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For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery. The connection between driver, machine, and road defined what it meant to own and love a car. But in today’s digital era, a different trend is unfolding. Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 29 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

Yes it’s why China was able to leapfrog and become a EV manufacturing giant. They were never able to compete in the traditional ICE vehicle market with the Europeans, Japanese and Americans. Since building an internal combustion engine that complies with the regulation, is fuel efficient and fast is really difficult for them since they lack the century of experience that the other manufacturers have. An electric engine is much less complex and since China has decades of experience building batteries, electronics and software, because they make the smartphones for almost every smartphone brand in the world, they were able to set up shop and catch up to foreign competitors very quickly in the EV market.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think that's the reason. China makes tons of aftermarket replacement parts and even OEM parts.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Aftermarket.

There’s no Chinese translation for copyright infringement.

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 hours ago
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