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The withering dream of a cheap American electric car

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152 points voisin | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 23:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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worik ◴[18 Nov 24 00:39 UTC] No.42168656[source]▶
The Chinese are going to clean this market up.

The British made the same mistake back in the day with motorcycles. "Who cares about the market for 125 cc machines?" they said.

The Japanese did, and now they have the market, the British used to have, for luxury and high powered motor cycles. As well as most of the 125cc market

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1. adamc ◴[18 Nov 24 00:52 UTC] No.42168713[source]▶
There are some externalities that may prevent that, such as large tariffs. Countries are wary of the effects on employment.