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European auto giants launch a flurry of cheaper electric vehicles — taking the fight to China (www.cnbc.com)
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" ... as soon as vehicles come in the right price range next year … people will flock to buy them.”

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[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Electric vehicles are peddled as some sort of cure to climate change when they are only a bit better than gasoline cars since they still need the massive amount of infrastructure needed for cars. I stilk think that people buying an electric car when their gasoline car breaks is reasonable enough if other transport options are unavailible. But our focus should be on making those other options of transport both availible and reasonable rather than focusing on a specific drive train technology.