The rise of inexpensive Chinese electric vehicles has upped the pressure on legacy automakers who have turned to suppliers, from battery materials makers to chipmakers, to squeeze out costs and develop affordable EVs quicker than previously planned.
  • @ZinkEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    They may have been talking about economic inefficiency, if you don’t have a busy enough route to justify the initial investment.

    And in the US at least, there is a LOT of land, and huge amounts of it are sparsely populated. But that still adds up to a lot of people.