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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by dhruvrrp on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:57AM (#20083758)
I remember reading a few months (?) ago that China was looking to consolidate the electric vehicle industry because the government incentives led to 500+ manufacturers who like to "move-fast and break things" and caused problems like vehicle fires.

imo that would mean a lot of these towns wouldn't be in business for very long.

Edit: found the discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617681

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by seanmcdirmid on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:58AM (#20084607)
There was also lots of subsidy fraud, where low value manufacturers would crank out what we’re basically golf carts and then indirectly collect part of the subsidy via a process similar to money laundering.
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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by baybal2 on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:12PM (#20086278)
I do remember years of "the solar boom," when just having word solar in company name enough to secure an effectively unconditional $3m grant.
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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by panpanna on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:57AM (#20084593)
Yeah, but if only 1% of those 500 survive and if 10% of those 500 companies ever came up with a good idea or design, China is set for world domination.

(Tesla was on front page the other day for burning cars, so move fast and break things is a thing here too)

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by moduspol on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:12PM (#20085541)
Fortunately our legacy automakers have solved that problem. I haven't seen a story on HN about any of them catching on fire.

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-too...

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by xbmcuser on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:06PM (#20091416)
No they haven't you have thousands of vehicle fires a year it is not just news like a Tesla fire is.
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