• sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alM
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    8 days ago

    I get what he’s saying, but let’s be honest, given the price of his electric vehicles, they were never going to see like the hot cakes he hoped they would. The market changed and western car manufacturers failed to adapt.

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        8 days ago

        Flying cars are a terrible idea, Chinese companies aren’t immune to vaporware. See: road-straddling busses, vac trains. If we’re lucky we might see some execs get punished for lying about the feasibility to fleece investors.

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            4 days ago

            I thought it only existed in America. There’s been a dozen companies that managed to get funding from some renders or a 1-off.

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      7 days ago

      Western manufacturers keep seeing electric cars and electric bikes as specialist, luxury items. They are ignoring the obvious, that electric vehicles are the future of transport for everyone and they need to have models that fit all price ranges, including budget models.

      Ironic given the origins of Volkswagen, literally “people’s car”.

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        4 days ago

        They are ignoring the obvious, that electric vehicles are the future of transport for everyone […]

        If you mean “electric bikes”, I agree. We don’t need that many cars to function as a society. I am living in Germany, and never had a car - by choice.