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by re-thc 181 days ago
> America has neither the interest nor the capital to chase EVs or force them down American consumer throats.

Only if you see the market continue to be dominated by human drivers. We are potentially moving to self-driving cars like Waymo, Tesla etc then they will get the choice to force what car they like.

> The government clearly lost its appetite as it isn't subsidizing EVs anymore.

More like "the current" government. It can always change.
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NetMageSCW 181 days ago
That potentially is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting for fifty to one hundred years.
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re-thc 181 days ago
> for fifty to one hundred years

Ballmer in 2007 also said the iPhone was not going to get any significant market share. It didn't even take close to fifty years, did it?

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ghaff 181 days ago
No conflict of interest there.

It did take a few years after 2007 before it became obvious to pretty much everyone that the iPhone was going to be a huge hit but took a little while before some oddities in the original software were corrected and people adjusted to not having a physical keyboard which some thought was going to be a dealbreaker out of the gate.

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