Rimuru stood on the observation deck of the newly completed factory, looking down at the orderly production workshops and the electric vehicle production lines ready to start. He appeared calm, but in his heart, he had already weighed every advantage and disadvantage.
Everyone else saw the glory of a super electric vehicle factory opening and beginning production, poised to monopolize an entirely new opportunity. Only he understood that behind the benefits of being ahead of the times lurked a fatal risk, one capable of bringing the company's progress to a complete halt.
A regulatory vacuum, with no rules to follow.
At this point in the timeline, gasoline-powered cars still had a firm monopoly on the global automobile market. New-energy electric vehicles were an entirely new and unheard-of product, and the relevant industry standards, sales regulations, safety codes, and market oversight laws were all completely nonexistent.
The thorniest and most lethal problem was the gray-area trap of antitrust law.
Rimuru knew perfectly well that his electric vehicle could not possibly be replicated by the industrial capabilities of the present day.
Never mind advanced technologies like the vehicle architecture, intelligent control system, and chassis tuning. The core high-density energy-storage battery alone was thirty years ahead of its time.
Laboratories in this era could forget about mass-producing an identical battery. Even if they were given thirty years to devote to the problem, they would not be able to grasp the basics of the core energy-storage formula, energy-density balance, or explosion-proof safety structure. His unique battery technology, vehicle patents, and intelligent electronic control system were an overwhelming advantage on a completely different level. There was no competing product that could compare.
To put it plainly, it was not that Rimuru was deliberately monopolizing the market. Nobody else in his era was even qualified to