• misk@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    China is the center of lithium ion battery tech nowadays. I’ve recently seen that they managed to bring down battery prices by 50% in the last two years and their EVs are cheaper than combustion based alternatives for 2/3 of models being sold.

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      4 months ago

      Economy of scale is different from groundbreaking novel developments in the field.

      China is also the runaway leader in false discoveries and purposeful fraud in academia.

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        4 months ago

        Agreed on all points but I have trouble believing that with this economy of scale there would be no money being pumped into R&D and in time some results of that.