Chinese companies are taking over the EV market. What’s behind their meteoric rise? : environment@aussie.zone

Chinese companies are taking over the EV market. What’s behind their meteoric rise? (theconversation.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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The interplay between climate goals and maintaining some sort of geopolitical agency is getting very complicated.

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[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

For anyone interested, last night's Foreign Correspondent on the ABC was on China's EV revolution

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-21/china-s-ev-revolution/106940630

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[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone [S] 2 points 3 months ago

I'll have to have watch. Thanks! :)

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[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Exploiting minorities for cheap labour to cut costs and sell at lower price than the "competition".

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[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Most of their vehicles are manufactured by robots these days.

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[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Heavy government subsidies to prop them up domestically and internationally until they could compete.

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[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone 1 point 3 months ago

And their government has money for this because they subside things like that.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 point 3 months ago

Detroit would never!

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[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone -5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

No standard will save us from China turning every car they made to killing machine when time is right.

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[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone [S] 3 points 3 months ago

I mean, I feel like this statement is a bit Transformers-like, but I think the sentiment is in the fair place.

Get 50% (compelling number pulled from my arse), of a nation's automotive stock under your control and simply bricking them would turn them into killing machines though suddenly stalling that nation's ability to function.

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