New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China

Overbom said:

I would rather trust Reuters more than Elon. Elon is a well known liar. Do you remember the "Full self driving by X year" meme?

In any case, its Reuters's 3 Tesla sources and who knows how many internal company emails Vs a well known liar responding with a vague "lies" statement

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Tesla puts ‘$25,000 electric car’ codenamed NV9 on back burner despite what Elon Musk said​

Electrek can confirm that Tesla indeed put its upcoming ‘$25,000 electric car, sometimes referred to as ‘Model 2’, on the back burner despite what Elon Musk said.

The project was codenamed NV9.

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It’s likely that Musk’s blanket denial of the report is due to Reuters claiming that the vehicle was “scrapped” and “canceled”.
Electrek can confirm that the program, which was internally called ‘NV9’, was postponed, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Musk might take issues with claiming that it is “canceled”, but the project is effectively scratched right now as Tesla is putting all resources into its self-driving effort.

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According to sources familiar with the matter, Musk told Tesla’s team in Austin in December 2023 that NV9, an expansion of Gigafactory Texas for the new cheaper next-gen model, was a priority for 2024.

However, the project was recently completely defunded, and many people involved in it were laid off as part of the round of layoffs announced today.

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Instead, Musk said that he wanted Tesla to focus on the south expansion of Gigafactory Texas, which is going to house a giant data center for the Robotaxi project.

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According to people familiar with the project, it is already behind schedule, and there’s serious doubt that it can be completed by the end of August, which is the timeline Musk has been pushing for.

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Electrek’s Take​

I have been saying it for a while now. Elon, mister truth seeker, is not above stretching the truth and being misleading. This is a great example.

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While we can argue all day about the words scrapped, canceled, postponed, or put on the back-burner, there was certainly more truth than falsehood in that original report.

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Effectively, Tesla is not working on this NV9 project anymore, and it is focusing on Robotaxi instead. That’s the truth, which you wouldn’t know if you just read Elon’s denial of the report and moved on. That seems to be Elon’s goal lately, with his constant attacks on the media.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a visit to China on Monday said Chinese cars would be welcome on the market in Germany but warned against the use of unfair trade practices.

While Germany's economy has benefited from Chinese demand for products like cars to chemicals, ties have been strained with German companies arguing they face unjust market barriers in China.

Only thing that ought to be clear is 'fair competition,' Scholz says
Scholz, who is in China on a three-day visit with several leading German executives, made the remarks while speaking at Tongji University in Shanghai.

He noted that, when Japanese and South Korean cars were launched onto the market in Europe, there had been fears that they would completely conquer the market in a one-way shift toward Asia.

"Nonsense!" said the chancellor. "There are Japanese cars now in Germany and German cars in Japan," he said. "And the same applies to China and Germany."

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supercat said:

A flurry of news about Chery: Chery bought Nissan's former plant in Spain and will make cars there. Land Rover will use Chery's EV platform. In addition, two more European automakers may have tie-ups with Chery.

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