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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Wed Feb 6, 2019, 05:57 PM Feb 2019

The cheapest Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe--for as little as $9,000

source: Quartz

China already sells more electric vehicles than the rest of the world combined. And there’s a long list of the categories you can choose from—including large buses, sports cars, two-wheeled motorcycles, and zippy scooters.

https://qz.com/1541380/the-cheapest-chinese-electric-cars-are-coming-to-the-us-and-europe/

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The cheapest Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe--for as little as $9,000 (Original Post) lordsummerisle Feb 2019 OP

Hope that will drive down the price of competing models, klook Feb 2019 #1

Indeed. Duppers Feb 2019 #2

klook

(12,174 posts)

1. Hope that will drive down the price of competing models,

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 06:14 PM

Feb 2019

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but i don't want to own a Chinese-made car. I've bought a Chinese-made electric lawnmower and a Chinese-made shredder. Both gave off incredibly noxious fumes from their plastic components when I brought them home. They seem to have very different manufacturing standards and processes over there.

Duppers

(28,134 posts)

2. Indeed.

Reply to klook (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 7, 2019, 12:11 AM

Feb 2019

And they're poisoning their own people during the manufacturing process.

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