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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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China’s auto regulators eye ban on retractable door handles, report says (carnewschina.com)

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[–] silvermoon82@lemmy.ca 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

citing safety hazards and functional deficiencies

"Functional deficiencies"? As in, under Chinese law, they can ban products just because they suck?

Damn, we need some of that here in Canada.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

I feel like feature that can trap you inside your car if it fails is a little worse than one that just 'sucks'

North American car manufacturers have been getting a little too loose with their R&D testing recently - a little regulation would definitely be welcome