Well here I am currently watching the 2023 Guangzhou Autoshow on youtube and I am amazed at the quality of the evs at the show. I am also in awe how fast China is electrifying their auto fleet.
BYD surpassed Ford in total sales earlier this year and they only sold 500,000 car in 2019. BYD also said this: demolish the old legends
BYD, Xpeng, Nio, MG, Geely, GAC are all expanding rapidly into South America, Europe and South East Asia.
These companies are topping the sales charts in the South East Asian markets.
Kia Australia boss says Chinese car brands will be in top five shortly.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/chinese-car-brands-top-five-within-three-years/
I’m kind of concerned for our current auto brands dragging their feet.
Doesn’t BYD make underwear?
Xpeng’s a digital design studio, right?
Nio’s that stuff you add to water to make it taste like cherries, right?
MG made cars my grandfather wanted… in 1955.
Geely’s a character in the new Disney movie, yeah?
GAC is the sound of retching, or a toy marketed to kids in the early ‘90s.
How long did it take for Hyundai and Kia to achieve anything worthwhile in the States? 30 years?
How’s Chinese phone market penetration doing?
Do any of these brands use tech by Huawei or ZTE?
Is China even going to allow integration of RoW tech with Chinese cars?
If our cars already read our texts and know our contacts, do Americans really want that information going to the Chinese government?
How can an industry already hurting for good technicians train and provide experience to technicians in the next seven years?
How can an industry already hurting in terms of supply chain logistics absorb several new brands?