Maybe Geely should ponder alternative routes to success eg Lesbaru and LGBT car buyers or Mazda with premium lite car market
New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China
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Tears of joy as BYD's market cap reached RMB1 trillion (US$149 billion). It took BYD 27 years to get here.
BYD has overtaken VW to become the 3rd most valuable auto maker in the world, behind only Tesla (#1) and Toyota (#2).
I can feel for Wang Chuanfu. Twenty-seven years' hard work to build an industrial empire, not your overnight internet or bitcoin riches.
Wang grew up in rural Wuhu, Anhui Province of China. His father died of cancer when he was 13; his mother died too when he was 15. He was an excellent student and almost gave up the opportunity of going to college because he could not afford, before his sister-in-law sold her dowry to send Wang to college. Wang later went to Shenzhen and started his battery business in 1995 with borrowed money from his cousin.
An actual hustler, unlike Elon apartheid mine owner parents Musk
Is there a biographer of this man?
To be fair, Elon has had to hustle as well
Well he's broken the heart of India, as India has pined on Hyperloop every year to overtake China in rail technology
He is literally giga chad, from nobody to the CEO of a leading EV company. I have always admired and respected someone like him.
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@weig2000 Bro he , Ren ZhengFei of Huawei, Li Shufu of Geely, Zhang Ruimin of Haier don't need a Western MBA to be successful, in fact without having a Western education is the reason for their success. Western MBA is an initiation to enter a fraternity, you learned to hassle people to earned your stripe.
I thought I'll never see the day when A German Tesla owner want his Car replaced with a Chinese Built one....lol
There are multiple cases in which carmakers punish customers by not admitting defects instead of preventing or fixing them in a timely manner – even if that eventually happens. Lately, Tesla has been doing this more often than the rest of the pack, as an example from Germany makes it very clear. Imagine buying a brand-new car with three of its four jacking points cracked…
8 Jun 2022, 11:50 UTC ·
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That’s what happened to an engineer who spent €54,000 ($57,467 at the current exchange rate) on a Model 3 Long Range (LR) in February 2021. When his new EV needed to replace the winter tires in spring, he noticed that the underbody had dents and that most of the jacking points were fractured. You can check the damages in our gallery.
After investigating the situation, the engineer discovered that more customers had the same issue and learned that a robot at the Fremont factory caused it. In other words, Tesla could not argue that he was the one to damage his car. According to Christoph Lindner, his lawyer, the company even “admitted in writing the production process was amended to avoid such defects.” Tesla fixed its production process on April 26, 2021.
Lindner also told autoevolution that he does not have a precise number of vehicles affected by the cracked jacking points. However, he estimates them to be thousands or even tens of thousands. The attorney created the website (Tesla Attorney) to assist customers affected by the multiple issues presented by the company's EVs. If you have an American Model 3 produced and delivered around the same time, you should verify your vehicle’s underbody.
We learned about this story thanks to . The German website named this Tesla customer by a fictitious name because his case is now in court. The Model 3 LR owner tried to solve everything amicably by showing Tesla the damages and asking for the repair. First, the EV maker told him that the issues he found were just cosmetic and tried to fix them by merely painting them.
When the engineer rightfully argued that it was not enough, the in Berlin told him that the problems were not covered under warranty, which is not true. The EV maker establishes a four-year or a 50,000-mile (80,467-kilometer) limit “to correct any defect in material or workmanship in any part manufactured or supplied by Tesla that is used under normal conditions.” The Model 3 still respects both conditions, and it came with fractured jacking points, as Tesla itself recognized.
Apart from denying him warranty coverage, the Tesla Service Center also said that the only repair possible was replacing the battery pack. That would cost the customer €15,000 ($15,963) if he decided to pay for it, which he didn’t. The engineer preferred to ask Lindner for help.
The attorney filed a lawsuit at the Munich I District Court in September 2021 and asked for an independent car inspection. The German court assigned a DEKRA expert to check the EV, which was done in April 2022. The conclusion was that the would never pass the first of its regular inspections – required for any car to be allowed on public roads. Without the necessary repairs, this EV will only be drivable on public roads until 2024.
The 34-year-old engineer who bought the Model 3 is not asking for his money back: he wants to replace the vehicle. However, he will not accept one made in the U.S. anymore. Instead, the Tesla customer wants it to be a Chinese unit and that it is flawless this time.
The EV maker now has a deadline to comment on the results. Lindner thinks that the EV maker may try to dispute the specialist’s conclusion. If it recognizes the inspection was correct, it may have to recall thousands of cars to replace the battery pack not only in Germany but also in other countries where the Fremont-made Model 3 may have been sold. We’ll keep an eye on similar cases and also on this one: it promises to be relevant to more people than just to this Model 3 owner.
There are multiple cases in which carmakers punish customers by not admitting defects instead of preventing or fixing them in a timely manner – even if that eventually happens. Lately, Tesla has been doing this more often than the rest of the pack, as an example from Germany makes it very clear. Imagine buying a brand-new car with three of its four jacking points cracked…
Tesla Sells Brand-New Model 3 With Three Cracked Jacking Points in Germany, Gets Sued
> >8 Jun 2022, 11:50 UTC ·
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That’s what happened to an engineer who spent €54,000 ($57,467 at the current exchange rate) on a Model 3 Long Range (LR) in February 2021. When his new EV needed to replace the winter tires in spring, he noticed that the underbody had dents and that most of the jacking points were fractured. You can check the damages in our gallery.
After investigating the situation, the engineer discovered that more customers had the same issue and learned that a robot at the Fremont factory caused it. In other words, Tesla could not argue that he was the one to damage his car. According to Christoph Lindner, his lawyer, the company even “admitted in writing the production process was amended to avoid such defects.” Tesla fixed its production process on April 26, 2021.
Lindner also told autoevolution that he does not have a precise number of vehicles affected by the cracked jacking points. However, he estimates them to be thousands or even tens of thousands. The attorney created the website (Tesla Attorney) to assist customers affected by the multiple issues presented by the company's EVs. If you have an American Model 3 produced and delivered around the same time, you should verify your vehicle’s underbody.
We learned about this story thanks to . The German website named this Tesla customer by a fictitious name because his case is now in court. The Model 3 LR owner tried to solve everything amicably by showing Tesla the damages and asking for the repair. First, the EV maker told him that the issues he found were just cosmetic and tried to fix them by merely painting them.
When the engineer rightfully argued that it was not enough, the in Berlin told him that the problems were not covered under warranty, which is not true. The EV maker establishes a four-year or a 50,000-mile (80,467-kilometer) limit “to correct any defect in material or workmanship in any part manufactured or supplied by Tesla that is used under normal conditions.” The Model 3 still respects both conditions, and it came with fractured jacking points, as Tesla itself recognized.
Apart from denying him warranty coverage, the Tesla Service Center also said that the only repair possible was replacing the battery pack. That would cost the customer €15,000 ($15,963) if he decided to pay for it, which he didn’t. The engineer preferred to ask Lindner for help.
The attorney filed a lawsuit at the Munich I District Court in September 2021 and asked for an independent car inspection. The German court assigned a DEKRA expert to check the EV, which was done in April 2022. The conclusion was that the would never pass the first of its regular inspections – required for any car to be allowed on public roads. Without the necessary repairs, this EV will only be drivable on public roads until 2024.
The 34-year-old engineer who bought the Model 3 is not asking for his money back: he wants to replace the vehicle. However, he will not accept one made in the U.S. anymore. Instead, the Tesla customer wants it to be a Chinese unit and that it is flawless this time.
The EV maker now has a deadline to comment on the results. Lindner thinks that the EV maker may try to dispute the specialist’s conclusion. If it recognizes the inspection was correct, it may have to recall thousands of cars to replace the battery pack not only in Germany but also in other countries where the Fremont-made Model 3 may have been sold. We’ll keep an eye on similar cases and also on this one: it promises to be relevant to more people than just to this Model 3 owner.