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by dalyons 10mo ago
you're just repeating a list of tired anti-ev propoganda points, that have been debunked over and over. - they're not much that much heavier, class-for-class. Substantially lighter than the ridiculous ly oversized trucks that peop
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by dalyons 10mo ago
well they were a battery company first. I cant know for sure but i presume they bought the ice car manufacturing lines always with the intention of going fully electric over time.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Consumers in the US haven't actually been given a chance to show what they "want". The cheap EVs have been kept out, of course the $100k ones arent selling that well. Remove the tariffs and import restrictions, and then peop
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by dalyons 10mo ago
point taken on the motors. But perhaps drivetrain was the wrong word for what i was trying to focus on - perhaps "platform" is closer? As an elaboration - the legacies are still proudly talking up their upcoming "unified plat
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Hah there you go. Fun little bit of history
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by dalyons 10mo ago
I was under the impression that it was %30+, guess I’m wrong
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Agreed! He’s a great writer stylistically and w.r.t information density.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
FWIW this comes across as very condescending to me too. Maybe try a different framing.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Gas or ev? I thought the EVs were tariffed high
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Interesting thank you. When I was there in 2012 or so I was surprised to see a huge number of small Daewoo branded cars, a long extinct brand in the west. Small getabouts seemed very popular. That was a long time ago I know, but I imagine s
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by dalyons 10mo ago
They “just” were a battery company then. Is that considered tech?
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Legacy automakers EVs are just ICE cars with the engine swapped out. Whereas BYDs, teslas etc are a ground up rethink, vertically integrated with battery manufacturing and software. Classic innovators dilemma - it seems to be almost impossi
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Hrm? They can and are selling to the rest of the world (except NA and Europe)
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Which country?
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by dalyons 10mo ago
I mean you don’t have to go off vibes - this has historically happened in every protectionist industry. The protected companies make a worse and more expensive product
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Couldn’t agree more. And the niche market will only hold on because of protectionism. If the US let in the wave of cheap EVs that are coming, people would buy them - suddenly noone is going to care about “range anxiety” when you can get a
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Which is direct evidence for what would happen if they were allowed to sell fairly into the US and Europe. The future of cars is Chinese, the US automakers can’t survive on protectionism forever
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Reality is they’re just getting fired.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
You can’t use trends from 1980, because cheap renewables didn’t really exist until ~2023. 86% of all power generation china added in 2025 was renewable. Renewable and battery is now ( recently) cheaper than coal. They are not stupid, that’s
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by dalyons 10mo ago
I think they are, but more by accident. They’re going to industrialize with renewables, batteries, EVs and electric everything. It’s inevitable due to economics
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Are you lost? A bot? This kind of hate doesn’t belong on hn
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by dalyons 10mo ago
You can’t actually buy BYDs in the US at all?
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by dalyons 10mo ago
Rivian recently moved away from mobileye in their newer models, because mobileye is are far behind and limited. The progression of their new in house driver assistance since then is already proving that was a good choice.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
It’s always personal hate, or personal grift. There is no strategy here
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by dalyons 10mo ago
The reason is observatories are woke, apparently
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by dalyons 10mo ago
If batteries get cheap enough, the fixed extra cost for the complexity of the additional ER system will become prohibitive & uncompetitive. Who wants to pay extra for a car with >1000ml range? Almost no-one, it’s unnecessary for 99.9
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by dalyons 10mo ago
This old talking point? Studies show that EVs break even with ICE cars for total lifecycle emission in the first 1-2 years, or 15-30kkm.
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by dalyons 10mo ago
i mean, they are a lie as they exist today. They were sold as low emissions vehicles (and in the EU this lets them avoid a bunch of regulations!) but real world data shows they have negligible emissions impact. Just because people _could_
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by dalyons 10mo ago
i tried to find some data that isnt chatgpt. [1] & [2] show that about 60-65% of pickups are owned by people living in urban/suburban settings. of the rest, its kind of hard to find a breakdown for situations like your own, but le
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by dalyons 10mo ago
they save amazon a ton of money. urban circular delivery circuits and stop-start braking make it brutal for gas and perfect for EVs.

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