Parts count on EVs is an order of magnitude less than combustion. They should scale for batteries and motors with the price being an order of magnitude less expensive to build them. The foundry, machining, and precision parts of combustion are massive operations.

The real problem is that military tech relies on the same supply chain and EV’s don’t handle battle quite like combustion. So what does the USA do? Pretend that this is not the real issue and build luxury EV’s instead because the scale will still follow the lower end.

Mark my words, until you see most military vehicles going electric, we won’t see low cost mass produced EV’s. It has nothing to do with what is best for any of us. It has everything to do with exploitation and killing people abroad over petty nonsense for the most part.