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Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars
(www.reuters.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They may have been talking about economic inefficiency, if you don’t have a busy enough route to justify the initial investment.
And in the US at least, there is a LOT of land, and huge amounts of it are sparsely populated. But that still adds up to a lot of people.