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Chinese EVs have a lot of friction entering new markets like EU so they can't afford an obvious failure point that Pedon thinks he may get through with. They want to sell millions of cars and a possible scrutiny based on an arbitrary design decision is not a part they'd want in their plan. Being marked death traps, not by a model or manufacturer but as a producing country as a whole gonna hurt them a lot.