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Succeeding in the electric vehicle business is no easy ride

Scores of electric car start-ups have been launched over the past few years, but many may have failed to recognise the size of the challenges involved. These include Nio, once the shining hope for Chinese electric car start-ups, which is flirting with collapse, while British company Dyson has recently announced it will abandon its electric vehicle project entirely.

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