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Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Government subsidies in order to destroy foreign markets and nurture dependence followed by dominance

[–] threelonmusketeers 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Seems a likely contributing factor. Economies of scale, cheaper labour, and vertical integration probably also play a part. I wonder how long the government subsidies will last?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And slave labor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Why do they continue to subsidize and reduce the cost of solar PV after they have already completely destroyed any foreign competition and are the only game in town?

[–] Peppycito -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Peppycito 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Oh, whoops. I figured making a product artificially cheaper to encourage adoption and undercut competition, so much so that the competition became obsolete and customers were entrenched in your product were the first steps of "enshittification".

Thanks for your well reasoned rebuttal to my poorly thought comment. I appreciate your enlightened response.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You said the wrong thing. Just take your L

[–] Peppycito -2 points 1 month ago

I know what I said

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're thinking of "embrace, expand, extinguish" - the playbook for enshitification.

[–] Peppycito 1 points 1 month ago

Did you read my post? Because I feel like that's what I said.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

If only you had spend half that energy googling the word...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

from the article: mainly because BYD is the second largest battery producer in China, also because most of the car parts are produced by them

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Slaves. The answer is slaves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

And corporate welfare. Can't forget that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did we really need to invent a new acronym BEV? Is that the differentiate them from the MFEVs, the Mister Fusion EVs?

[–] threelonmusketeers 4 points 1 month ago

I think it's mainly to differentiate them from plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).