Xiaomi enter the EV Arena @ £24k
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Can't see another thread, not sure when it will officially hit our shores, the one and only question is can you root it?? 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68672192
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68672192
China got the leap on the west when it comes to making batteries both cheap and efficient. China also makes much of the world's tech, and EVs are mechanically so simple that the tech is the bigger component.
Apple got this. Announced a car project which appears to have died. Xiaomi - who make really decent kit btw if you've never had any of their stuff - are ready to launch.
Remember that for so many people a car is just transport. An car. They aren't bothered. This first car looks like a Porsche with McLaren lights and does 0-60 in silly, but I expect this is just to plant their flag. Expect them to start chruning out mass market an cars in large numbers for little cash, and for them to be better than much of the legacy manufacturer models.
Its easy for VW to whine. They cheated on diesel and have never recovered. Their EVs are poor because they are cheaply built and expensive to buy, with endless packaging compromises and crappy tech. Not everyone has the same problem - look at Stellantis. Not every manufacturer has the right to exist when the competition have them for lunch...
Apple got this. Announced a car project which appears to have died. Xiaomi - who make really decent kit btw if you've never had any of their stuff - are ready to launch.
Remember that for so many people a car is just transport. An car. They aren't bothered. This first car looks like a Porsche with McLaren lights and does 0-60 in silly, but I expect this is just to plant their flag. Expect them to start chruning out mass market an cars in large numbers for little cash, and for them to be better than much of the legacy manufacturer models.
Its easy for VW to whine. They cheated on diesel and have never recovered. Their EVs are poor because they are cheaply built and expensive to buy, with endless packaging compromises and crappy tech. Not everyone has the same problem - look at Stellantis. Not every manufacturer has the right to exist when the competition have them for lunch...
andburg said:
As many are finding out, buying a cheap EV is one thing but waiting for parts when something simple fails can be a real problem.
They’re churning the cars out at such a rate there is no capacity to make spares.
At the rate they're churning them out a replacement car is your spare parts They’re churning the cars out at such a rate there is no capacity to make spares.
But seriously BAIC are a massive company I don't see why they wouldn't have supply chain issues with manufacturing spares (given that there's no ICE engine components needing spare parts for)
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