You're probably using Chinese products right now and have no idea. GE Appliances, the washers and refrigerators in tens of millions of American kitchens, was sold to Haier in 2016 for 5.6 billion dollars. Under the deal, Haier can use the GE brand name until 2056. That means for thirty more years, you can buy a GE-branded appliance, feel like you're supporting a domestic legacy brand, and be operating a Chinese product. The Lenovo ThinkPad? That's been Chinese since 2005, when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. Lenovo now outsells HP and Dell. Volvo is Chinese-owned. Geely bought it from Ford in 2010. Polestar is Chinese, also owned by Geely. BYD Electronics is the original equipment manufacturer for Apple's iPad, meaning the company competing with Tesla also assembles tablets for Apple. Even Tesla runs increasingly on CATL or BYD battery cells. CATL holds 38 percent of the global EV battery market. BYD holds another 17 percent. Together with other Chinese suppliers, China controls 69 percent. Every premium German sedan advertising German engineering runs on a Chinese battery. The geography of the average American driveway has been Chinese for years. The brands just haven't let you notice.
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But I was told that China copies the US.
25 years behind? Duh!
The future is now old me. Smart CEO just don’t agree with him not wanting to bring them to the us considering we live in free capitalism
Even Reagan knew that tariffs would make American companies weak and less competitive.
If Ford is smart, they would use that electric car to reverse engineer it and use the reverse engineered electric car for all future Ford vehicles.
I’ll be impressed when they give us actual keys back.
They did the exact same thing with Japanese cars in the 1980s, now it’s Chinese electric cars..
China is all in on EV bc they only produce 5 million barrels a day but consume 16mbpd.
And the Toyota Camry and Corolla still claps them both 🫰🏼
Chinese have to thank Musk/Tesla's generosity for setting up shops in China and shared desperately needed technologies to Chinese companies. They learned and copied everything in no time, and their EV sales surpassed Tesla in 2025. Some might see this as a "lure, trap, squeeze, kill" games that plays over and over in the rise of Chinese supremacy. But Musk, obviously enjoyed the game so much that, at one point he spoke on behalf of CCP and publicly "advised" Taiwan to just surrender to China.
Noooo but China is copying from the US😂
Props for him to admit it
The US has had technology for electric vehicles for decades (see the Simpsons joke about the Stonecutters (masons) holding back the electric car). My grandfather built one out of a jalopy back in the 1980s as a backyard project. We just made corporate and political decisions to not move in this direction.
USA need to if not fully but slightly open it's market for Chinese EVs, so that they can get the real vibe of competitiveness in the world of innovation & scaling. I hope they'll do it for better.
why can't America compete?
Wonder when we will get Ford vs Xiaomi, a sequel to Ford vs Ferrari lmao.
That’s what happens when you prioritize short term shareholder profits over lasting quality and brand reputation. It’s always about making a fast buck and passing the problem off to the next guy. All of this could have been avoided had the American auto makers stuck to the basics of manufacturing and made quality affordable vehicles. Now granted China plays by a completely different rule book with manufacturing and government policies than the United States. China vehicles are bad news for many automakers
I support organized labor in general, but the auto industry has a big problem: unions don’t like EVs because they are much simpler to build with far fewer parts (like transmissions). This means a real shift to compete head to head with the BYDs and Xiaomis of the world would require closing obsolete factories and laying off lots of workers who will not be rehired. Obviously the unions are not in favor of this so the US is kind of stuck.
This is what hyper-protectionist trade shit gets you, happened to Argentina in the 1940-1970s and it seems the US didn't learn