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Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops (www.carscoops.com)
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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.

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Until someone can do it cheaper and then they take over. This has already happened many, many times as chinese quality increased and wages and thus prices increased.

Unless some other nation finds a stockpile of rare earth minerals, slave labor, and bottomless government subsidies, I don't see this happening with EVs. Currently nobody else on the planet is able to sell them anywhere near the price China is and that's not because of simple cost cutting and business efficiency.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Lithium prices are down 80% since 2022 and new mining investments for it have dried up.

EVs are absolutely "advanced manufacturing" though. You don't just stand up a battery plant in a country, let alone an automotive manufacturing industry when said country doesn't even make cars today. You could obviously do it, but the costs are outrageous.