Re:Germany's auto industry: suppliers' confidence waning
by gizmo on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:17AM
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Manufacturing cars by assembling parts from 1000+ suppliers is inherently inefficient. This is fine as long as every car company uses the same model. BYD doesn’t; they make 70% of the components used in their cars themselves. This gives them a fundamental cost advantage and European car shoppers are extremely price sensitive.
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Re:Germany's auto industry: suppliers' confidence waning
by vel0city on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:39AM
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Personally I don't like this shift to more parts being produced exclusively by the car manufacturer. It means the only real place to buy the part is the OEM who has an interest in selling me a whole new car. Meanwhile Denso and Bosch and whoever wouldn't mind just selling me a part through the many retail car parts stores.
Re:Germany's auto industry: suppliers' confidence waning
by jeffrallen on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:51AM
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Good luck getting the right cryptographic signatures for your part to be allowed by the CAN firewall to write on the CAN bus.