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Europe's Battle Against Chinese EVs Isn't a Repeat of 2000s Solar Flood

Cheap Chinese solar panels crushed European companies, but the lessons from that saga don’t apply to the auto industry’s current problems.

Chinese companies had a big presence at Germany’s top car show this year.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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European Union leaders say their investigation into whether Chinese subsidies are giving its companies an unfair advantage in the electric-vehicle market stems from being burned before.