Any comment on this ??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCd0wDwqdNU Two comments: 1. I don’t click random links. 2. It should be very easy to simply state, “the following companies are bankrupt: X, Y, Z.” If in fact, any are. Having said that, it is true that some companies have been in bankruptcy ...
Jump to postJust out of curiosity, what do the last dozen or more posts have to do with bankruptcies in the automotive industry? Of which, so far as I know, there are none. Any comment on this ??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCd0wDwqdNU Two comments: 1. I don’t click random links. 2. It should be very easy...
Jump to postIn 1945, the UK had a new Prime Minister who had believed in Indian independence for 20 years, Mountbatten had an impossible task, given the instransigence of the two major players on the Indian side. You wanted independence, talks were even going on during the war despite everything, much to Churc...
Jump to postSpirituality has been something that India got blessed with, a long time ago. And any PM or a constitutional head would want to talk from a point of strength. There is a reason that Buddhism spread in India and Asia and not so much in the west. You write that as if Buddhism is on the rise and that ...
Jump to postGigapress is nothing but a fancy name for making bigger pieces, which btw were developed by an Italian company (Idra) which was bought by LK a few years ago. Idra's biggest customers are still the big auto manufacturers, though they buy smaller machines. As with everything, there are compromises. I...
Jump to postBut Toyota said it would be doing them, the fanboys said it all the time. So it was a dishonest statement. At the same time, they have produced commercials against EVs https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/toyota-bet-against-against-electric-cars-now-its-stacking-the-deck-against-them/ar-AAMQ...
Jump to postBut Toyota said it would be doing them, the fanboys said it all the time. So it was a dishonest statement. At the same time, they have produced commercials against EVs https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/toyota-bet-against-against-electric-cars-now-its-stacking-the-deck-against-them/ar-AAMQ...
Jump to postIt is only the Chinese who are actually following what Tesla is doing. See for e.g. Gigapress. apart from Tesla 7 Chinese companies are using Gigapress. There is a Chinese company called LK Technology which has developed the 'Gigapress method' similar to the European company. So more Chinese auto c...
Jump to postYup totally agree, Even farming is going down, The 90's were the best time for Punjab unfortunately. Terrorism was quite bad in the 1970s (my family is from Amritsar which was the hot spot for all of it). In terms of partition, our entire ethnic group and homeland were split up into 2 (and then lat...
Jump to postIt is only the Chinese who are actually following what Tesla is doing. See for e.g. Gigapress. apart from Tesla 7 Chinese companies are using Gigapress. There is a Chinese company called LK Technology which has developed the 'Gigapress method' similar to the European company. So more Chinese auto co...
Jump to postInteresting discussion here. All are very good points. The violence that lasted for decades was certainly very shameful. I would hope contemporary Indian government officials can put this in the past :( The bureaucracy's job is to make a legal cover for any policy decision taken by the executive. T...
Jump to postIn 1945, the UK had a new Prime Minister who had believed in Indian independence for 20 years, Mountbatten had an impossible task, given the instransigence of the two major players on the Indian side. You wanted independence, talks were even going on during the war despite everything, much to Churc...
Jump to postYup totally agree, Even farming is going down, The 90's were the best time for Punjab unfortunately. Terrorism was quite bad in the 1970s (my family is from Amritsar which was the hot spot for all of it). In terms of partition, our entire ethnic group and homeland were split up into 2 (and then lat...
Jump to postAgreed. I'm from Punjab so the situation here is a little different but still shocking. The religious divide is especially stupid here because historically Punjabi Hindus are more Sikh than Hindu (compared to the rest of India). It's so sad to see politicians stoking the flames of violence for no g...
Jump to postThis is what is happening in Australia -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2fuEITVZA
India has so many problems. I thought the smile part was some sort of weird sarcastic remark, but wow it's literal! My home state in India has a lot of religious tensions now as well. Very concerning to see. Sadly it is, record number of lynchings and whatnot are happening but the records are easil...
Jump to postToyota (A Japanese car manufacturer) has asked BYD (A Chinese car manufacturer) to manufacture EVs for them. And this is a threat to the big boys how? For being such a prolific poster on the subject you don’t seem to understand the industry very well. Companies contract with third-parties all the t...
Jump to postWith rising inflation and sky rocketing fuel prices the average US citizen will not support a large war to protect an island that most of them couldn't find on a map. Do not underestimate the ability for the average American to withstand hardship if they believe the cause is just. It would be inter...
Jump to postIndia has so many problems. I thought the smile part was some sort of weird sarcastic remark, but wow it's literal! My home state in India has a lot of religious tensions now as well. Very concerning to see. Sadly it is, record number of lynchings and whatnot are happening but the records are easil...
Jump to postShell has been investing in "green" energy for well over 20 years now. And you've posted that same link several times now over several different threads :sarcastic: Yes, I have. I find it appalling that a company lies constantly when it knows better but you seem to be ok with it. Perhaps ...
Jump to postThe only one I know is Tesla which has been doing that, sharing patents apart from that don't know of another single player that has done it. I would love to be corrected on that. https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you This idea that the big boys have nothing to worry about is what...
Jump to postOkay I misunderstood the point you were making. I thought you were trying to say no one had put a mass-market EV out before Tesla. I'm not sure that the EV tech of the early 20th century had any chance to do what ICE has done however, the tech was just not there for batteries. The tech for batterie...
Jump to postCompanies like Shell, Exxon, etc are energy companies - they have had a diverse energy platform for quite some time. They actually pivoted. Shell and Exxon were first pure gas guys who were against clean energy - This shell report tells that - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4411090-Documen...
Jump to postNow lastly, as far as their 'marketing' is concerned. GM actually wants to follow the Tesla way. The GM dealers as well as some of the other legacy auto manufacturers were trying to sell machines 10-20k USD above the MSRP while with Tesla, there is nothing like that. GM wants to do it that way, Thei...
Jump to postIn fact, if one wants to go even further back then Thomas Edison and Henry Ford had made plans to make an electric car but twice mysteriously his lab got burnt down. And that was the electric car premature death in the 1920s otherwise the history of transportation would have been something else alto...
Jump to postThe above words are spoken by none other than Delhi HC (Delhi High Court). This was as a minister said 'goli maro saalo ko' kill those bastards (crude translation) https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/hate-speech-case-if-said-with-smile-no-criminality-says-hc-7836774/ And yes, that resulte...
Jump to postThere was a thread where I had shared what Mr. Munro had talked about, bankruptcies by legacy auto. Most are unwilling to believe it even though their debts and other things tell the story by themselves - https://ibb.co/j3mjVJB Now people by themselves can judge where legacy auto will stand in a few...
Jump to postWhat do you mean by VW not having much in way of EV’s? Compared to other European brands (and Ford and GM) they are well ahead of everyone else. Mercedes is the clear leader: EQA, EQB, EQC, EQE, EQS and EQV. VW boasts UP, ID3, ID4 and ID5. That’s one more than Audi, and the same as BMW (iX, i3, i4 ...
Jump to postSomebody asked from the Indian perspective. It is complex why India chose to side with the Russians. So let me give some of the reasons they chose as an Indian. 1. Historically, Russia has helped India a number of times. 2. In the 2014 elections that were held in India, there is a suspicion that Ru...
Jump to postWas reading an excerpt of this today, seems the fossil fuel car manufacturing industry can't pay its workers enough - https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2022/03/15/michigan-auto-industry-hiring-labor-shortage/9417596002/ Meanwhile, the Chinese EVs are about to hit the U.S. Australia, and other ...
Jump to postAnd then there is also starbucks which wants to enter the same domain -
https://www.fastcompany.com/90730929/st ... re-for-evs
Just saw this - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/byd-says-partners-up-with-shell-ventures-china-europe-2022-03-24/ And shell has been playing this game quietly for quite sometime now - https://thedriven.io/2021/12/21/future-of-petrol-stations-shell-opens-first-ev-charging-hub-fu...
Jump to postI don’t need to do any R&D. The simple fact is none of the auto companies of the U.S. are bankrupt. True, some have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past but they emerged from that some time ago. Of course, you and your YouTube buddy are free to believe what you want to. My dear friend, i...
Jump to posthttps://carnewschina.com/2022/03/14/ora-punk-cat-chinese-ev-is-a-volkswagens-nightmare/ https://carnewschina.com/2022/01/12/ora-ballet-cat-is-cooler-than-the-volkswagen-beetle-ever-was-and-more-practical-and-electric-and-faster/ https://jalopnik.com/that-chinese-electric-classic-vw-beetle-knockoff-...
Jump to postWould you mind providing sources citing the court filings to back up that claim? I actually gave you better than that, did you see the video or see the Altman-z score. Where are they making money, only in China, elsewhere they are in a loss. And those numbers and everything that Sandy pulled out wa...
Jump to post112 Gripes About the French It is a handbook written by the United States military and given to enlisted personnel arriving in France after the Liberation. At the end of the Wikipedia page their is a link to pdf (scan of the handbook), it is worth a read (69 small pages) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
Jump to postI don't have access to this Reuters article but the title seems a bit misleading given that Germany has announced today that they would end importing Russian coal by fall. Should we understand that Germany has objected to an immediate ban of Russian coal? For the record: https://www.euronews.com/20...
Jump to postEven in World War 2, many of the north-Indian businessmen sided with the fascists and made billions of rupees. Just like the Vietminh sided with the Russian to gain independence from the French. The history of SE Asia would be much different if the US see the Vietminh as nationalist as opposed to C...
Jump to postNot only is India on the wrong side, but they are also on the weak side, as Russia's shortcomings have been exposed. While I agree it's a miscalculation on the part of the Indians, I can see the internal logic and the bet that any secondary sanctions on Indian concerns will be window dressing. What...
Jump to postSomebody asked from the Indian perspective. It is complex why India chose to side with the Russians. So let me give some of the reasons they chose as an Indian. 1. Historically, Russia has helped India a number of times. 2. In the 2014 elections that were held in India, there is a suspicion that Ru...
Jump to postSomebody asked from the Indian perspective. It is complex why India chose to side with the Russians. So let me give some of the reasons they chose as an Indian. 1. Historically, Russia has helped India a number of times. 2. In the 2014 elections that were held in India, there is a suspicion that Ru...
Jump to postThe US, Australia and Canada will not allow Chinese EV's to have anything more than a tiny fraction of such a strategic industry. If that weren't so, they would already have a significant percentage of the market. Plus tariffs would be 30% or more (as on Chinese solar panels) More and more, China i...
Jump to postSomebody asked from the Indian perspective. It is complex why India chose to side with the Russians. So let me give some of the reasons they chose as an Indian. 1. Historically, Russia has helped India a number of times. 2. In the 2014 elections that were held in India, there is a suspicion that Rus...
Jump to postAnd mind you, all the auto companies of the U.S. are bankrupt except for Tesla… Would you mind providing sources citing the court filings to back up that claim? I actually gave you better than that, did you see the video or see the Altman-z score. Where are they making money, only in China, elsewhe...
Jump to postWhat Western politicians need immediately is to be muzzled. Really. This third-rate "play by play", leak after leak account of how "Putin is losing his nerve", "Russian troops are inept", "Another Oligarch turns on Putin", "Finger-pointing inside the Kre...
Jump to postThe US, Australia and Canada will not allow Chinese EV's to have anything more than a tiny fraction of such a strategic industry. If that weren't so, they would already have a significant percentage of the market. Plus tariffs would be 30% or more (as on Chinese solar panels) More and more, China i...
Jump to postWas reading an excerpt of this today, seems the fossil fuel car manufacturing industry can't pay its workers enough - https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2022/03/15/michigan-auto-industry-hiring-labor-shortage/9417596002/ Meanwhile, the Chinese EVs are about to hit the U.S. Australia, and other m...
Jump to postThe Chinese C919 program - https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2022-02-11/china-plays-long-game-c919-development Another take on the C919 - https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/china-is-hoping-to-begin-deliveries-of-its-first-mainline-airliner-soon-hereaposs-how-the-jet-comp...
Jump to postAdding to the above, we would need 5000 odd pilots, about 10k FA's and all kinds of service personnel. China has been running its pilot program for 5-6 years now. We haven't. This was also disclosed or shared on the recent China Airlines where there were 4 pilots, The Chinese are looking to make mor...
Jump to postCame across this today - https://www.livemint.com/news/india/indian-airlines-will-need-2-100-new-aircraft-over-next-20-years-airbus-11648108017099.html Now while I can't predict what will happen 20 years down the line, can predict say 2-3 years which I have said above. Domestically, we will run, but...
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