Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think
by paganel on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:06AM
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China is not supplying capital for the suburbs of Kinshasa to upgrade their electrical grid the same way as a Tesla-loving white suburb from the Valley can get easy money by just issuing some muni bonds. I’m not insinuating, I’m telling it as is easy, this is a regressive policy that hurts the poor more and helps those that already have (money and political influence). It so happens that the latter cohort is mostly white while the first isn’t.
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Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think
by pydry on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:54AM
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shrug they're very much out there financing and building power infrastructure and roads and selling electric bikes to the locals in Kinshasa.
China wants access to their cobalt of course.
Capital is perhaps not quite as easily available as it is in the valley and theyre not buying Teslas on credit but they're still transitioning to electric vehicles.
Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think
by imtringued on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:52AM
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What if it pulls poor countries out of the dutch disease trap?