Except since in japan you can patent basically everything, the application is much stricter. See how nintendo has patents for “capturing a monster using a ball” and other general stuff.

IIRC, there was a japanese company (capcom, maybe?) that had a patent on showing shadows of the characters when they weren’t visible on screen due to a wall or tree covering them.

It’s been years that I’ve been saying that europe and america fucked up big time with EVs. I am a middle class person who wants to buy an electric car. What are my alternatives? Either a +40k € car from the traditional brands that offers me the bare minimum in battery capacity or a BYD that costs under 30k offering me something acceptable. Now, why should I not pick up byd? Because it’s chinese? Well, don’t want me to buy chinese? Then fucking make a car people can afford?

In europe, for an electric car of a non chinese brand it’s either 40k for the bare minimum, or +60k for the luxury segment that I can’t afford anyway.