China Is Overtaking America. In an Electric Car.

https://www.thefp.com/p/china-is-overtaking-america-in-an-electric-car

by D-R-AZ

6 comments

  1. It may be that this type of international competition is one of the future drivers of environmentally friendly tech.

    Excerpts :

    In a statement, Biden’s then–commerce secretary Gina Raimondo said: “When foreign adversaries build software to make a vehicle, that means it can be used for surveillance, can be remotely controlled, which threatens the privacy and safety of Americans on the road.”

    She continued: “In an extreme situation, a foreign adversary could shut down or take control of all their vehicles operating in the United States all at the same time, causing crashes, blocking roads.”

    In his recent book, Apple in China, Patrick McGee has written about how the decision to manufacture iPhones in China has transferred a dangerous amount of technical expertise to a country that is not an ally of the United States. Similarly, the quality of Chinese EVs rose in no small part because they borrowed heavily from what they saw Elon Musk’s company doing, everything from the design of the car to its manufacturing standards.

    Kevin Williams, the Detroit-based correspondent for InsideEVs, drove the Xiaomi YU7 around bendy roads in Beijing, to compare it to the Tesla Model Y. “The interior is nicer. It’s significantly quieter. . . . It has a lot of software integration and a lot of thoughtful features that Tesla just doesn’t have.” He concluded, “Tesla is cooked.”

  2. Isn’t China also over taking America in Clean Energy as well?

  3. And the American response, naturally, is to tariff the world….”we will force the return to our good old days”, lol. That ship sailed a couple of generations ago America, never to return. They will be competing with N. Korea for the title of Hermit Kingdom if they keep this up, and with the National reading level equivalent coming in at a grade 5 level, I think they’ll achieve it.

  4. Every car manufacting country is overtaking the US. Under Trump, it won’t be long before the US is the loser in every industry.

  5. It’s wild how quickly china has gone from being viewed as “down and out”, (an enormous housing crisis, massive debt and an economy full of oversupply and companies making huge losses being propped up by government spending) to being back on top again.  

    It makes me wonder if it’ll flip back again when the US doesn’t have an absolute moron for an emperor.  The massive issues in China’s economy haven’t gone away, it’s just the US is currently making much bigger mistakes. 

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