China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities
China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities
A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.
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I don't understand why they wouldn't introduce a trade scheme for petrol car owners: swap your petrol pollution machine for a free EV!
Also, why not sell these cars to be retrofitted with better batteries? Wouldn't it be cheaper that building a whole new car? How is there no industry around this?
A guess is that those cars are so bad that nobody wants them even for free.
Becuse that requires the government own them, which requires that they finish working their way though bankruptcy court. Some already have, and the rest should follow sooner or later.
Why would the government have to own them? Plus, it's China. The government can persuade pretty much any national company to do their bidding. Sometimes they even persuade foreign companies to do their bidding *cough* Google Apple *cough*
Because it’s kind of hard to eminent domain the subject of an ongoing legal battle?
Really? The "communist" government that builds highways around the homes of people who don't want to move, disappears business owners who don't fall in line with the party mandate, and forces private companies to spy in their interest will find it "kind of hard" to nationalize resources of a private company?
I'd like to remind you that China isn't Europe or the US.
You will note that none of thouse things might involve repossessing things party members might own a stake in the same way that they would a failed company.