Corporate investors pile into electric vehicle startups

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Risky business. I will stick to Tesla and the GM EV's of the future.

Invest in a vehicle charge pad, not plug ins.

Quite frankly I'd love to see money put into engineering of restructuring cars where they run on garbage like in Back To The Future.

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