More of that capitalist innovation I keep hearing about huh. Finding innovative new ways to stop new technology that threatens their business from reaching a broader market! Great job
I guess one last year has been allowed. After that a flood of cheap (true prices) chinese EVs will arrive.
Don’t worry, Biden just imposed tariffs on Chinese EVs so they can rest easy now.
So when they say capitalism is innovative, they mean like regressively innovative?
And people don't really care about it . Let the wheel spin and get as much as you can while you ride, don't think about next drivers.
Japan in japan sabotages cars. The real issue is that Japan went deep on hydrogen power combined with the large increase in electric prices after 3/11 any future of electric car died for the Japanese domestic market. Toyota in particular put its money in hydrogen buses, cars and other things which lead to a galaoagos tech like half of the rest of the crap in japan. Theres also some general resistance to electric over the past decade to create a parallel technology stack to china which fizzled out.
Imagine where we’d be if this stuff was allowed to mature in the 2000s alone
Watching that in my high school electronics class was a early radicalizing moment
Today I learned: the "conspiracy theory" about the oil industry killing electric cars in the 90's was absolutely true.
is that purely because they can't make them well or is there another reason?
honestly the japanese EV ive been in felt decent?
I know someone with a decade old Leaf and that thing is still going strong with more than 300k on it.
yup that was the one! and it wasnt even that old. which is why i'm confused, it seemed good enough.
japan seemed to me like one of the places where great EVs would consistently be coming from.
Japanese carmakers were trying to go with hydrogen fuel and did a big grift on their government to get it subsidized. I think the idea was that Japan would have a national disadvantage with EV production as they don't have the material base for batteries but they could have an advantage with hydrogen.
Those failed, or course. Now they're a decade behind - there were only two Japanese EVs sold internationally just a few years ago.
Companies doing austerity internally to own the clean energy enjoyers
At this rate Saudi Arabia will beat Japan on EVs. A very big claim but I have cause to believe it.
Lucid already started making EVs in Saudi Arabia. And they also have investments in Human Horizons and an EV manufacturing deal with Hyundai.
Tesla and Tata Motors are exceptions noted, but noted highlighted in the article.
