Comment on Lucid’s $50,000 Tesla Challenger Under Development, CEO Suggests

• Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are plenty of cars coming out of China at that price point. With decent range figures too.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because China has zero safety or intellectual property regulations.

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    • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That doesn’t stop them from existing, or being highly competitive. It’s up to western and Japanese car makers to compete rather than pretend it’s not happening.

      The cars also pass NCAP/ANCAP testing with 5 stars.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That doesn’t stop them from existing

        …what? Why would you even say that? Of course they “exist” but they don’t have to meet any of the safety or labor regulations they do in the US.

        But by all means if you want to further exploit cheap labor and drive a deathtrap, move to China.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  www.teslarati.com/…/amp/

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “working on” a car is not the same thing as selling a car…

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well you said tesla is the only one that can do it,and they are not, I reckon they are the one of the companies that can’t do it because they need big margins to expand

      Also

      17.5k pounds

      heycar.com/…/n2022-dacia-spring-electric--price--…

      Citroen ec3

      21K pounds

      ev-database.org/uk/car/2039/Citroen-e-C3#

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I reckon they are the one of the companies that can’t do it because they need big margins

        Quite the opposite. They’re one of the few who can because they have massive margins already.

        Tesla is about to have a bad time

        LMFAO 😂 you think these companies are going to take literally any business from Tesla? It’s a completely different market.

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• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not gonna happen until battery prices come wayyyy down.

  One would expect increasing the number of cars sold should drive economies of scale nine manufacturing.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To an extent, yes. But at this point there’s a production shortage and they can’t even make enough as it is. So it would actually cost MORE money to increase supply.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Presumably increasing demand should lead to ramping up of production over time, as it has in the past for pretty much everything

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, “over time”. Now is not that time.

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