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this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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This reminds me a lot of how American car companies built giant land yachts until the Gas Crisis, and then had to compete with cheaper, more efficient, and more reliable Japanese car brands. Car companies know that we need to maintain a certain level of industrial output to stay competitive geopolitically, so they know they'll get bailed out if they fail. So they're gonna keep making these mistakes.
Is there a Chinese electric hot hatch or roadster that doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles?
Plenty. None that I would trust to save me in a road accident, though.
Outside of the USA, those giant pickup truck are outright illegal, or would have an annual road tax of USD 2000. That's how tiny cheap EVs are made safer elsewhere