Wursi@lemmy.world to Videos@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoIn 2011, Elon Musk was asked about chinese company BYD. He started laughing. In 2025, BYD sold more electric cars worldwide than Teslacdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1443arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1433arrow-down1videoIn 2011, Elon Musk was asked about chinese company BYD. He started laughing. In 2025, BYD sold more electric cars worldwide than Teslacdn.imgchest.comWursi@lemmy.world to Videos@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square78fedilinkfile-text
You can’t make this up. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9rjwpvmpzo https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/chinas-byd-to-overtake-tesla-as-worlds-top-ev-seller-for-first-time.html
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·2 months agoI would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoJust because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn’t mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.
minus-squareFlyingCircus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoAn acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them. And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoIt’s pretty bad everywhere but people don’t realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.
I would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
Just because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn’t mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.
An acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them.
And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.
It’s pretty bad everywhere but people don’t realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.