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Secretive Ford 'Skunkworks' Team Developing Cheap EV to Beat Tesla and China
- zer00eyz 3y agoThe Ford Pinto: famous for catching on fire. Chinese EV's are notorious for catching on fire. I just don't think that this venture is going to end well.
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- lamontcg 3y agodup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39288743 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39288743