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Originally Posted by prelude_prince
I work in the semiconductor industry and I have heard from our suppliers like Renesas that the Japanese government is actually holding back on the large automakers from going full EV , because they have to worry about the livelihood of the traditional automotive factory workers. There are much less assembly etc involved in building a EV. Not to mention as you all can see a lot of the factory workers in Japan aren't young guys but older folk.
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Not understanding this all that well. With widespread use of automation in automotive manufacturing, how many automotive factory workers do they still need? Besides, it isn't like Tesla employs zero factory workers to build their cars.