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> I'm even questioning the narrative that he actually had much to do with kicking off the EV revolution I detest Musk, but Tesla was/is one of CATL's largest c
by alephnerd 2y ago
> I'm even questioning the narrative that he actually had much to do with kicking off the EV revolution
I detest Musk, but Tesla was/is one of CATL's largest customers. Without Tesla, the capital to jumpstart the EV Battery industry within China wouldn't truly exist.
- mlinhares 2y agoYeah, they would definitely be there eventually but I doubt they would be there now without Tesla, there just wasn't much interest in electric cars back then.
- blueside 2y agoThere is no question that Tesla helped accelerate EV adoption in China but BYD's significant battery R&D was already underway and would have happened with or without Elon
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI rode in an EV BYD taxi in 2016. However, I don’t think EVs would have caught on as fast in China without the Model S setting an example that EVs were viable as full ICE car replacements (they definitely were already there before the Model 3 validated mass market adoption).
- bamboozled 2y agoYou have to admit though, there's a difference between saying "never" or "as fast".
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI think the comment I replied to was edited.
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoCome on. The CCP would have backed CATL and BYD regardless, like they have with silicon solar panels and hundreds of other manufacturing segments.