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China's plan to sell cheap EVs to the rest of the world
- 082349872349872 2y agoThe Kuleshov Effect I get from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593373 is that this hed sounds like good news (and someone else stepping up to compete fair and square would be even better?)
- defrost 2y agoA key perspective from the article: The resurrection of a car plant in Brazil’s poor north-east stands as a symbol of China’s global advance — and the west’s retreat. BYD, the Shenzhen-based conglomerate, has taken over an old Ford factory in Camaçari, which was abandoned by the American automaker nearly a century after Henry Ford first set up operations in Brazil. ... The new Brazil plant is no outlier — it falls into a wave of corporate Chinese investment in electric vehicle manufacturing supply chains in the world’s most important developing economies. Perhaps the larger Indian companies can also find a slice of the developing economies.
- ciconia 2y agohttps://archive.ph/cQzaB https://archive.ph/cQzaB