[neverkn0wsb357]

“Beijing has rolled out new EV subsidies to help keep struggling companies afloat.”

This seems like an odd approach. If you’re gonna site maintenance as the concern, then what you’re saying is you’re concerned about the consumer; meaning if the company is gonna go bust, you should take the money that you’d spend keeping these companies afloat and give them directly to the consumer to replace the car.

[johnea]

The article isn't conclusive, but I read this as meaning they were keeping the companies open long enough to issue firmware updates, that make the cars viable in offline mode.