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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by bluGill on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:43PM (#20085216)
What makes you think manufacturing isn't done in the US? China has a lot of cheap labor so things that are best done by cheap labor move there. (less so now as China is moving up). There is a lot of manufacturing that remains in the US, anything that benefits from automation and cheap reliable energy is best done in the US where energy is cheap and reliable and there are automation engineers.
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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by jbay808 on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:06PM (#20091412)
There are also automation engineers in China, and they have the significant advantage of being able to easily observe the manual processes that they need to automate!
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