On: Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla

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Compared to the alternative where the domestic plants don’t exist at all because they are competing domestically with low cost foreign products?

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In that hypothetical they can't compete because of labour protectionism and immigration restrictions, not because there's some intrinsic reason it's too expensive to manufacture in one country versus another.