<story><title>China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-02/china-s-spending-30-billion-to-assemble-its-electric-detroits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dhruvrrp</author><text>I remember reading a few months (?) ago that China was looking to consolidate the electric vehicle industry because the government incentives led to 500+ manufacturers who like to &amp;quot;move-fast and break things&amp;quot; and caused problems like vehicle fires.&lt;p&gt;imo that would mean a lot of these towns wouldn&amp;#x27;t be in business for very long.&lt;p&gt;Edit: found the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19617681&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19617681&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-02/china-s-spending-30-billion-to-assemble-its-electric-detroits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>The more important Bloomberg link is about the EV bubble
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2019-04-14&amp;#x2F;the-18-billion-electric-car-bubble-at-risk-of-bursting-in-china&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2019-04-14&amp;#x2F;the-18-bi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>