Batteries have become much cheaper, making energy storage far more affordable.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    EV adoption was stifled by MAGA Premieres killing incentives and ripping out public chargers, while giving money to Detroit to keep building shitty trucks and muscle cars.

    Meanwhile, to sell EVs in Europe, XPing is getting them made in Austria using Magna, a Canadian company. Why didn’t Carney/Ford insist on this in Ontario?

    BYD tried to build buses in Ontario but they were so shit they had to close the plant and pay a bunch of lawsuits. And BYD is hurting, they just laid off 100,000 worldwide.

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      BYD tried to build buses in Ontario but they were so shit they had to close the plant and pay a bunch of lawsuits.

      Wow interesting I didn’t know that, I’ve heard that China has too many car makers, and some of them would have to go. So this is probably just the beginning of an adjustment for Chinese makers.