It is also anchored in a populist movement whose scale has no equivalent in Europe.

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It requires a stage of equivalent scale and self-confidence.

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Equivalent endeavours, albeit smaller in scale, have been and are underway in Japan, Europe, China and South Korea.

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The trial, along with a previously announced urban equivalent in Leicester, will depend on small-scale production of the vehicles.

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Although those first prototypes will have storage roughly equivalent to NAND flash at tens of gigs per circuit, the plan is to rapidly scale up to 100s of gigs and finally to 1TB on a single chip.

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