Lowering Manufacturing Costs of EVs with Brian White of FutureAZA

Reducing EV Manufacturing Costs with Brian White, FutureAZA
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One of the biggest roadblocks to EV adoption is often cited as the high purchase price. In this episode, we take a look at what manufacturers are doing to drive down costs of new electric vehicles.
Our guest presenter is Brian White. Brian has been hosting the popular KZbin channel FutureAzA since 2020, with over 1,700 videos published to date. He's been a featured speaker at events across Europe and North America because of his depth of understanding on a variety of EV specific topics like manufacturing, batteries, and supply chain logistics, and because the only people who know more about the factories he covers are bound by non-disclosure agreements.

[@Greenspaceservices]

I have a model 3 rwd and it saves me $500 a month on fuel costs alone. Way more features including autonomous make my driving experience much better. Great video guys!

[@ElectricVehicleSociety]

Great to hear you are enjoying your EV. Thanks for watching and subscribing to our channel!

[@madlucio70]

This was another great discussion. Two other hard sells, and I must say hard pills that I had to swallow when I went full EV, are higher insurance cost and much higher EV tire cost. 1. Full EV's right now tend to be higher end SUV-type vehicles and therefore higher cost which equals higher insurance. We do not have enough small car choice for lower price. My insurance company also gave me the whole speel about higher costs due to not having enough history and statistics on EVs leading to higher costs that "should" lower over time. 2. The tire costs can be quite high, especially when a lot of the EV platforms come with specialized tires and typically larger sizes. All of that being said, the long term cost will and should be lower than petrol equivalents, but the initial cost is high and likely what is scaring most people. These facts, along with a lot of EV myths. I was also happy to learn that the used EV market is starting to get a foothold.

[@ElectricVehicleSociety]

Mad, if you are located in Ontario or Atlantic Canada, you might want to check insurance through the EVS sponsor. They have been reportedly giving some really good rates for members. It's a free quote.

[@lkirkby3]

I just got my first EV the last week in June. It is a 2021 SOUL EV Limited fully loaded with only 17,700 km on it. It was first put on the road in June 2021 so I have two years of main warranty and 5 years of battery warranty left on it. It has been a great car so far and our second car (a VW Sportwagen) is in the garage so far. The Soul was less than 34,500 Canadian tax in.

[@ElectricVehicleSociety]

Congrats on your new ride Lee. I'm sure you are going to enjoy the SOUL.

[@maguires]

Good discussion. NZ removed rebates/incentives for EV's due to change in government and cost. No tariffs on car imports. Also added RUC, Road User Charge, which is a km/mile permit for using the road infrastructure paid in gasoline taxes, but not diesel and now EV. Governments need to recover the roading cost beyond sales taxes.

[@JTI1945]

Very well done. I quibble a bit with his assessment of the charging network for non-Teslas but it will catch up in time. I feel the blanket 100% tariff on Chinese EV's is a mistake. It will seriously impair the climate goals in Canada and the USA. It could have been more intelligent. The EU did it by manufacturer based on their subsidies. Or, perhaps by class of cars to supply the lower end of the market.

[@lean_sumek]

Great discuss 😊🥰🤣✳️✴️

[@ElectricVehicleSociety]

Thank you! 🤗

[@flashsushi1843]

New to newish owners need not worry about the battery pack. Used BEV shoppers will have to take the risk of higher replacement costs or worse, lack of availability. Best to make sure manufacturers have packs to offer and reasonable prices. Many want 200-300% of what Tesla asks. For ICE, lots of scrapped ones or cheaper rebuilds, available battery packs not so common at scrap yards.

[@ElectricVehicleSociety]

Fortunately the minimum battery warranty is 8 years. By all reports, ev batteries are lasting longer than expected.

[@xlargetophat]

We need talon Metals to mine in Minnesota and Michigan.

[@DCGreenZone]

Chinese EV owners freezing their butts off because they can't run the heater for fear of being stuck in transit, charging rates doubled and tripled. That's the world I live in.

[@ElectricVehicleSociety]

11 Canadian winters and my butt has never been frozen. Charging has not been an issue either.

[@DCGreenZone]

@@ElectricVehicleSociety That you Elon?

[@danielcpt3819]

So you're criticising EVs with nonsense and your name is DCGreenZone with a picture of a Cyberstruck? Talk about being confused.

[@DCGreenZone]

@@danielcpt3819 You will notice the "Cybertruck" is disabled in a most serious way. That's how green I am.

[@danielcpt3819]

@@DCGreenZone clearly just a troll then.

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

With the 100% tariff, no reason for North American manufacture's to make an affordable EV.

[@rubyredlexusES350]

This is definitely one of the concerns.

[@JTI1945]

Totally agree. EV's are not more expensive than "equivalent" cars but equivalent tends to be the higher end of the market.

[@BlackhawkPilot]

Too much ‘my mind is made up, don’t confuse me with the facts.’