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Originally Posted by ivorya
I watched a great documentary about the Chinese Technological rise.
Back in the 90s, their gov and Head of Technologies decided that electronics/batteries and battery vehicles should be the future of their development.
Lets fast forward to today.
Why is anyone surprised that they are now 25yrs ahead of everyone else?
Why shouldn't they be rewarded with sales etc?
Isn't that Capitalism? We build something cheaper than anyone else, the people will buy!
or// It's not Capitalism if a non-US/Western country builds something cheaper!
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Jury is still out on Chinese EVs IMO - way better than their ICE cars but she's still no Tesla.
Tesla Model 3 is the Falcon/Commodore of the EV world, good support.
Where as I think BYD doesn't even have their own workshops, they've partnered with that Mycar franchise as their workshop network