China Puts New Restrictions on E.V. Battery Manufacturing Technology

Agreed, some of the more tech advance cities that I’ve been to in China runs on 90% electric vehicles bar a few diesel BMW’s and Mercs.

They are replacing their “cheap laborers” with scientists.

Raw materials are not secret technology. China is simply sitting on rare earth mines that run on human exploitation and environmental destruction like a hoarding dragon. China couldn‘t build an electric battery in line with Sweden‘s regulations with Swedish resources either.

Also the know-how to produce great batteries isn't everywhere. Northvolt in Sweden went bankrupt because they couldn't deliver what they promised — to produce batteries only from local materials. They couldn't make the batteries without importing some of the things necessary for production from Asia (can't remember what, exactly). They just never got out of the R&D phase and were always dependent on third parties to finish production batches.

OP is referring to resource extraction and refining, more than assembly lines.

BYD might be a bad example as they rely heavily on treating their supply chain debt as an equity (funky accounting)

They bought the robots from Germany, a champion of automated manufacturing. That‘s not the secret sauce here.

I’m going to guess you did not read the whole article and have not been to any big Chinese factories specifically the big boys like BYD.

Most of them heavily use robotics to automate.

Specifically for this article, human exploitations have nothing to do with the tech to increase charging and capacity, unless you’re living in the Matrix.

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Another reactionary, you’re just as bad as those Trump *removed* Jesus fucking Christ

Interestingly enough the restrictions used to go the other direction. Now China is the one with the tech Edge

The technology to make them this cheap are human exploitation and massive subsidies. It's nothing that others haven't figured out but most lack the resources or motivation to do that and that isn't a bad thing.