An electric vehicle is transitioning to a lower EROEI means of transportation. A deliberate choice. A choice capitalism can not support.
The end result of lower EROEI vehicle MUST be a more expensive vehicle.
If a billionaire does not have their own space program to make sure they get the guvmint sweet deals, how the hell is capitalism supposed to get a company like Arrival off the ground? Arrival competes in a capitalist marketplace that only rewards low cost and high EROEI. Without a planned economy, any company that tries to do what Arrival is doing is DOOMED TO FAIL.
A basic knowledge about how the world works seems to be missing.
Arrival might as well be based in Argentina if the cost of delivery battery tech is not subsidized. Making battery powered vehicles large enough to move freight is a huge technical problem and no battery powered delivery vehicle has a chance in hell of competing against a diesel or gas powered equivalent.
In the 'market' as it is.
* this is an EROEI problem. Energy Invested is not hard to quantify. EI is what it takes to build the thing and what it uses. Easy enough. We do not have to worry about how to ER is calculated because we are comparing two vehicles that would do exactly the same thing. However Energy Returned is calculated it is calculated the same way for both vehicles, and mathematically the ER term cancels out. Nice.
The wisdom of the market also does not know about Jevon's Paradox.