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The 'from GM' in the title is a little misleading. The manufacturer of this car, as described in the second paragraph, is SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. In this
by oska 6y ago
The 'from GM' in the title is a little misleading. The manufacturer of this car, as described in the second paragraph, is SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. In this 3 way joint venture SAIC Motor, a state-owned Chinese company, is the majority share-holder, owning 50.1%; GM owns 44%. [1] [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC-GM-Wuling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC-GM-Wuling
[2] https://www.gmchina.com/company/cn/en/gm/company/about-gm-china.html https://www.gmchina.com/company/cn/en/gm/company/about-gm-ch...
- ulfw 6y agoEverything written in the American press is from the side of America. Guess what - Pfizer isn’t inventing their Covid vaccine, it’s BioNTech. Johnson & Johnson didn’t invent theirs, it was Janssen (though at least the latter is now owned by J&J).
- jszymborski 6y agoI mean, those companies do different things in those partnerships, it would be unfair to say either company in those pairs are responsible for the vaccine.
- aiisjustanif 6y agoTell that to their stock price if the vaccines associated with them perform well.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> Johnson & Johnson didn’t invent theirs, it was Janssen I would 100% support a corporate renaming to Johnson & Johnson & Janssen.
- mlindner 6y agoThey're both subsidiaries of American companies though.
- ulfw 6y agoWhat American company owns BioNTech?
- throwaway4good 6y agoYes. It is mostly a Chinese car. However it is a cool idea and I would think the rest of the world can learn a lot from this: Instead of filling the freeways with queues of daily commuters sitting one person in a five person car, then driving around in something smaller suitable for one or two persons. As other have mentioned - it looks a bit like the French Citroen Ami: https://www.citroen.com/en/Highlight/131/ami-100-electric-mobility-accessible-to-all https://www.citroen.com/en/Highlight/131/ami-100-electric-mo... Which as far as I know is limited to 45 km/h. So maybe the problem here is too rigid legislation? That if it was allowed by law to drive faster etc. these things would useful enough to be popular.
- pjc50 6y agoUsually the limit there is crash safety. It's a difficult argument to make to the public that we should allow a slightly higher rate of death and serious injury in exchange for much less co2 emissions.
- throwaway4good 6y agoIt is all connected, isn't it? A Citroen Ami is less safe than a 2 tonne SUV but maybe not compared to a scooter and maybe not for its surroundings. So maybe we can push the massive SUVs out of the city and leave space for lighter vehicles. I don't have the numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if traffic in China is more safe than in Thailand or Vietnam which have all these gasoline-powered high speed scooters.
- adrianN 6y agoSpeed limits are quite effective at improving crash outcomes.
- jszymborski 6y agoIf most people drive smaller cars, and we reduce speed limits further, I would think we'd be at a similar rate of highway death/injury (which is already too high) if not maybe even lower. Then again, I don't design cars, and wouldn't know.