Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer
by roenxi on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:34PM
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I'm not sure about this specific case, but the general case is usually that China is using some technique that is illegal in the US. Or sometimes energy policy is the problem.
You mention Giga Berlin for example. Germany is suffering from the EU energy crisis (which really has been an ongoing thing since around 2008 when the per capita downtrend in energy took hold), so it wouldn't be weird if cars being produced there aren't competitive with Chinese-manufactured goods.
Similarly, US manufacturing doesn't seem to have the same vibrancy as Chinese work and the root causes seem to be environmental and labour law. It is also possible that the US just doesn't have the expertise; as far as I'm aware the US doesn't have an answer to Shenzhen (I'm happy to be told this is just ignorance, the US is a big place, but so far no dice).
You mention Giga Berlin for example. Germany is suffering from the EU energy crisis (which really has been an ongoing thing since around 2008 when the per capita downtrend in energy took hold), so it wouldn't be weird if cars being produced there aren't competitive with Chinese-manufactured goods.
Similarly, US manufacturing doesn't seem to have the same vibrancy as Chinese work and the root causes seem to be environmental and labour law. It is also possible that the US just doesn't have the expertise; as far as I'm aware the US doesn't have an answer to Shenzhen (I'm happy to be told this is just ignorance, the US is a big place, but so far no dice).