China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks

Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by sangnoir on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:44PM (#18590898)

A top level commenter mentioned Geely-owned London Taxi Company is building electrified black cabs. Geely also happens to own Volvo: I think an electric Volvo will do very well in the high-end against Tesla.

Also, if China decides it needs extra EV battery capacity, expect the total number to significantly increase, and Tesla's slice will shrink (in relative terms).

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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by Green_man on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:39PM (#18591546)

Volvo's ex-performance brand, polestar, is being spun off into a hybrid and electric only manufacturer. They are starting off with the Polestar 1, a hybrid sports coupe, but after that, the polestar 2 and polestar 3 are planned to be electric (sedan and suv, respectively). Polestar 1 will be out of reach for most ($150k), as well as being in a coupe form factor. its competitors will likely be honda NSX, and maybe DB11 or R8. But it will be interesting to see how Polestars future products do.

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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by sangnoir on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:17PM (#18603672)

Car technology always filters down from high-end models to daily drivers over time - today the tech will be in Polestar, in 5 years, it will be in Volvo's generic platform covering several models. Even Tesla kicked things off with the expensive roadster and the tech filtered to cheaper cars, and this follows a long tradition (power steering, airbags, traction control, cruise control were all premium models features at some point but are now standard)

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