While we have gone on record suggesting that EVs will effectively gut the established order of car manufacturers, that does not mean that the existing leaders should simply lay down and die. What we mean is that given the low number of moving parts in an EV, the process of making them has to be simpler, cheaper, and more streamlined and will not suit distributed manufacture in quite the way a conventional car is built using multiple factories and just in time planning. That means a huge reduction in factory numbers, and a consequent reduction in the parts businesses which make up all of the car maker’s dependent suppliers. Any car company that is willing to reduce in size quite…