Molson Hart

E-scooters are cheap motorbikes and for a country that wants to improve its supply chain anyways, what could be better than developing it for that, given that it would solve Other problems?

There are people working on this and I expect their orgs to do fine - but there are not resources for a largescale switch. I don’t expect anything close to a 50% electric marketshare in under a decade or two absent some massive external green funding source.

Sure, but...like I said, authoritarian country. China does stuff like that all the time. Vietnam has been the fastest growing economy of the past 10 years. If China can do it, so can Vietnam.

Your model is too simple. The analogy to China doesn’t really work as there are more internal competing interests. There also aren’t giant SEOs that can afford to fund whatever projects the leadership thinks up.

What are you talking about? How do you know Vietnam has more internal competing interests than China? Do you speak Chinese or Vietnamese? Pretty sure, I know more about both than you. There are giant SEOs in Vietnam, but sure, Vietnam by size is smaller than Guangdong.

Vietnam has multiple cell phone assembly factories, many run by samsung. If they can do that, they can FOR SURE, get this done. Even the United States, the backwards US, has e-scooters. Vietnam could import batteries and make the rest of the components domestically.