• @cyd
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    6 months ago

    Funny thing is, Chinese EVs are at the place where Japanese cars were back in the 1970s. Widely mocked as cheap crap, but consumers like them well enough, and the quality keeps improving. The US reacts by shutting them out of its market, but they’re doing awfully well everywhere else in the world…

    • @AA5B
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      76 months ago

      Hyundai/Kia tho …. We can’t lock out the Koreans and someone’s lunch is getting eaten

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Japan changed the manufacturing game.

      10 years later people are taking business trips to Japan to learn how to do it.

      I learnt about Japanese manufacturing in the last 10 years and started a career in it.

      • Echo Dot
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        16 months ago

        Toyota rather falling out of favour in recent years of course

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Partially because the Chinese government is good at covering up any negative news about them.

    • Echo Dot
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      6 months ago

      Even outside the US I would not want to buy a Chinese electric car. Can you imagine trying to get maintenance on that thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        I’m starting to see proper dealerships from brands like BYD so it’s not so far off. I don’t know the details but if they’re implemented physically in the region then I assume they provide maintenance.