Elon Musk Expects Tesla’s Main Rival Will Be a Chinese EV Maker

[edyvw]

Communist Party of China. You would never call our country AUS - American United States. Names matter.

CCP is widely accepted.

 

[nthach]

That seems to be a very good way to start out.

Japan did that. That gave them a starting base and they took off from there.

The first Toyota engine that wasn’t a small one was a one-for-one copy of a Chevy I6. KYB started to make shocks for the locally-assembled Kaiser Jeep after the war. Subaru(then Fuji Heavy Industries after the war) built Bell choppers with an agreement from Textron. That relationship continues today: https://aerospace.subaru.co.jp/412epx/en/

 

[ecotourist]

The first Toyota engine that wasn’t a small one was a one-for-one copy of a Chevy I6. KYB started to make shocks for the locally-assembled Kaiser Jeep after the war. Subaru(then Fuji Heavy Industries after the war) built Bell choppers with an agreement from Textron. That relationship continues today: https://aerospace.subaru.co.jp/412epx/en/

And I understand they also made nearly identical copies of MG I4's. An article I read many years ago said that the heads looked the same but the bolt patterns were different.

I think the drill is you copy something that's pretty good, and improve on it as you learn, learn, learn. Before long your copies are better than the originals. And eventually you know enough to make a really good clean slate original.

 

[nthach]

Yes, if your from a wealthy CCP family with the right credentials you get to study abroad (and potentially steal secrets from the university for the CCP, but I digress). But its not like some smart kid from the rice paddy gets to go to Yale.

Almost 20 years ago, I went to a community college that was full of Asian(Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean) students who aimed to transfer to Cal/Stanford/UCLA. Their reasoning - pay the still affordable at the time “non-resident” tuition, build residency. Then they’ll have an easier time transferring into the upper-tier UCs or Stanford and pay the resident undergrad tuition rates.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Communist Party of China. You would never call our country AUS - American United States. Names matter.

I was referring the the communist government, not the people - or the PRC. And yes, I know what their government call themselves, but in western non sympathetic circles its CCP.

I call our government far worse than AUS. If I wrote it here I would overheat the profanity check algorithm.