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Originally Posted by chedder
Just out of curiosity, why do you think the Chinese ev's are better than North American ones? And what does that chart mean? Edit saw your chart edit
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The quality and performance capacity of vehicles has traditionally been due to the reliability and performance of the engine and drive train. The cost was brought down due to the manufacturing of thousands of different parts in a very complex supply chain based largely around Western manufacturers. It's why no new entrants really made it big in the last number of decades and why Tesla was so unusual. China could never make it in that environment.
With the advent of the electric vehicle the quality and performance is almost entirely due to the battery and the software controlling it. China owns almost the entire supply chain, and owns most of the major innovations. I could go in for a long time, but China is rolling out most of the important battery advancements and already has the cheapest and most robust supply chain for batteries.
BYD, Geely (who owns Volvo), and Nio all have attractive and solidly built vehicles that are cheaper and just as good if not better than what Ford, GM, Stellantis or even vw make.
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