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Turkey also: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/29/turkey-togg-electric-crossover-suv/ https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/29/turkey-togg-electric-cro... I'm start

by bertjk 7y ago

Turkey also: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/29/turkey-togg-electric-crossover-suv/ https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/29/turkey-togg-electric-cro... I'm starting to think that the most significant consequence of the mechanical simplicity of electric cars is not the additional per-car reliability or potentially lower TCO. It is that manufacturing cars has suddenly become accessible to a much wider and geopolitically more diverse set of industrial bases. Maybe electric cars will be the new textiles where developing economies are concerned.

buboard 7y ago
> manufacturing cars has suddenly become accessible to a much wider and geopolitically more diverse set of industrial bases It has always been. German companies manufacture parts or cars in cheap countries (like turkey). Yet there are no well-known hungarian or turkish cars
sho_hn 7y ago
Both the Turkey EV (TOGG) and the Vietnamese EV (VinFast) are prototype cars made by Pinafarina in Italy, I believe. They're not as fully homegrown as one might think.
pfdietz 7y ago
It also reminds me, at least a bit, of what happened to film and cameras when digital imaging took over.