For an article that size, it’s surprisingly light on actual numbers and facts. A lot of auto-show impressions, lots of “ooh look at that” and “ooh that feels nice”, even more he-said-she-saids, but no proper comparisons. It’s also pretty incoherent and it features A LOT of chinese praise, including whole paragraphs of praising tiktok ( in a friggin car article ). Yeah, I’m not gonna hold my breath that “western car makers are cooked” just based on what this guy wrote.
It’s full of comparisons, some examples:
I’d later learn that the auto show had more than 100 new model debuts and concepts. That’s a far cry from the Detroit Auto Show last September, which only featured one fully new model. Two other models were refreshed versions of current cars already on sale. None were electric.
Western automakers aren’t entangled deeply with tech companies in ways that would serve the end user, Chinese or otherwise. They didn’t get way ahead of the curve to establish a battery supply chain in the ways China did. And they don’t seem to want to cater to the Chinese market (or any market, rather) through continuous updates and agility with their product line.
Even Tesla in China can’t be bothered to update one of its most important products, the Model Y, in this hyper-competitive market. Instead, it relies on margin-hurting gimmicks to move units, like constant price cuts, subsidized trade-in incentives, and 0% financing to get customers to buy a car that is aged and now uncompetitive.
Tesla didn’t even have a presence at the Beijing Auto Show. Elon Musk came and went to Beijing during the show, only to make a case for his robotaxi pivot with government officials. It’s like he’s already given up on cars here.
GM blew it here too. Up until the Beijing Auto Show’s debut of a PHEV version, the GL8 was one of the few vans in the segment without any plug-in capabilities. Green-plated New Energy vehicles are an important market in China, as are luxury vans. Why weren’t Western automakers paying attention? Why didn’t GM get an electrified vehicle on sale faster?
If anyone thinks lemmy doesn’t have bots: so far 4 of my downvoters are from accounts created during the reddit exodus, and have zero comments or posts.
People read and lurk. It’s not a new phenomena. If they are bots, it would have to be the saddest smallest swarm ever.
They could do it manually for some reason.
Oh absolutely. That would be extremely petty and pointless. But definitely within the realm of possibility. But it wouldn’t be bots. It’s just as possible it could be people who just don’t like bourgeoisie propaganda. Regardless of whether it is Western or Chinese bourgeoisie pushing it. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
It is however supremely illustrative of the Privacy problems Lemmy as a whole has. Any admin of any Federated service can see all that activity at any time. You’d just hope that a moderator or administrator of a larger instance such as this would have a thicker skin. 4 down votes and they go searching for a reason to be a victim of something? I think it’s something perhaps we’ve all done at one point in time or wondered to ourselves. But ante out that way publicly never a good look for anyone with authority.
I tried to bring a number of people over at that time when I joined. I know many of them browse and likely vote. But I also know that many of them don’t interact or comment much due to the association with ML. I thought it a little too paranoid on their part. But Behavior like this doesn’t help. Honestly about nine times out of 10 when I comment on an ml domain hosted Community or thread. It’s because I didn’t check. And just engaged with the content. I know there are others that feel the same. So it’s not that far-fetched for people to read and vote but not interact.
Before / during the reddit exodus, a lot of servers had open registrations, and every time I see a no-content account, it’s from that time period. Almost no new accounts on any lemmy server are zero-content ones.
Not sure how lemmy compares but it isn’t unusual for user generated content online to follow a 1:9:90 distribution of posters, commenters, and lurkers. Just look a the number of upvotes a post gets compared to the number of comments it has and you can tell that most people who vote dont also comment.
I rarely comment because internet discussions tend towards arguments. I usually just upvote comments that already say what I was going to comment anyways.
Why the hell didn’t we subsidize our EV-building and clean energy industries like China did?
Big oil?
Sure, but in a more general sense, capitalists. The bourgeois Founding Fathers created a government for themselves, and the bourgeoisie have kept it. “Bourgeois Democracy”: What Do Marxists Mean by That Term?
What the fuck is “insideevs.whatever” and why is their take relevant to anything?
That’s not purely a complaint about source, I sure as hell can’t keep track of every valid and useful site on every subject. Is there a reason their opinion matters?
It’s a site that reviews EVs, and they’ve been around for a while.
Yep. Capitalists in the US stand above its political system, and the oil and US auto industries oppose green energy.
It’s not just at the national level, but at the local one too. Petro-profits even dictate how US cities are laid out.
10 BVD EV dealerships burned to a crisp? No thanks!
LOL! Gotta love that ‘EVs = FIRE!!!’ narrative.
‘Fire at 10 dealerships’ doesn’t sound nearly as clickbaity as ‘10 dealerships burned to a crisp’.
And if you see a picture of that 10th dealership, only the showroom burned down. ‘a total of seven vehicles were destroyed in this latest fire, and several privately-owned vehicles (at the location for repairs) were also damaged in the incident’. There were dozens of cars in the dealership lot that were untouched. I won’t even go into BYD’s claim that ‘the source of the fire did not come from their car on display. But from a room on the second floor of the building’
But I guess we have different sources, and live in different bubbles.
I’m not sure how many showrooms I am comfortable with catching on fire in 3 years, lol.
BYD also benefits heavily from investigating these themselves and downplaying them.
Lmao. Then you’ll be very uncomfortable about a bunch of other brands too
Simplest search: fires at car dealerships usa
Fires happen all the time, everywhere.
You were extolling the virtues of skepticism and critical thinking in another post, so the bar is set a little higher - did you do a count of fires at dealerships per brand, so we’re not comparing the number of fires of a specific brand in China to the number of fires of all brands across the US?
It would also be helpful to primarily look at the most common car brands sold in the us first.
Great idea!
Go for it!
So you haven’t actually done the research, and you were trying to convince me that byd cars are a safe brand by sharing arbitrary news articles for dealership fires across all brands of cars in the USA? That’s not very convincing, lol.
I did a preliminary search of Buick, Volkswagen, etc. and there were less fires in the same time span for those brands.
That’s not what I was on about. I’m not pro any brand in particular.
It was a simple search to show fires happen at dealerships of other brands too. And as you’ve now found there is no reliable independent data on fires at dealerships by brand.
So, nobody can really state whether BYD has more or less dealership fires than any other brand.
