Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸1d ago

“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”

Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.

This is the future.

China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#climateEmergency #climatechange #byd #china #canada #canpoli

The Nail Test: Why this $54 billion innovation is terrifying Western auto executives

The practice of reproducing failure on purpose until the physics revealed itself became the bedrock of BYD’s entire operation.

Fast Company
Show threadBob16h ago
@chris wouldnt work. The entire point of the tariffs is to courage them to make the batteries here. Why would they build them here if it can be built in china and transported here?
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@idiot300 same reason Japanese makers build cars in North America. Once the supply chains are in place, it's cheaper to manufacture closer to the end point of sale.
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