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Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Not that I want to defend Musk, but
I suppose here he just used something that was present, like many other entities
Yes, only after Tesla show that it is possible to make a nice EV car. Do you remember all the EV cars before Tesla.
Given they started from scratch, I'd say the are not that bad