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The road to electric vehicles with lower sticker prices than gas cars – battery costs explained

  • Written by Venkat Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
The road to electric vehicles with lower sticker prices than gas cars – battery costs explainedReplacing carbon-emitting gas-powered cars with EVs requires whittling away EVs' price premium, and that comes down to one thing: battery cost.Westend61 via Getty Images

Electric vehicle sales have grown exponentially in recent years, accompanied by dropping prices. However, adoption of EVs remains limited by their higher sticker price relative to...

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