schizoidman

If Nio can successfully persuade other manufacturers to adopt their battery swap standard, I can see battery swapping becoming mainstream. With the ability to easily replace a worn out or obsolete battery, depreciation becomes much less of an issue.

Its safe to assume sixt will probably use BYD cars outside of the US. Not sure why Americans think everything revolves around them.

If I am not mistaken this is the 'pebble bed' reactor. Nice to see it finally make it out of testing phase.

That sounds like an oversimplification of why certain car manufacturers are successful. There are many state supported car makes from the likes of Proton (Malaysia) Maruti (India) Holden (Australia) that are not very successfull outside of their home market.

Seems federation is broken atm.

Because it's a cheap car that starts from $18,700 in China. Considering BYD as far as I know is the only EV manufacturer other than Tesla making a profit, its not surprising the material cost is probably very low.

Also most cheap cars come with hard scratchy plastic for its interior trim for a reason.

Personally I put reliability into 2 categories.

First is the powertrain i.e gearbox, engine which toyota is famously good at. Only requiring routine servicing and not developing unexpected issues.

The second is other miscellaneous stuff that does not prevent the car from not being able to drive you from place to place safely.

I suppose most electric cars do the first part well as there is no engine or gearbox to fail.

Usually the more complex the electronics and interior trim pieces are the more there is to go wrong. Eventually the sunroof will leak, power window switches will fail, tpms will need new batteries etc. More specifically for the atto3 I wonder how the guitar door string and rotating screen will hold up.

Toyota is not exactly immune from quality issues. I have encounted less than a year old toyotas that power steering or automatic parking brake has failed.

Personally I think all car manufacturers should do the tesla method of directly selling and servicing the car. That should prevent any issues with crappy dealerships.

What car do you own and what quality issues do you have with it?

Yes. It's already selected.

Edit.

I Found out that it's due to those users being banned from Lemmy.ml

Zeekr , Volvo & Polestar are all subsidies of Geely. Many of their cars share the same platform. For example the Volvo em90 is a badge-engineered ZEEKR 009.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/auto/electric-cars/volvo-em90-electric-minivan-teased-rebadged-zeekr-009-luxury-mpv-from-china/articleshow/104551402.cms

I just want to have higher information density in google maps. Having to constantly zoom in to see buildings is a pain.

Depends on where you're from and how competitive the EV market is.

In Europe you can get a citroen e-C3 for $24,500

In china you can get a EV for under $5000