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BYD electric SUV teardown shocks Japan: 'How can it be produced at such a low cost?' (electrek.co)
submitted 2 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/electricvehicles
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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Government subsidies in order to destroy foreign markets and nurture dependence followed by dominance

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Seems a likely contributing factor. Economies of scale, cheaper labour, and vertical integration probably also play a part. I wonder how long the government subsidies will last?

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

And slave labor.

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Why do they continue to subsidize and reduce the cost of solar PV after they have already completely destroyed any foreign competition and are the only game in town?

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, enshittification.

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Oh, whoops. I figured making a product artificially cheaper to encourage adoption and undercut competition, so much so that the competition became obsolete and customers were entrenched in your product were the first steps of "enshittification".

Thanks for your well reasoned rebuttal to my poorly thought comment. I appreciate your enlightened response.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're thinking of "embrace, expand, extinguish" - the playbook for enshitification.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Did you read my post? Because I feel like that's what I said.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You said the wrong thing. Just take your L

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 weeks ago

I know what I said

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

If only you had spend half that energy googling the word...

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 2 weeks ago

from the article: mainly because BYD is the second largest battery producer in China, also because most of the car parts are produced by them

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Slaves. The answer is slaves.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

And corporate welfare. Can't forget that.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did we really need to invent a new acronym BEV? Is that the differentiate them from the MFEVs, the Mister Fusion EVs?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's mainly to differentiate them from plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).