A $20,000 EV?, page-23

Yes
idea development and beta testing may well be reduced to six months from whatever periods we currently have but,

implementation will still be a protracted process as
tooling up and
manufacture of volume,
discretionary product choice and
ability/propensity to move to the innovation
from early adoption to ubiquity
are restricted by geography demography and distribution of resources
as well as strategic factors such as scale abilities and
national comparative advantages.