Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car

• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s unsustainable to keep prices lower than costs. The Amazon example didn’t have low prices forever.

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, I know. That’s why BYD is going to then squeeze the customers once they are locked in.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thus, not sustainable, as I said.

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      • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It worked for Wal-Mart

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      • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What is sustainable in today’s economy?

        Really, what Western corporation actually base their policies on sustainable growth?

        Take your time. I’ll wait.

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• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think your muddying sustainable and successful. It definitely can be successful, but its not sustainable.

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    feddit.org/comment/7714367

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    • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sustainable implies that they can keep doing it forever without changing. Switching later means what they are doing is not sustainable. It might be successful, but its not sustainable.

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s sustainable practices and sustainable businesses. The latter is what others are arguing. Undercutting competition to take over a market is a sustainable practice IF you can hold out long enough. I’d wager the country of China can hold out longer than General Motors.

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• Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It might just be that, since BYD is serving such a large domestic market/population, that allows them to have cheaper cars? Something something, economies of scale. I’m no expert though.

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There is a limit to that effect, though. And most observers agree that the state is subsidizing heavily.

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• jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  BYD is already facing scrutiny for running Evergrande like accounting, and a lot of political pressures from other Chinese manufacturers. The risk is that they collapse like Evergrande, and that they drag public debt into it. The CCP might prop them up, so it light be safe. A car is different from a book, because you need lifetime service for it. If they go under, you might lose access to parts.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You forgot the part where they raised prices on everything.

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    feddit.org/comment/7714367

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