cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51970309
Rivian’s CEO praised the Xiaomi EV’s design after a teardown.
RJ Scaringe said he’d buy the SU7 himself if he lived in China.
He called it a well-integrated, nicely executed technology platform.
There is zero substance in that article so I will save you a click
The real explanation, he said, is simple: China’s extensive government support.
Ah, I thought it was indentured servitude, but then that’s why we have prisons.
Why did they need to tear it apart to discover the advantage was government funding? It this just a click bait headline?
They wanted to see if there were any cut corners that could help explain the low cost other than government funding and the general low cost of labour in China. Did not find any cut corners during their teardown and sang the cars praises.
This is probably some agreement witn the Chinese government to give good press in other parts of the world in order to get benefits on vehicles sold in China. Ford’s CEO put out a nearly identical article a few months ago.
There actually is a myth in circulation in some places that China’s electrical vehicle tech is somehow advanced over everyone else’s (my father got sucked in by that one). Tearing one apart is one way to counter that.
Lots of negative comments here, I’m guessing from people who have been propagandized to the point that they can’t believe China could do something better than everyone else without cheating. There could be a little bit of racism baked into it as well.
It’s time to realize that the country that manufactures almost everything has gotten very good at manufacturing (and design)!
I’m anti-authoritarian, but you’ve got to give merit where it’s due.
Not only they have normal healthcare, but also beating capitalist in its game.
I wonder how true china is gonna be to Marxism - do they want socialism on the entire planet and only keeping the cards tight for now?
China will never become socialist. They’re loving the authoritarian state capitalism’s benefits to their elites too much.
He called it a well-integrated, nicely executed technology platform.
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miss me with this garbage.Why? What’s garbage about it? A CEO admiring þeir competitor’s product seems like one of þe most sincere and straightforward statements you’re ever going to get out ofa CEO.
Not the person you’re replying to, but “technology platform” as a way of referring to a car grosses me out, personally.
Its a car. It should take me places. The technology in it, should be technology that takes me places safely, and that’s it. Calling it a technology platform frames it like a car is a consumer electronics device, and consumer electronics are generally user hostile feature bloated unrepairable nightmares 😅
Still sounds like a pretty well made car though. I’m not surprised china has very capable manufacturers.
I value privacy and believe cars shouldnt be iPhones on wheels.
