China floods Brazil with cheap electric vehicles triggering backlash
China floods Brazil with cheap electric vehicles triggering backlash
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Most of the middle-class have been priced out of new cars in North America. We need those cheap cars here!
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BYD gets CCP funding to take over the global markets.
Not weird there's backlash when China is literally destroying jobs on a global scale.
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Ah yes, this is somehow China's fault and not that of the Western car manufacturers.
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Can't blame China for mismanagement.
In the US market for instance no US manufacturer makes a car with 4 doors under $40,000. And even then the cheapest one is a Tesla model 3. You know how electric cars cost more to make, it means that it's possible to make one but they refuse or are too incompetent to do so.
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This should be like when Japan started turning out cheap and reliable watches. The best safest and most cost effective products must be available for all. In the UK there's a huge market growth in EVs from Kia and Hyundai, (Korean), Volvo (Chinese), MG (Chinese). Recently BYD has taken the market by a little storm. Traditional manufacturers like Ford, BMW, VW etc. all late to the party, and only just catching up. They have been protected.
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Thank you BYD!
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The car market is due for an IBM level shakeup in the west. It’s unbelievable to me that Tesla is the sole manufacturer that creates cars with as good infotainment as a standalone tablet from Apple/Google. Not a single other carmaker other than Volvo can be considered objectively better than Tesla. It’s fucking insane that Chinese phone manufacturers slaughter everything on the market in terms of fluidity and ecosystem. I’m pretty sure Chinese cars even support Android auto when Google itself is heavily restricted in China. Even if you’re supporting China by buying one, it’s worth it to kick western manufacturers in the teeth so that they’ll be forced to compete.
My Ford F150 Lightning takes two whole seconds to register a volume change with an animation onscreen. It’s fucking unacceptable that this is being protected in the west.
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I feel this legacy auto really needs to catch up— I just don’t get it they have the money just hire 50 good software people and stick them in a room for 1.5 years and they could have a nice polished stack— just get your legacy hardware / software people to offer a nice api with good documentation for querying sensor data for the non critical infotainment system.
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Volvo lol
Let’s not forget , cars are for DRIVING
Volvos drive like utter shit
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The electric ones?
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Can they flood Canada with cheap EV as well?
You generally don't want to incentivize the practice of dumping since its goal is putting competition out of business.
Don't really care about the competition. I care about having cheap access to EVs. If the competition can't compete, then fuck em. That's not my problem.
Yeah, let's just have a repeat of the rare earth market. That worked out swell for the world to let an authoritarian government have a global monopoly.
With how shit the software is in American EVs we might as well skip the rare earths altogether
I don't think Canada needs poorly made and barely working Chinese crap.
Update: Hey, if you want to buy something Chinese, then go ahead, I can't stop you, but even if these products are not badly made, remember that you are supporting the Chinese regime (and probably Russia) by your actions, so don't pretend to be good and caring people later.
Better than American overpriced garbage.
Been to Mexico lately? BDS and other Chinese manufacturers are killing it, they make Teslas look like a Model T.
"What you talking about Doc? All the best stuff is made in China."
Yes, lets all support the USA, currently a bastion of freedom for all.