▲ 607 ▼ U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars (www.thedrive.com) submitted 6 months ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca 138 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 19 points 6 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago (1 child) China just makes better and cheaper cars. Why wouldn't they? After decades of being the west's factory they'd be stupid not to learn. And better is just upping the QA more than their western customers (who want the cheapest possible 'cos line must go up). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 months ago Better is a whole lot more than "upping the QA". The cars here are genuinely innovative and, more importantly, the logistical and fabrication techniques are innovative. One of the major reasons the big name Chinese EVs are cheaper than their roughly equivalent western counterparts is because the companies are vertical, not horizontal, in their supply chain. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago (1 child) China just makes better and cheaper cars. Why wouldn't they? After decades of being the west's factory they'd be stupid not to learn. And better is just upping the QA more than their western customers (who want the cheapest possible 'cos line must go up). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 months ago Better is a whole lot more than "upping the QA". The cars here are genuinely innovative and, more importantly, the logistical and fabrication techniques are innovative. One of the major reasons the big name Chinese EVs are cheaper than their roughly equivalent western counterparts is because the companies are vertical, not horizontal, in their supply chain. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 months ago Better is a whole lot more than "upping the QA". The cars here are genuinely innovative and, more importantly, the logistical and fabrication techniques are innovative. One of the major reasons the big name Chinese EVs are cheaper than their roughly equivalent western counterparts is because the companies are vertical, not horizontal, in their supply chain. permalink fedilink source parent