> In 2025, after a £12m investment, YASA opened the UK's first axial-flux super factory, in Oxfordshire.

It’s a little sad to me that fundamental innovations in electromechanical engineering like this get just a few million in investment, yet if this had been yet another derivative software startup with “AI” in the pitch, they’d probably have 10x+ or more investments being thrown at them.

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FabHK 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Seems to me everyone wants to invest, instead, into something that can be "web scale" with low marginal cost, that is, natural monopolies. There is not enough anti-trust enforcement.

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mlmonkey 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They should have named their company "YASAI" (pronounced as "Yes AI") and just watched the investments roll in ...

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elguyosupremo 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're owned by Mercedes, I'm sure they probably have access to the capital they need.

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bobsmooth 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Factories take time to build. "Investors" want a get rich quick scheme.

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coryrc 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or maybe it's not as important as they make it sound.

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DrBazza 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Welcome to the UK and its innovation hostile environment. We don't have the US culture of throwing VC money at things and seeing what sticks.

	▲	FabHK 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is less UK vs US, more hardware vs software.