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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by petra on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:59AM (#13559464)
>> the market did not yet recognize how cheap lithium ion batteries had become.

How did that happened in the age of the internet ? and are there still a lot of such technological "secrets" ?

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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by comicjk on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:49AM (#13559718)
"Secret" is not the right concept. It's not that people didn't know the price, it's that they didn't see the implications of the price for opening a new market. That kind of insight takes imagination as well as knowledge.
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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by whiskers08xmt on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:13AM (#13559545)
Happens all the time. Kind of how smartphones drove down the prices of components useful for VR goggles, and made them a feasible product.
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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by makomk on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:01PM (#13562249)
Manufacturers in this industry don't exactly publish price lists.
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