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Carmakers are failing to deliver affordable electric cars, holding back EV adoption | Disproportionate focus of manufacturers on large SUVs and premium models means we have too few mass-market cars. (www.transportenvironment.org)

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

They’re coming, and in some places of the world are already there. China is absolutely pumping out massive volumes of affordable EVs, and are exporting them to SE Asia, and Europe.

MG, BYD and Ora are the first few brands that come to mind. The quality may not be to the highest standards, but they’re no slouches either.

Chinese made cars were absolute jokes 10-15 years ago, but due to the way the CCP forced brands to manufacture cars in China - they’ve been able to improve their own designs around twice as fast as Hyundai/Kia did: Remember how God-aweful those cars were in the 90s? Now look at something like the Ioniq 5.

If you don’t believe me, fair enough - but also consider that Volvo/Polestar have been majority Chinese-owned for a while now, and make some really good semi-luxury cars.