stepping down.. When the billionaires started buying all the land, i really had no idea that it was because they were planning for the US to have a king and lords of the land... I have to rewatch my dystopian sci-fi... Do any tell the story of how the corps and rich ultimately become the government? Does it start with the billionaires being lords of the land and companies being corporate land lords? If so... 😫
big problem is finding worker who can do the job. sure some can be trained but talking about 6 months to 9 months before there trainees are worth their paychecks
So you should operate your business in a way that you try to keep your employees happy, so they stay onboard for years and lower turnover costs. We had lost an aspect of our culture where we are expected to work at the same company until retirement. So it causes business to handle all employees as temporary, and all employees treat their employer as a an unpredictable source of income. Which creates a catch 22 condition. Who started it I don't know and we really shouldn't care, but the companies have the money and power to work on changing that.
I think a good part of the fault also lies in them chasing many high-profile vanity projects, such as a full-size passenger bus, full end-to-end automation, and several others rather than focus on delivering cargo vans for the orders they had in-hand. You have only so much capital, resources and time. They spread themselves very thin to keep ginning up the PR and didn’t deliver existing orders on time, leading to many of them getting canceled, further eroding their financials. To be fair, they’re not the only start-up to follow that path, but you’d think they’d learn from the many examples of failure, and I say this as someone who invested in them.
Legally, the importer is responsible for paying the tariff to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This is a direct cost incurred by the importing company, Importers, like any business, aim to make a profit. They will typically *try to pass the cost* of the tariff on to their customers, notice the word TRY, if the price is too high the end users will never buy the product, so the importer pays the tariff and the companies that retail the product will look for cheaper domestic sources, this will spur investment for a local producer.
Unfortunately, as costs for tariffed items go up, history shows that domestic producers (where they exist at all and/or are capable of quickly ramping up production) cannot resist the temptation to boost their own profit margins and also raise their prices in lockstep, so the consumer ends up footing higher prices regardless. So tariffs are inflationary at best, even when they don't also result in quite as big an increase in government tax receipts. We've seen this play out multiple times before.
16:43 what? Tesla is the LEAST guilty manufacturer of doing this, why would you call them out? They have the highest content of US *MADE* (not assembled) components of any manufacturer.
I was really surprised that you didn't cover hyper local open source conversions. Not only would they save a huge amount of resources by reusing the frames that we already have in existence in every small town, but it would increase repairability and help build the skills to repair these vehicles that we need across the country, not just in manufacturing centers.
Yah that’s a different video (that’s already in planning)
And those shops are not putting in new crap to track everything. I bet they also take out the existing privacy invading crap.
That's what I want to do.
@@transportevolvedcan't wait. Hope you can call out some shops, training facilities, etc... Hope that video adds some flywheel effect to that space.
I want to be their customer.
1980 public school shut down industrial arts classes . Journeymen enlist their sons into apprenticeships . The number of those are small .
And yet, there are many programs at community colleges around the world where people get to learn new skills - including automotive technician programs - regardless of age, background, or sex.
Great insight!
However, I don't think EVs are more complicated to manufacture than ICE cars. Yes, you have to set up battery pack and electric motor manufacturing but I think that manufacture of IC engines and transmissions is much more complicated. In addition, electric motors and battery packs are easily outsourced to distributed production. It's much easier to manufacture an electric motor than an IC engine or transmission with thousands of precision parts.
Check out Edison motors and Deboss garage for people doing small scale distributed EV manufacture. In addition San Francisco based Telo is looking to manufacture a small truck.
Thanks
124... Logical and worthwhile thinking about. Going small, or going mega in order to make it small? Keep Evolving!
Check your blood oxygen percentage .
Arrival was founded in 2014 by Russian billionaire Denis Sverdlov. The company planned to use small, "micro-factories" to build electric vans, buses, and taxis. In 2021, Arrival was valued at $15 billion and listed on the Nasdaq, making it the biggest initial stock market listing for a UK tech company at the time, today it's out of business.
2:47 nice
Thanks, Agree the sentiment. The main issue is beneath the skin EVs are very different from ICEVs. It is no surprise manufacturers that have had most success in this sector are relative newcomers, unencumbered by having to leverage legacy production processes.
The EU has high tariffs against China, but the current US tariffs are something like double that. It’s already frustrating to see that, while European brands are selling new EVs in the $25k price range, the cheapest we can hope for in the US is *maybe* something a little under $40k.
Even if this was possible, Prices on EV's would still be cost prohibitive.
Yep, pick one, "Cheap affordable small EVs" or "Manufactured in the US EVs" working "smarter" won't get you both. Since labor and environmental costs are much higher in the US than in Mexico, it will always be more expensive to build in the US and any "smart" manufacturing innovations can be applied to foreign factories to lower costs there too.
@@BubbaBearsFriendSo build them in Mexico where we have a trade agreement with.
With that said, EV's are super simple to manufacture. There are no conplex combustion engines or complicated transmissions and all their accompanying parts and mechanisms required for them to work at all. And EV, in it's most basic form, is just a battery and a simple motor. An ICE vehicle has around 30,000 parts, while an EV has less than 2,000.
Just like flat panel televisions are multitudes cheaper to manufacture with no need for a finicky and massive picture tube and all it's requirements, so are EV's so much cheaper to manufacture at scale.
A 32" picture tube TV cost $700 a quarter century ago with only 480 lines of resolutions. Whereas a 50" flat panel TV with multitudes higher resolution of 4K, costs less than $200 today, even after a quarter century of inflation. Why? Because they're so much cheaper to manufacture.
So yes, as long as you keep job busting union leaders out of there, they'll be cheap to build in America. Especially with more and more automation cutting out humans that can fall for union leader tricks.
EV's are super simple to manufacture. There are no conplex combustion engines or complicated transmissions and all their accompanying parts and mechanisms required for them to work at all. And EV, in it's most basic form, is just a battery and a simple motor. An ICE vehicle has around 30,000 parts, while an EV has less than 2,000.
This video preaches socialism. This video is an OP-ED (opinion editorial) on socialism. YT has videos explaining what socialism is. Remember, TE is ant-capitalist. Three countries that practiced socialism are USSR (now defunct), North Korea, and Maoist China. For a lay person, a communist state is a socialist state run by one party. Everyone should read up or understand what socialism is. Like I said before, there are videos in the YT domain that explains it better. This video is a prime example of socialism. When talking about LOCAL manufacturing options, we are talking about COLLECTIVES. Make no mistake about it. It would be appropo to say well done, Comrade Nikki for describing a COLLECTIVE.
Here’s definition of Socialism (New Oxford American Dictionary):
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole:
"we want a real democratic and pluralist left party-one which unites all those who believe in socialism"
▪
policy or practice based on the political and economic theory of socialism:
"the debate over whether to move away from free markets and toward socialism"
▪
(in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism:
"socialism is the first stage of the worldwide transition to communism"
Not only does the local consumer pay the tarrif, lets discuss where that money goes; it goes to the government imposing the tarrif.
So as the US taxes, i mean, tarrifs, everything from China by at least 10% and Canada and Mexico by at least 20%, Americans pay that hidden tax, the Federal government pockets it with one hand and issues the rich tax breaks with the other hand... All while not incentivizing any development worth doing... The only question is will this policy last 4 years, or forever? Cant recall any kings in history reducing tax for the "mob". Or stepping down..
When the billionaires started buying all the land, i really had no idea that it was because they were planning for the US to have a king and lords of the land...
I have to rewatch my dystopian sci-fi... Do any tell the story of how the corps and rich ultimately become the government? Does it start with the billionaires being lords of the land and companies being corporate land lords? If so... 😫
TRUMP did not start this. The other party did.
Those people across the Pacific on big land area want to rule the world. It seems you are blind to that fact.
Isn't that the case in the Aliens movie series?
@@ziploc2000 Tribalism , rule the Universe .
Alien Tribalism to colonize the Universe . The Aliens have competition .
RTO threats aren't particularly veiled; thinly or otherwise. 😕
39 comments , that is sad.
big problem is finding worker who can do the job. sure some can be trained but talking about 6 months to 9 months before there trainees are worth their paychecks
So you should operate your business in a way that you try to keep your employees happy, so they stay onboard for years and lower turnover costs. We had lost an aspect of our culture where we are expected to work at the same company until retirement. So it causes business to handle all employees as temporary, and all employees treat their employer as a an unpredictable source of income. Which creates a catch 22 condition. Who started it I don't know and we really shouldn't care, but the companies have the money and power to work on changing that.
100% NON union workers needed.
IF you are UAW youre FIRED.
Sadly, Arrival and its microfactory model failed 😕
I think a good part of the fault also lies in them chasing many high-profile vanity projects, such as a full-size passenger bus, full end-to-end automation, and several others rather than focus on delivering cargo vans for the orders they had in-hand.
You have only so much capital, resources and time. They spread themselves very thin to keep ginning up the PR and didn’t deliver existing orders on time, leading to many of them getting canceled, further eroding their financials.
To be fair, they’re not the only start-up to follow that path, but you’d think they’d learn from the many examples of failure, and I say this as someone who invested in them.
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Legally, the importer is responsible for paying the tariff to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This is a direct cost incurred by the importing company, Importers, like any business, aim to make a profit. They will typically *try to pass the cost* of the tariff on to their customers, notice the word TRY, if the price is too high the end users will never buy the product, so the importer pays the tariff and the companies that retail the product will look for cheaper domestic sources, this will spur investment for a local producer.
Unfortunately, as costs for tariffed items go up, history shows that domestic producers (where they exist at all and/or are capable of quickly ramping up production) cannot resist the temptation to boost their own profit margins and also raise their prices in lockstep, so the consumer ends up footing higher prices regardless. So tariffs are inflationary at best, even when they don't also result in quite as big an increase in government tax receipts. We've seen this play out multiple times before.
@@kevind4850 So it's just a race to the bottom China wins? let's pack it in now.
@@kevind4850 exactly the imported product costing more gives local producers cover to raise their prices and still "stay competitive".
16:43 what? Tesla is the LEAST guilty manufacturer of doing this, why would you call them out? They have the highest content of US *MADE* (not assembled) components of any manufacturer.
Other countries exist. ;)
When are you going to realize that E.V.s are the past not the future!
Describe the future(s). Don’t say hydrogen because that has been debunked more times than I can count
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