Nio’s sub brand Onvo just announced its price today.
Without battery, price is 150k rmb, or ~$20k.
If doubling the price due to tariff to $40k, that is still competitive in the US.
Model 3, ID.4 is around that price range in the US (excl. credit).
If counting US gov subsidy, that’s $7.5k price advantage for US-made EV. But this subsidy won’t be here forever.
The point is, even with 100% tariff, it’s not entirely unaffordable for Chinese EV brands.
Not to say this is problematic.
But do feel that not doing this is more normal.
Sep 10: finished BlackMyth: Wukong!
Paused a bit longer than originally planned due to this monumental game production.
Quality is impressive especially initially, but feel that the content can be improved if given more time and resources.
Working on personal priorities (think through married life and kids)
Lee Hsien Loong steps down after 20 years (2004-2024) serving as the PM of Singapore. [3rd longest after Turkey and Russia (?); Putin had 8+12 years and started another 6-year term so 26 years at the end of current term]
Singapore had a Lee leader for 45 of its 59 years of nationhood. The new PM Wong won’t have a Lee leader waiting after him.
From my understanding, there is not much political freedom even though Singapore is a democracy.
Hope it may advance / experiment new norm for overseas Chinese.
I recently read a book on Qing dynasty. People’s life sounds a bit pathetic, although from population growth or national wealth perspective it looked very strong.
I don’t believe Chinese society always needs a strictly controlled system, which had been the case for thousands of years.
Eventually, there should be new form of civilization structure that’s very different from now.
But fundamentally, I think Xiaomi is doing similar things as Nio or XPeng did. Difference is that Xiaomi is more efficient, has larger scale / fan base etc.
Apple Shortcuts has many drawbacks I think.
However, it seems to me that on future hardware, users should be able to use verbal communication to replicate human interactions, in a way that even the hardware can’t distinguish if it’s AI or human. Or to imagine that you have an assistant to do all the work on iPhone for you, and that assistant is AI.