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A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.

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[–] sonori@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The cars the article is talking about were clearly used in service at some point, as it would seem a bit strange to put up makeshift covid mask warnings in the windows of cars that weren’t functional and at least in so far as our primary source identified them tended to have a minimum range of 100km.

Manufacturers identified included Chongqing Changan and Nessan’s Chinese subsidiary, I didn’t see any mention of Kandi.

[–] Thevenin@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Correct, Kandi wasn't involved in this article, it's just another documented example of this kind of behavior.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Except your alleging that these cars were obviously built solely to defend the government simply becuse a different unrelated company did defrauded the government even though by all accounts these were legitimate, if poorly thought out, companies.