SirSteven
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foreign car brands used to make up the vast majority of the Chinese car market since China's opening up and the arrival of VW in the 1980s buuuuuuut foreign car brands in China have now sunk to an historic low of BELOW 25% of the market 🟠orange line = foreign & JV brands 🔵blue = Chinese brands
Bluesky CEO… good to see that stated plainly and publicly
Toni Schneider@toni.bsky.team · yesterdayThanks. Yes, that's what I was trying to say, but took too long to get there. Our politics community is strong, and I'd love for us to expand into new communities. Science and sports have already taken off. Birding, gardening, K-pop, we're open to all (except nazis and jerks).
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
In theory, this is surely the end of the road for Lucid once you’ve spooked customers with the idea that the company is unstable, it’s just a death spiral from here
Nathaniel William Horadam@horadam.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is uh...uh...uh...uhgly. ir.lucidmotors.com/news-release...
NEW: Elon Musk clearly hates talking about Tesla's stagnant car biz these days so @russellbrandom.bsky.social and I mapped out just how much it's taken a back seat on the company's earnings calls. Musk now spends half or more of his time talking about AI & robotics: techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...
Good to see MKBHD ripping into the piss-poor Lexus ES EV. Far too many American reviewers fawn over substandard American market offerings and fail to give context about precisely how bad they are youtu.be/QQ97R1nhq4M?...
Keen to see Larry Ellison crying on Fox News as he begs and pleads into camera for a bailout
Barchart@barchart.com · 2d agoOracle's $ORCL risk of default has soared to its highest level in history, surpassing the peak of the Global Financial Crisis 🚨 🚨
There’s a lot of very lazy cloning happening in China's EV industry these days yes there’s still plenty of original design too, buuuuuuut some brands are definitely trying to get away with rapid copying 
meanwhile, American oligarchs (Flock, Palantir) are free to spy on Americans in any way they want
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈@jaspar.bsky.social · 5d agoRemember when the FCC banned new routers? Well now they've gone and banned new robot vacuums (not just Roomba brand, btw). www.theverge.com/policy/97231...
in July, just 3 Chinese brands exported nearly three quarters of a million cars (BYD, Chery, Geely)
CnEVPost@cnevpost.com · 5d agoBYD July sales jump 21.8% as overseas deliveries hit fresh record BYD sold 419,211 NEVs at wholesale in July, up 21.76% year-on-year, the third consecutive month of annual growth. cnev.co/uzCxO10 👇
Lexus ES (EV) costs around $60k and and does **150 kW** charging... truly pitiful in a large car in 2026 www.motortrend.com/reviews/firs...
Tested: The Lexus ES350e EV Is a Commuting All-Star
The 2026 Lexus ES350e is like no ES luxury sedan we’ve ever driven: It’s electric. But is that a good thing? We test it to find out.
motortrend.com
mmmmmm... can Porsche actually recover if it totally bombs out of the China market?
Felix Hamer • electricfelix@electricfelix.eurosky.social · 6d ago@gunter-dueck.bsky.social: "Porsche can't survive in its current form" and is pinning all its hopes on the combustion-engine Macan, which is coming in 2028. Oh people, the "loser talk" is getting worse and worse www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/mich...
Hyundai IONIQ 3 looks fab and it'll be about £25,000 in the UK, (US$33,500) electrek.co/2026/07/29/h...
we all know this, of course - but it's important to have a good writer and a major media outlet spell this out clearly and convincingly Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society archive.md/zfeig (NYT)
if you like news and want to avoid social clutter, @mu.social "Newsrooms" feature works well (it works with your Bluesky login) there's no algorithm and you can configure it to your interests
ok let's recap how badly Ford - one of the most incompetently run companies on earth - is doing... - Ford needs help from VW to build 2 EV models - Ford needs help from Renault to build a new EV hatchback - Ford needs help from Geely to rescue its under-used Spanish factory & build EV crossover
get ready for the second oil crisis of the year caused by US-Israel zealots www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Asia ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’ as Red Sea oil blockade worsens energy crisis
The Houthi threat to Saudi oil exports comes as Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are still reeling from the closure of the strait of Hormuz
theguardian.com
Gesturing at the CEO, Trump said: “He calls me all the time: ‘Can we get rid of this environmental piece of garbage?’” Everything wrong with the car situation in the U.S. is a result of GM and Ford lobbying. GM and Ford are the bad guys.
Senators urge Ford to disclose suspected lobbying over Trump’s climate rollbacks
Sheldon Whitehouse adds auto giant to investigation after US president claimed CEO requests changes to regulations
theguardian.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "It's amazing what tariffs will do for General Motors, and what the election has done ... the rest of the world doesn't love me, but that's ok"
North Korea now has better EVs than America because Chinese EVs keep appearing there. The lettering on the license plate says Pyongyang and that’s clearly a Chinese Li Auto EV
FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
futurism.com
it's astounding that one of the worst Chinese legacy automakers - and partially state-owned too! - has made such huge inroads overseas. Chery has truly created some absolute turds in its time - and its current cars are pretty meh as well
CnEVPost@cnevpost.com · 2w agoChery reaches 20 million sales with a third of owners outside China Chery Group exported 943,817 vehicles in the first half of this year, up 71.5% year-on-year. cnev.co/O4pfrw3 👇
Elon Self-Dealing Musk wants to merge all his companies - realistically he’ll have to do it while the felon is president, so by 2028 electrek.co/2026/07/22/e...
Elon Musk hints at Tesla (TSLA)-SpaceX merger on earnings call
Elon Musk hinted at a Tesla-SpaceX merger on Tesla's Q2 2026 earnings call, citing 'more and more overlap' but saying it needs 'the appropriate process.'
electrek.co
