The UAW Strike And The Inexorable Math Of Electric Vehicles

17 Sep 2023 | Abstracted from Business Insider

"The traditional internal combustion engine has more than 1,000 parts. New electric engines have about 50...As EVs take over, this will no longer be the case. Forget about AI. This is the job destruction that's guaranteed to happen soon...Ford CEO Jim Farley told the Financial Times that manufacturing EVs requires about 40% less labor than making the same number of internal combustion vehicles...Whatever the outcome of the strike, Elon Musk has already won..."

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