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

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Have you seen those byd cars on YouTube. Their mid price cars look like high end Mercedes over here. Meanwhile Ford and Chevy will sell you a $75000 pickup with all plastic interior.

  None of the legacy companies are competing. Ever. The best we can hope for is rivian and other new players filling the gap.

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  • dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve test driven a few BYD models here in Australia. 50 thousand dollarydoos for an electric car that goes 400+km, can power your house in a blackout, has all the normal electric car performance (6 seconds to 100kmhr) and is chock full of user comforts and safety features.

    There are a LOT of these getting around in Brisbane, and for good reason. I didn’t get one this time round, but by the time the lease expires on my Volvo EX30 in 4 years, I’ll be looking pretty hard at BYD. Especially if they get their new solid state batteries going by then.

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• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The income stream would disappear, their operations would collapse and that would just be the end. There would not be another manufacturer that would flourish in the void left behind. Without the institutional know how and the existing structure, supply chain the current car manufacturing industry would never be able to restart if it ever stopped.

  The social darwinism of the globalist free market is meant for crushing the spirit and bargaining power of individual workers, they are replaceable, disposable, interchangeable. General Motors and Ford aren’t.

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think that’s kind of the point. What the current case industry is doing is getting them smoked. They need to let go of the past the “institutional knowledge” that’s exactly why Ford and Chevy won’t compete with Chinese EV. Those are built from the ground up for the modern era with modern leadership modern supply chains building institutional knowledge that matters today and into the future.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The problem is the world is transitioning to EVs, and burying your head in the sand won’t change that. Legacy manufacturers could be trying to find their place in the new world while they can, or they can stick with technology of the past, let someone else come to dominate the new technologies, and be left with a ever shrinking market until they disappear

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well they’d have to cut c-suite and shareholder’s cut because everything else that could be squeezed out has already been squeezed out, so the c-suite and shareholder will convert their money into the political power it takes to just block out the competition.

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