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The next question is: why did China give Tesla this unprecedented deal? The answer I heard at the time was to get local suppliers and workforce up to Tesla sta
by consumer451 1y ago
The next question is: why did China give Tesla this unprecedented deal?
The answer I heard at the time was to get local suppliers and workforce up to Tesla standards.
It appears to have worked out for China quite nicely.
- gman83 1y agoWell yeah, they used this playbook with Apple as well.
- consumer451 1y agoWe do not appear to be very smart as a country.
- immibis 1y agoIt's not a country - it's a collection of individual billionaires. Each billionaire involved in these kinds of deals gets richer, and has no reason to care about anyone else.
- consumer451 1y agoYes, but we’ve apparently chosen to run our country in such a way.
- RobotToaster 1y ago"we" never got any say in the matter.
- immibis 1y agoBy not doing anything to stop it, we agreed to it. No options to stop it were presented, but we weren't limited to the presented options.
- lillecarl 1y agoThat answer is American propaganda, Teslas (especially earlier ones) are famous for their crappy build quality. Tesla would be nothing without the Elon hypetrain. Chinese Teslas had higher standards early on, panels aligned and such.
- eunos 1y agoCatfish effect. Ensure local players just don't become welfare queen mooching subsidy and incentives from govt both local and national.