cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15089465
Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s ‘Scary’ For The Rest Of The Auto Industry
Whose fault is it?
Chinese EV manufacturers, on the other hand, are already five to 10 years ahead of their American and European rivals, Kumar said. A lot of that is thanks to aggressive investments in the EV industry from the Chinese government.
From the average American’s perspective? Probably still China. China always bad. Always.
Americans are also so lacking in moral consistency that they’ll throw their racism and xenophobia to the side just to save $1.
Has anyone released an electric car which came with an extra battery for trip replacements, and gave you the ability to buy more batteries for longer trips?
Yes. Chaina even: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w
There’s trucks with swappable batteries but it all lacks a universal format.
at this point I’m open to chinese world hegemony if it means I get a house, a union, and a carbon neutral economy
China has aggressive eminent domain, no independent unions, just one state permitted “union,” and is still the world’s biggest polluter with emissions that are not on the decline.
Which makes it a pretty safe bet they wouldn’t actually end up supporting China and this is just hyperbole.
obviously I’ll be throwing bombs if it actually happens
Even Chinese people don’t want to be living in China. See Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Is that statement supported by any sources?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/04/asia-pacific/young-hong-kongers-xi-china/
“American companies are scared of the open market when it works against them, yet refuse to make better products”
There is a good reason why American companies are scared. It almost never works out for them. Sony vs Zenith TVs is a great example about how a foreign company improved on a technology (color tv) and made zenith look like a stingy dinosaur overnight. Instead of selling color TV’s zenith just doubled down and sold cheaper shittier TV’s. By the time color was standard, their reputation was ruined and no one wanted a Zenith when Sony was the best. Sony however wouldn’t have been able to get into the market without help from zenith in the first place.
They should stop choosing the “double down on making products shittier part”.
You could’ve been telling the story of the 80s automotive industry. Or really any American manufacturer.
I am curious about how the QA is going to be. When Chinese companies decide to do QA, it’s awesome. When they don’t, its beyond bad.
This’ll be fun to watch, actually.
Made in China Tesla’s are better build then US made ones.
https://electrek.co/2020/08/03/tesla-made-in-china-cars-lead-market-quality/
Also there are already many Chinese EVs sold around the world for quite some time with no known major recalls.
