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Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by nodakai on Thursday November 23, 2023 @12:21AM (#38389627)
> As President of HW ELECTRO Hsiao Weicheng explained at the unveiling:

His name stood out to me. Growing up in Japan, I didn't come across names like that very often.

Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by jesterson on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:25AM (#38390657)
As a matter of fact, vast majority of "japanese" "startups" are basically chinese companies trying to hijack on waning popularity of japanese quality.

If you look close enough, almost everything is made in China.

Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by fomine3 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:31PM (#38399452)
Made in China products by Japanese ventures is fine, just like iPhone made in China. We know China is great at cost effective manufacturing. It's annoying that some "ventures" just rebadging existing Chinese products with Japan flag and minor improvement. Recently I tend to find such products in mobility area like this.
Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by jesterson on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:49PM (#38411025)
Rebadging is exactly what it is when you talk about made by japanese ventures. Nothing is made in japan anymore, however it s a secret noone is allowed to talk about.
Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by fomine3 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @10:25AM (#38414064)
"Nothing" can't be true. This is most interesting venture product I've seen recently https://vixion.jp/en/vixion01/
Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by jesterson on Sunday November 26, 2023 @04:16AM (#38420270)
You may be surprised how much of it is made not in Japan.

Thought we are grown up snd don’t understand things literally. Of course there are lots of things made in japan, but the point is, it’s way past its manufacturing times。

Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by fomine3 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:14PM (#38425565)
Manufactured in China is not a problem for non manufacturing oriented ventures, as I said it's like Apple. Though for EV, non manufacturing oriented EV car venture could be a nonsense.
Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by sdflhasjd on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:53AM (#38390472)
What makes it stand out?

To my English ears it sounds a little bit Chinese rather than Japanese names I see.

Re:Solar-powered Japanese tiny van 'PUZZLE' unveiled ahead o... by tdeck on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:06AM (#38390555)
It's a Chinese name. Specifically a name romanized using a system typically used in Taiwan, I think (you tend to see "hs" in Taiwanese names whereas in the PRC "Hsiao" would be "Xiao"). Taiwan has close ties to Japan so that's not too surprising really.