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"What private company would ever be able to invest in R&D and especially in the necessary charging infrastructure?" Tesla would probably not exist without gove
by alexasmyths 9y ago
"What private company would ever be able to invest in R&D and especially in the necessary charging infrastructure?"
Tesla would probably not exist without government subsidies.
Also - electric cars are just a pretty small/feasible evolution from regular ones, moreover, the barrier to entry is not outlandish. There's a 'known market' and we know how to build them.
Even the sales cycle for large aircraft depends on state actors.
- nickpp 9y agoYes. Because a private company taking advantage of corrupt actors in a broken market means that said company could not exist at all in a functioning free market. Because it would be too expensive. We have no examples where private companies worked in parallel to build huge, expensive markets from the ground up. Like say the CAR market itself. Or the cell phone. Or the smartphone... No, a Wise Government must come in and say "let there be market"...