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The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future
Sky's Ed Conway explains how the rest of the world was caught napping in the electric vehicle race, which means our car prices and auto industry jobs are within China's grip.
To be able to make these engines - contraptions of many different parts, each of which undergoes enormous stresses - at a low cost and in a way that ensures their long-term reliability is all the more impressing an achievement. 2:35Ford calls for incentives to buy EVsIndeed, making reliable engines was such an enormous industrial challenge that it defied China for most of the past century. Beijing has long been determined both to dominate this next phase of car production and reduce its reliance on Middle Eastern oil imports - both of which point towards mass electrification of road transport.
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