Chevy Bolt EV battery cost breakdown

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REC_S2020_01 · Recitations, Spring 2020 · §6.p1

Batteries are heavy. I have two all-electric vehicles, the Chevy Bolts, and the battery costs $10,000 to General Motors. It goes in that car and they sell it to me for thirty thousand. What's the number-one cost of an automobile? The health insurance for the workers — that's the biggest single cost. The second is the frame, which would be the graphite fiber, and the third is seats. Brian, do you want to get up and tell us a little bit about yourself and what you're going to do this time? Brian did his doctoral thesis with me a number of years ago on non-destructive testing.