It makes China the first country to stop the use of designs first made popular by Elon Musk's Tesla.
  • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Please tell me the doors still open mechanically

    I thought the issue was just that people couldn’t as easily figure out how to open it

    • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      6 days ago

      It comes as EVs are facing scrutiny from safety watchdogs around the world after a number of deadly incidents, including two fatal crashes in China involving Xiaomi EVs in which power failures were suspected to have prevented doors from being opened.

      i read this to mean that the doors require power to open