The lack of demand for privately bought, used early generation cars is an example of this price suppression.
It's the lack of economies of scale that is keeping prices high as adoption is too low to ramp production
35 is the sum of the first five triangular numbers, making it a tetrahedral number.[1]
35 is the 10th discrete semiprime (5×7)[2] and the first with 5 as the lowest non-unitary factor, thus being the first of the form (5.q) where q is a higher prime.
35 has two prime factors, (5 and 7) which...
that is the other business model. Buy the car - rent the battery. It has its advantages in that you don't ever need to care about degradation but there's a lot of infrastructure involved to do it.
Wireless charging on the motorway or scalextric style brushes for the win ;)