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I can afford it. But I won't buy it because of the uncertainty that any BEV-maker that hasn't come close to making a net profit, and especially those - like NIO - which continue to suffer bigger losses every year, will not be around to support me as an owner of one of its cars at some unknown point in the near term.
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