• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    12 hours ago

    Don’t car conpanies not like kicking their competition out the market and securing more profit for themselves by offering electric cars and solar cells in the 80ies?

    I mean EVs wouldn’t have made a profit at that time. Battery tech has been getting better and better over the last century and change, and batteries have been getting cheaper - but it’s STILL more expensive to build an EV than an ICE car. It’s getting better by the year though. Also with ICE cars, you get to sell more parts through the dealership system lol

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        11 hours ago

        Kinda have to have OK batteries to make the EV first. Otherwise you’re selling them at a loss.