ICE won't be left out. Commercial vehicles will still need ICE and rural vehicles will likely be plug in hybrids for the combination of 0 emissions city driving and long range with gas. BYD itself is still heavily invested in combustion engines.
New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China
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Also cold weather regions.
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I think once Sodium ion batteries are introduced on a large scale it'll be less of a problem as the discharge capacity in cold weather is better than Lithium ion.
what do you mean? CATL wants to be part of this JV so its competitors don't get a large order and compete against it? Do you want Japanese and Korean battery makers to take all of the US market?
Need to ensure that Chinese battery technology is not used for human rights abuses of marginalized minority groups by state security forces.
It is very difficult to safeguard your trade secrets with such arrangement. Basically, CATL is giving Ford unfettered access to its battery technology. The only benefit is denying your competitors from obtaining more marketshare from you. As the leading batteries maker in the world, CATL needs to think in the long term.
The Qin plus launched this time should be seen in the context of the Chinese auto market. Qin plus’s opponents are the Japanese Big Three and Volkswagen’s 100,000 to 150,000 cars. The market that eats up a lot of oil trucks!
if CATL cannot stay ahead of Ford in battery technology, it doesn't deserve to stick around.