This looks a great deal like the Defender that Land Rover introduced in 2018.
BYD's YangWang U8 launched, can float on water for 30 minutes and sail 3km/h
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#32I see China coming for the US auto industry, and fast. It’s 100% the fault of our industry for sitting around doing nothing but repackaging old technology in overpriced chonker trucks and trying to obstruct the EV transition with disinformation. All they want to do is sell the same mediocre gas guzzler forever. Innovators’ dilemma strikes again. Of course I guess Japan decimated US auto last time. It was kinda the sa…
Japanese car makers have huge U.S. presence with U.S. engineering employees. SuspectD will be asked to do the same.
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#33Seems like BYD has surpassed Tesla as the biggest EV maker as of the end of 2023: https://www.ft.com/content/716c9b0b-d8cd-491a-a91b-d70c1e540... ( https://archive.is/LOiYh ) I'm guessing that Musk's unwillingness to work with the rules and norms in the markets Tesla is trying to enter, will be Tesla's downfall. Hopefully Tesla could somehow get rid of Musk as it seems like he is constantly holding Tesla back quite a…
> I'm guessing that Musk's unwillingness to work with the rules and norms in the markets Tesla is trying to enter, will be Tesla's downfall. Hopefully Tesla could somehow get rid of Musk as it seems like he is constantly holding Tesla back quite a bit.
Like what? Source(s)?
Re: BYD's YangWang U8 launched, can float on water for 30 minutes and sail 3km/h
#34Seems like BYD has surpassed Tesla as the biggest EV maker as of the end of 2023: https://www.ft.com/content/716c9b0b-d8cd-491a-a91b-d70c1e540... ( https://archive.is/LOiYh ) I'm guessing that Musk's unwillingness to work with the rules and norms in the markets Tesla is trying to enter, will be Tesla's downfall. Hopefully Tesla could somehow get rid of Musk as it seems like he is constantly holding Tesla back quite a…
Huh? Literally I've seen people on HN making the exact opposite arguments about companies bending over rules for certain markets only to lose the market eventually, hence considered a bad example.
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#35It can also do 360 degree self centered turn, which should be useful. No more 3 point turns! Given the flexibility of installing the motors, I've always wondered why electric cars still can't move in a parallel way. That should be very handy when parallel parking.
> handy when parallel parking. If you love switching tires.
This is a feature that should only be used for off-roading. Off roads, it is extremely useful to be able to make small-radius turns.
Re: BYD's YangWang U8 launched, can float on water for 30 minutes and sail 3km/h
#36Seems like BYD has surpassed Tesla as the biggest EV maker as of the end of 2023: https://www.ft.com/content/716c9b0b-d8cd-491a-a91b-d70c1e540... ( https://archive.is/LOiYh ) I'm guessing that Musk's unwillingness to work with the rules and norms in the markets Tesla is trying to enter, will be Tesla's downfall. Hopefully Tesla could somehow get rid of Musk as it seems like he is constantly holding Tesla back quite a…
You'll have to wait for more than 1 quarter before you make that call.
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#37A car that floats ... but only with a mandatory fully open sunroof ... in a part of the world that gets typhoons.
Is the 30 minute time limitation an estimate on how long it'll take to fill it up in the rain with an open sunroof?
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#38It can also do 360 degree self centered turn, which should be useful. No more 3 point turns! Given the flexibility of installing the motors, I've always wondered why electric cars still can't move in a parallel way. That should be very handy when parallel parking.
Rivian advertised this feature as well but disabled it, for obvious reasons.
Obvious reason is immediate tire wear?
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#39Daaamn.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ll bite the bait, and will point out that Tesla sales this Q have been suppressed by people awaiting model refreshes.
> I’ll bite the bait I guess I'll do the same? Why have curious conversation when you can assume the worst? > Tesla sales this Q have been suppressed by people awaiting model refreshes You're just saying "Tesla had less sales because of bad $X" with fancier words. The importance is not why Tesla fucked up (that's up to them to figure out), but that they're now being surpassed even though they had a huge headstart.
Included in the stat are $10K cars sold in China, maybe Tesla doesn't want to compete in the extreme low end just like Apple doesn't make $150 phones. Being a profitable barely #2 in a large and growing market is somehow fucking up?
If you are world #2 in your field of work do you consider yourself a failure and that you fucked up? That's a sad existence.