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maelito ◴[] No.45345816[source]
Still, Europe has no electric-only brand.

We need it. Let the thermal engine models die.

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1. FirmwareBurner ◴[] No.45345823[source]
EU doesn't really like to do start-ups in traditional fields dominated by century-old players, so the policies all focus on protecting those monopolists and not helping create startup to disrupt them or that could threaten them.

That's why they were anti-EV for so long, since that threatened their lucrative ICE dominance.

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2. maelito ◴[] No.45345904[source]
Well that's a problem.

But I believe you're wrong. Lots of startups tackle old problems and succeed.

The best example would be Alan, for health insurance. They're a startup in a traditional field dominated by half-a-century players.

Indy is another example : enterprise accounting is very old. It wasn't industrial, now it is, online.

Decathlon's bikes did destroy old players of this field.

Mistral crushed every French decade-old IT companies in the LLM domain. Etc.

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3. FirmwareBurner ◴[] No.45348941[source]
>The best example would be Alan, for health insurance

Afaik they only seem to operate in France and Belgium not in whole of EU. So how is that a "best example" ?

>Mistral crushed every French decade-old IT companies in the LLM domain. Etc.

Mistral didn't crush anything, Legacy French SW companies are still there doing business.