Noah Smith continues to peddle the completely false claim that China's electric car success is solely owed to getting the technology from Tesla.
@ChinaCounter Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article
@ChinaCounter literally not what the article says at all
@ChinaCounter Based on the usage of the word 'solely', I assume you're agreeing that China did get/copy the technology from Tesla?
@ChinaCounter single casting is very much a tesla idea. made by a italian cast maker (owned by a chinese company). xiaomi car uses this casting now also. and around tesla a group of suppliers sprung up. which new china car companies benefit from. so indirect yes sure tesla was catalyst.
@ChinaCounter The truth is Tesla uses BYD’s battery because Tesla’s battery is not safe and rejected by Europe! What is an EV without battery? Only software and shell! What’s the future of an EV that can’t produce its own battery? Zero! This is the truth!
@ChinaCounter when Tesla was in US, none of their big Auto makers GM Ford was able to compete against it. Tesla went to China, BYD XiaoMi went to compete.
@ChinaCounter Honest to God if Mr Musk was Chinese would Noah express the same narrative? 🤔
@ChinaCounter Tesla is a brilliant company but other brilliant companies also exist and they also enjoy success. And many of them are in China, which pisses a lot of Westerners off, so they write articles to cope.
@ChinaCounter How many new models came out from Tesla in the last 2 years? How many new models came out from BYD and others? There is no comparison in innovations.
@ChinaCounter Just look at the huge number of patents that BYD filed .... 12k domestic patents and 8k international patents. BYD aint copycat.