Taking over a bigger European brand would be the next logical step in expanding sales worldwide.
New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China
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Taking over a bigger European brand would be the next logical step in expanding sales worldwide.
That’s because 99% of Toyota hybrids are old gen hybrids, not Plug in.
Toyota has a cult like status. I think they can keep this up for at least 1-2 years before their brand name disappears if they don't come up with competitive EVs
Honda and especially Nissan are now already on the verge of dying like GM
Z9GT locked in 5000 orders in first 36 hours and Z9 sedan version to be launched in November
First BYD ordered PCTC from GSI shipyard has now been launched
Zeekr 7X has locked in 6000 orders in 24 hours
First BYD ordered PCTC from GSI shipyard has now been launched
Zeekr 7X has locked in 6000 orders in 24 hours
BYD battery CTO gave a presentation on the future of BYD's battery efforts. A lot of really interesting directions over the next few years.
I don't know if BYD does its own brakes for every model, but it definitely develops brakes like this high end carbon ceramic fiber brake for U9.
Ok, thanks.
I just got a hint from german industry, the current VW and BMW insecurities also translates to OEM supply chains.
Bosch and ZF want to hire lots of chinese mandarin speaking engineers which they want to sent over to China to "learn" and forge cooperations with Chinese Automobile companies.
Timeframe 2025-2026 to make a shift similiar to BASF, away from germany and internationalize, South Africa, LatAm and China were mentioned.
All anecdotal as of now, maybe in coming month I can offer more solid plans.
yeah, they pretty much has to do this, because there just isn't enough software talent in Germany. It's pretty well know that Bosch is busy working with Chinese supply chain to get into EV and AV world.
I've talked about tier 1 supplier issue for a while now. If you look at the tier 1 customers to Horizon, a whole bunch of European suppliers there. They can't move forward without Chinese help here.
That is pretty much bogus. Germany has a pretty decent software industry. The problem is, you cannot expect to beat people who have been working for 5 years or more in their software product in a highly competitive environment with a new product made in a year or two. Quite often software is about accumulation and in this case of advanced vehicle software it is especially so. You need to have a whole stack from the operating system to the graphical user interface level.
This is another of Europe's huge fails. Instead of dumping huge amounts of money into building chip fabs the European Commission should have funded EV development instead. Including designing self-driving chips. They are just dumb.