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How an obscure EV tax accidentally cost Ukraine thousands of battle bots this year
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A VAT tax on electric vehicles introduced in Ukraine in January has unintentionally impacted the country's ground drone (UGV) industry, which uses EV components, potentially costing the production of thousands of units according to an industry association.
How an obscure EV tax accidentally cost Ukraine thousands of battle bots this year
A ground drone delivers supplies in the streets of Kostyantynivka in Donetsk.
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A new tax meant for electric vehicles has come back to bite Ukraine's surging ground drone industry.
Without the 20% VAT, Ukraine could have produced 5,000 more UGVs, an industry association CEO said.
The tax, introduced in January, threw the local ground drone industry into disarray for months.
An electric vehicle tax that came into force this year inadvertently cost Ukraine th
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