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In USA, EVs are traditionally built as an aspirational rather than utilitarian article. Tesla will design whatever it wants, make it expensive, and you will buy

In USA, EVs are traditionally built as an aspirational rather than utilitarian article. Tesla will design whatever it wants, make it expensive, and you will buy it if you want to be cooler than your peers. Chinese sell cheap EVs because they're regular cars no one will envy. Or in a crude analogy, USA sells EVs like iPhones, China sells them like Androids.

hencq 2y ago
A nice stereotype, but it doesn't seem to really match reality. See for example: https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/ https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west... At least Chinese consumers (and increasingly more European consumers) just seem to prefer the Chinese EVs.
- ASalazarMX 2y ago
  The analogy holds in more than one way. For example, iPhones will gain/lose features at the convenience of Apple (even the bigger screen had to wait until a new CEO was in charge). You buy it as it was designed, the same as you buy a Cybertruck. They behave like designer brands. Chinese EVs are more focused on what people need, and brands have a wider range of offers, similar to how you can find budget or flagship Androids to suit your tastes. They behave similar to traditional auto makers.
shiroiushi 2y ago
>Or in a crude analogy, USA sells EVs like iPhones, China sells them like Androids. I don't think that's fair to Android phones. Android phones come in a huge range of prices and feature levels, from cheap-o $40 phones with crappy displays but that will do everything you need, albeit with crappy photos, to $1500 phones with much better specs than the top-end iPhone and camera lenses from Switzerland. Perhaps you mean "utilitarian, budget model Androids".
- ZeroGravitas 2y ago
  High-end Chinese EVs are super luxury and beat western EVs on all sorts of specs, and come in all sorts of form factors, so the analogy holds, even if that's not what the original commenter intended. Check out the Xiaomi car the CEO of Ford drives as just one example.

hencq 2y ago

A nice stereotype, but it doesn't seem to really match reality. See for example: https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/ https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west... At least Chinese consumers (and increasingly more European consumers) just seem to prefer the Chinese EVs.

ASalazarMX 2y ago
The analogy holds in more than one way. For example, iPhones will gain/lose features at the convenience of Apple (even the bigger screen had to wait until a new CEO was in charge). You buy it as it was designed, the same as you buy a Cybertruck. They behave like designer brands. Chinese EVs are more focused on what people need, and brands have a wider range of offers, similar to how you can find budget or flagship Androids to suit your tastes. They behave similar to traditional auto makers.

shiroiushi 2y ago

>Or in a crude analogy, USA sells EVs like iPhones, China sells them like Androids. I don't think that's fair to Android phones. Android phones come in a huge range of prices and feature levels, from cheap-o $40 phones with crappy displays but that will do everything you need, albeit with crappy photos, to $1500 phones with much better specs than the top-end iPhone and camera lenses from Switzerland. Perhaps you mean "utilitarian, budget model Androids".

ZeroGravitas 2y ago
High-end Chinese EVs are super luxury and beat western EVs on all sorts of specs, and come in all sorts of form factors, so the analogy holds, even if that's not what the original commenter intended. Check out the Xiaomi car the CEO of Ford drives as just one example.