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> BYD started selling these [prismatic LFP] cells as grid-level battery packs to compete with Tesla, and they are a truly astonishing 53% cheaper per MWh than Tesla’s. What? Wow!
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I was always confused and intrigued what was going on behind the scenes when Tesla was so obviously and publicly rejected by the Biden administration in that manner. Musk was even then a polarising figure, but given Tesla was arguably more “American” than even the self-proclaimed traditional American car companies, it seemed a weird, self-defeating, perhaps emotional, position for the administration to take.
That 2021 event was very much not about EVs-in-general, but about supporting UAW as a union at a time when a lot of their jobs were about to be disrupted because Biden just signed an EO (14037) that pushed traditional automakers towards making more EVs (target being 40-50% by 2030, but it was non-binding). So, why were Ford, GM and Stellantis there but Tesla wasn't? Because Tesla was already making EVs only, because…
(The quote sounds simply like "we excluded Tesla because they are anti-union"...)
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Those links are all political views. Beyond the veracity of those numbers, it is a political decision whether or not the US should be spending $150B on foreigners or Americans.
The manner in which that decision is executed is very much a reflection of moral character.
And from what I remember, we weren't supposed to force others to follow our morals.
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The manner in which that decision is executed is very much a reflection of moral character.
Whose morals? Yours? And from what I remember, we weren't supposed to force others to follow our morals.