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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Before he started radicalizing himself he was making 1 on 1 deals with Obama to guarentee subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX, Elon got tens of billions from the government and tens of billions from private investors through personal deals.

That's why he got most of them

But i agree that American car manufacturers had been coasting for a long time before Tesla ate their lunch.