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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The US government does subsidize EVs (it's the only reason Tesla can exist, for instance), the problem is that all their subsidies just get used for stock buybacks. Why would a privately-owned company actually create more factories? That's just not profitable.

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