[nashashmi]

China is a great place to start your journey in e-car making. Less regulations. Cheap materials. More fun with inventions. Lots of trials. Lots of low cost errors.

Also bad publicity for established companies.

[throwup238]

And a huge domestic market to amortize their development costs across with a middle class that is still growing instead of shrinking.

[throwawaymaths]

> middle class that is still growing instead of shrinking.

You should update your facts on that. Although accurate numbers are hard to come by a lot of analysts and indicators point to this starting to reverse as of this year.