English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on September 11, 2025, 16:28:02
Title: Europe wants its own Tesla Model 2 for €15,000 to take on the €20,000 BYD Seagull
Post by: Redaktion on September 11, 2025, 16:28:02
While Tesla ditched its affordable electric car project, Europe set out to build a cheap electric car for the masses profitably. Its automakers are facing an onslaught of Chinese electric cars, and the European Commission is taking action.
Title: Re: Europe wants its own Tesla Model 2 for €15,000 to take on the €20,000 BYD Seagull
Post by: heffeque on September 11, 2025, 19:52:49
QuoteCATL is building a battery factory in Europe [...] but whether the Small Affordable Cars initiative will consider these part of a European supply chain remains to be seen.
Why wouldn't it? It's literally what legislators want: labor in Europe.