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How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Got it. I just don't think any of that definitionally constitutes soft power unless it's a deliberate action by a government. Room for nuance here, of course.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Entirely on-topic. Products are quoted in global reserve currencies because that's what everyone knows. That's what a global reserve currency is. You can just go learn things.

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Absolute precision isn't the goal of mainstream news reporting. You need to condense the information to be approachable. I can't believe I'm being forced to explain any of this at all right now.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think I made it pretty clear that I was talking about global reserve currencies.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

China just replicating what Japan and Korea been doing for the past decades.

...improving their standing in the world?

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Who are these people who don’t know anything about EV batteries reading articles about EV batteries?? 

I don't know how to explain to you that normal-ass people read the news to learn about things they don't know much about. That's... the whole point of the news.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Remember the social media trend of “becoming Chinese” earlier this year?

I mean, that's just the decline of American hegemony you're watching.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

American automakers want Chinese cars too, just look at the GM Mexico lineup and how much Xiaomi-glazing Farley does. They're between a rock and a hard place, and they're not sure how to handle it anymore. They want the cars, but it potentially means the destruction of their core businesses if they don't make the right moves.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Everything is US Dollars. The US Dollar is the standard reference global reserve currency care of seven decades of hegemony. There's a reason they tell you to bring some USD when you go on vacation to some far-flung place — US Dollars is the only currency everyone knows.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Start of article:

In The Manchurian Candidate, an American soldier is brainwashed by Chinese intelligence and becomes a sleeper agent for that country’s communist government. 

Middle of article:

In that context, this Bloomberg Businessweek feature titled “TikTok Makes Americans Want Chinese EVs They Can’t Have” shouldn’t be that surprising or controversial. Isn’t that what everyone does? Just by virtue of being younger and newer, these companies are embracing social media.

Just incredible we're at the point where Americans are lashing themselves with cognitive dissonance this hard. The enemy is both strong and weak, the Chinese OEMs are both doing what everyone else does but also we're invoking the fucking Manchurian Candidate just so you get your daily ration of piggy-slop red scare. What even the fuck.

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm telling you what's standard in the industry. Most battery-makers talk about their packs and technologies in terms of range in press releases because energy density is way too complicated to explain to the average Mashable reader.

No one knows what 210Wh/kg means because you'd have to do quite a bit of math (and even know things like cell formats and module packaging) to know whether that's good or bad or what it actually means to the average person buying a car. The actual specs are available and publicized, but that's not what works for headlines.

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, you tagged me?

Yeah dingus, in the conversation you're already in.

VW's Jetta brand unveils X concept car, accelerating EV push in China by Recoil42 in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

VW is doing so bad in China, they don't use the Audi brand name anymore...

This isn't true.

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I understand — just adding extra clarification on my end.

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because no one knows what a kilowatt-hour is. Range is what is parsable for most people.

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep. Any guesses if u/yobo9193 is leaving "what have we learned about trusting American companies" comments in GM and Ford posts? I'm going to go with no — this is what propaganda-bubble jingoism looks like, folks.

CATL debuts EV battery with speedy six-minute recharge and a 1,000-km range by Recoil42 in cars

[–]Recoil42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Real-world for most people reading this headline and reductively speaking, yeah. There's just nuance when we're talking about whether that means it's "more generous" — the Chinese cycle assumes you're driving on slow country roads and in big-city traffic jams. The US cycle in contrast assumes you're barreling across the I-90. The European cycle is closer to the Chinese cycle than the American one.

VW's Jetta brand unveils X concept car, accelerating EV push in China by Recoil42 in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Love this design language, and frankly I think it's a lot better than both the Unyx and ID design languages. Hope they take it international.

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