Foxconn unveils three EVs

[y_p_w]

Interesting how they plan on doing it. Initially as a few models with the joint "Foxtron" name with their partner. They may be planning on selling to other companies (i.e. Apple) to rebadge their vehicles.

https://www.reuters.com/business/au...three-electric-vehicle-prototypes-2021-10-18/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rtner-foxconn-unveils-first-electric-vehicles

 

[JeffKeryk]

Foxconn is the huge, powerful, incredible Taiwanese manufacturer.
EVs are coming, like it or not. Change is coming; change is inevitable.

It seems as though some are willing to cede this incredible oppoutunity to another country.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

Interesting how they plan on doing it. Initially as a few models with the joint "Foxtron" name with their partner. They may be planning on selling to other companies (i.e. Apple) to rebadge their vehicles.

https://www.reuters.com/business/au...three-electric-vehicle-prototypes-2021-10-18/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rtner-foxconn-unveils-first-electric-vehicles

Any idea who the designer is? A few years ago Chris Bangle was working on something with a large tech company.

 

[Jake_J]

They're just prototypes, making fancy prototypes that promise all kinds of features, tech, and great performance is easy. Actually manufacturing them to pass safety standards and a barge of rules that govern what's required of a new car to hit the streets and doing it to a certain price is the hard part. Not to mention the retail portion of the business. Let them figure out the hard parts and then I'll be impressed.

 

[y_p_w]

Any idea who the designer is? A few years ago Chris Bangle was working on something with a large tech company.

Their partner is a Taiwanese car company. But they did go to Pininfarina for their sedan design.

 

[nthach]

Taiwan does make cars as well - Ford has been building there for the Asian market, and aftermarket suspension/body/lighting comes from there as well. Foxconn would more than likely build this in China though. The electronics/batteries/propulsion would be easily built in the Shenzhen/Guangzhou/Suzhou areas where Foxconn has plants. And assembled outside of Beijing where the Chinese auto industry have a presence for the rest of the car.

 

[alarmguy]

I said this a long time ago and many times in this forum.
The entry level into building EVs is much lower without the ICE.
EVs will be designed and built just like remote control battery toy cars and trucks are built. Subcontracted.
Who knows, maybe a dime a dozen much like TVs and any electronic. This might put the legacy automakers in a good spot if they dont abandon the ICE, there will always be a market for them for at least a few decades.

Meanwhile EV only companies will be dealing with over supply, cut throat competition no different than ANY electronics in consumers homes right now. Customers loyalty will be as they are for any electronics = zero
It will be an interesting decade for sure and the day of, its just another car will sadly most likely be the same as its just another big screen TV.
Im not saying this will happen tomorrow but I am saying in the coming 10 years we will have a pretty good idea what will be.

Technology has made producing the "look" of the car simple as heck, take a photo of your competitions best selling cars, load it into your system, tweak the look, alter it how you want it produced and your done.
Using the Tesla name is typical CNBC clickbait. Makes you read it only to find out, that is a hope for Foxconn and a slant by the writer to make his article more attractive but the day of subcontracting EV vehicles will be here, just like TVs and just like the articles posted above by others.
It will be great for the consumer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/19/apple-iphone-maker-foxconn-says-it-wants-to-make-cars-for-tesla.html

 

[alarmguy]

It seems as though some are willing to cede this incredible oppoutunity to another country.

There is no choice, Chinese and overseas labor and development is dirt cheap.
Even Tesla had zero taxable income in the USA operations last year. All their profit was from overseas.
Not sure what else your statement means unless I am misunderstanding something, which is quite possible!

BTW I stated the first two lines of your post a long time ago with similar meaning, its just this one line I dont agree with. No one is ceding anything, its just what is in the corporate world. Its the consumer that drives this, $/price rules.

BTW - I dont see GM ceding anything to anyone. JUST like always they are fighting for their lives, have for a long time and people in here always knocking everything they do.
This is exactly what I always post, the typical consumer could care less about that and where a product comes from and who produces it. Price, convenance, looks rule.
Some need to look in the mirror and see if it correlates with your statement. It certainly doesnt for those who show some respect for the legacy producers such as GM and other big names.