China's electric cars are becoming slicker and cheaper - but is there a deeper cost?

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OK but seriously, “China does something potentially good, but at what cost” is a meme at this point.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The cost seems pretty obvious TBH…they’re subsidising their car industry to a much higher degree than European and American countriesin order to achieve a greater marker share and by extension control of large foreign car consumer markets.

    There’s of course also the general increased security risk of the Chinese government being plugged in to all the companies making these cars with black box software and always connected to the internet.

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So, basically what every VC-backed capitalist is doing. But we don’t see these constant articles of “But at what cost” for every VC-backed venture

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