And it also leads to potentially cheaper and cleaner products and manufacture. And a much lower overall carbon footprint.
Factories are small, requiring only 4,500 square meters along with surrounding space.
For vehicle manufacture the capital cost is hugely less than traditional manufacture, and there are not the substantial shipping, delivery and warehousing overheads of global distribution. Also on the energy side by providing distributed storage systems this eliminates the large overheads of centralised utility energy transmission that exists today.4,5