A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.

A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.

JohnEdwa
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First bicycles, then electric scooters/mopeds, now EVs.

Capitalism is all about waste.

I thought china used communism

Then you are many decades out of date.

China’s system is technically communism in the same way the Bud Light is technically beer.

Only if it earns a profit.

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Mountains of perfectly cromulent bicycles…

It should not even be a crime to “claim” one at this point.

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