May Likes TorontoThis is what tech is supposed to be. Innovation based on today's human knowledge to improve lives and prevent deaths. Not whatever this bullshit is that we're dealing with every day.
I don't love the idea of private vehicles, or vertically integrated companies like this. This article is definitely marketing, but if you spent 8 years investing in research to make lithium ion batteries safe, I think you deserve the marketing.
Chris Adams@mayintoronto I think it’s useful solely as a calibration exercise: what could the billions of dollars Silicon Valley has spent maximizing ad impressions have done if directed to something useful? Tesla got subsidized comparably to BYD, what could they have done if they had a full-time CEO?
urien2@mayintoronto totally agree. Also, at least Wang Chuanfu is an engineer, so he at least knows what he is talking about. I don't want to talk too good of him because he's a rich CEO, but at least in that aspect I think he's pretty cool
Charles A-M@mayintoronto yeah, the sentiment of the opening anecdote gives hope, but he's also a CEO of a giant corp which usually means skeletons in the closet.
I'm not inclined to dig further, but if I were, I'd start at "he was his destitute family's only hope" being closely followed by "he borrowed startup capital from his cousin."
@Centretowner I noticed that one too. "A small loan of $10M" energy.
JP@mayintoronto outlets like FC will occasionally do these kinds of glowing "gotta hand it to em" pieces on chinese entrepreneurs but they never seem to mention that if any of these guys did even a fraction of the shit elon musk has done they'd be in prison for life
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥What a story, terrific 😊