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yeah, I'll believe it when I see it on the road. People forget that making a car suddenly doesn't get easier because you no longer use a combustion engine, there are dozens of established car manufacturers that are moving in.

It took the Koreans over 40 years to finally achieve competitiveness and quality. The road for China will be even tougher.

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I think the more important point from the article is that China backed EVs big time and it is beginning to pay off. Not a lot of other governments made such forward thinking bets 20 years ago.

It's now a matter of 'when', not 'if' in China's case.

Here in India, we get random murmurs about EVs from the government, but no concrete action. There is just a single crappy EV model on the market, no charging network, and no infrastructure investment

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