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So Chinese, Japanese companies making electrical car are not aware of the fact that you can build ev?...
by justicezyx 9y ago
So Chinese, Japanese companies making electrical car are not aware of the fact that you can build ev?...
- mc32 9y agoWhat they have so far produced has been underwhelming with some unsuccessful forays into hydrogen. Without Tesla's competition incenting them to compete, we'd be at least 10 years behind. It reminds me of the stories of the half arsed efforts by American car MFGs to make compact gas economic cars during the 70s gas crisis. They could make them, did they give it a good effort? No, and it took them decades to reorient that ship.
- justicezyx 9y ago> Without Tesla's competition incenting them to compete, we'd be at least 10 years behind. The EV adoption leader, China, was under Tesla's competition pressure. Hmm, don't know why Tesla did not get a AAPL valuation...
- durkie 9y agoJapanese companies are still largely unaware of this, with Mazda having their head in the sand about EVs and Toyota/Honda continuing to push fuel cells.