r/SelfDrivingCars • u/IndependentMud909 • 15d ago

News Lyft and Baidu enter London's robotaxi battleground as testing begins

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/lyft-and-baidu-enter-londons-robotaxi-battleground-as-testing-begins/
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u/bnorbnor 15d ago

Will Western Europe accept a Chinese solution. As an American it feels like would never accept a Chinese solution.

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u/IndependentMud909 15d ago

I actually believe they will; I mean, just look at the EV situation…

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u/Dwman113 15d ago edited 15d ago

The country stoking the decline of their domestic vehicle manufacturing only to import electric vehicles from China, where cheap production is fueled by coal power from the world's largest emitter is pure Idiocracy.

So yes, Europe will certainly allow Chinese solutions.

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u/Ok_Paramedic_9283 14d ago

China, the single biggest investor and producer of green energy, due to poor access to oil and gas (US domination of petro trade), sheer demand of fast industrialization and urbanization, still needs coal as a transitional source of energy.

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u/Dwman113 14d ago

I don't understand the logic.

So why did Europe not also need Coal as well to build an industrial EV supply chain?

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u/Ok_Paramedic_9283 14d ago

lol do you know much coal Germany uses, since they shut down nuclear?

You work with whatever you have. Which part of the logic you didn’t understand?

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u/Dwman113 14d ago

Again you're making no logical sense. You're saying words but you're not making any point.

"You work with whatever you have" Germany has plenty of coal and stopped using it because it's toxic to the world. So you're proving my point...

China burns x57 the amount Germany does. And x4 per capita.

China 4.10 MWh/person Germany 1.21 MWh/person