5G technology has played a key role in bringing an affordable electric vehicle to life - and on a modest manufacturing budget, quite achievable by any New Zealand company that wanted to go down the same route.

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And we do need cheaper models of EVs to go mainstream, given that today's "affordable" models really aren't that affordable at all.