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If You're Thinking Of Snapping Up A Cheap New Chinese Electric Car There Is Something You Should Know…
19 Mar 2025 | Abstracted from Independent
"Looking rather nice and packed with gadgetry, Chinese electric cars are clearly going to outsell Western brands on price...huge issue hanging over electric cars from China: are they four-wheeled Trojan horses packed with electronics to spy on myriad aspects of life in the West?...an electric car is always internet-connected, and acts like a giant, data-gobbling mobile phone.
"The sort of regulation in China that expands the power of the Party is not helpful to tech companies trying to become multinationals and convince the rest of the world that they're just profit-driven normal companies."
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