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" ... as soon as vehicles come in the right price range next year … people will flock to buy them.”

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[–] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

The only reason they are cheaper is because of the super high import taxes of Chinese EV.

I hope China starts to build giga factories in Europe, so we get cheap and good products, instead of that French crap.

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz -3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah for sure, china and "good products" do not go well together.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Surprisingly, the China-made Tesla Model 3s tend to be of exceptional quality, whereas the US-made ones are not

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