BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes

Post by bdangubic » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 3:48 PM UTC

Cumpiler69 wrote: post #70

RGamma wrote: post #62

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There's considerable risk in that strategy if taken to the extreme. Because you could eventually outsource virtually everything, including critical dependencies, and then just be left with a sort of pure military-financial hegemony, but that can be a rather unstable equilibrium. Not saying there's no tasteful way to stably approximate that state though (and even not requiring stepping on other's toes, which may actua…

>Because you could eventually outsource virtually everything That's reductionist. I never said anything about outsourcing everything. Ford and GM aren't going anywhere but it's clear their importance is dwindling and will just be allowed to be on life support in the future rather than a core part of the US economy.

Post by perelin » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 7:05 AM UTC

Cumpiler69 wrote: post #71

rawfan wrote: post #65

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No idea where you get your news on Germany, but the only valid thing was the part about the auto industry being legacy. As someone working in the energy sector, I can gladly tell you we got rid off most dependencies, we’re 95% independent regarding electricity. Oil and coal are still a problem, but we’re getting there. That ballooning welfare deficit you talk about must be a joke, what are you even saying? Germany ha…

> Please also point me to information on unions fighting EV because I haven’t heard anything about this (being active in the largest German union). To expand into EV means you need to let go from the declining ICE sector and unions are fighting against such job cuts meaning there's less money left to go to EV expansion. Is putting 2 and 2 together really that difficult?