You forgot slavery. Oh! I meant to say reeducation programs.
Also. killing themselves. Production overcapacity is not sustainable.
They also own the minerals ( lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, rare earths), dominate in battery tech and scaled quickly because unlike The West they treated EVs as a national priority and not a niche. And then you look at companies like BYD who make the batteries, chips and cars which is perfect vertical integration.
A production version of the Xiaomi SU7 broke the Nurbrgring Eauto record, lapping the track in 7 minutes and 4.95 seconds.
Hard to imagine, my best time in my old Porsche was ten and a half minutes
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A commenter on one of Misha Charoudin‘s videos (may have been the Model S with Track Package, may have been a different EV) once said:
„This is the first video where the participants don’t sound like they’re pressing a kidney stone“
Now, that’s a quick vacuum cleaner 
The driver was super clean. Tires squealed in only 2 or 3 turns. Battery/motor power until the end of the lap = no heating problems after 20+ km of abuse. Same for breaks. Maybe production cars will last some years.
Picked up the new company car this week. A Dacia Duster hybrid….
There is a reason that thing is the cheapest SUV on the market. 
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Got one of those as a hire car a couple of years back…I understand your pain…
Oof. Thoughts and prayers…
I am astonished how some mid management drone could possibly have thought a Dacia would make a car suitable for a field service technician.
I have to admit though I do like the drive chain, Peugeot I think.
But everything else, I have had it since Wednesday and now after 2500 km I find it not very comfortable, it is limited to 160, probably because bits would fly off if you went faster.
It’s plasticky, things move that shouldn’t, the trim is cheap and don’t slam the doors
They are supposed to last five years.. LOL, I give it two.
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Can’t slam the doors? How are you going to live up to your name?
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I see Dacia Dusters all over Switzerland. I had imagined they were good, given how popular they seemed to be!
Me too, they’re everywhere.
I guess they’re cheap.
Renault. Renault Clio to be precise.
The first Dacias were based on the Renault 8, and then 12 and the collaboration exists today as Renault owns Dacia.
Nothing wrong with Dacias apart from them not having the perceived cachet of the German marques.
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Four wheel drive is good
I don’t think that they are crap per-se, if you want to do your shopping or jettison the kiddies, but if your car is your work place where you spend hours and hours then it should not be so „tinny“
And in all seriousness, I would not want to have a bad accident in a Dacia.
A 3* safety rating from NCAP is pretty dire by todays standards.
Shares the same platform as the Clio but not really based on it.
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Some Dacias get one star!
There can be not so much difference between a three star and a five star. Not in this case but sometimes lower priced cars get a lower rating as they lack safety features such as a warning indicator which warns you that you have not put your seatbelt on.
In my opinion, if simple things like that are something that people forget easily then perhaps driving is not for them.
I’m not trying to state that a lower rating is desirable but pointing out that it’s not really so much of a big deal - most modern cars are pretty safe.
Before some clever-dick points out that the BMW rating has expired - they don’t test every year (it’s voluntary anyway) - a fascia refresh would not result in the need for a retest.
All cars sold in Europe have to meet a minimum safety rating.
If one did not sleep thru physics 101, they would know that safety tests only compare cars crashing into a car of the same weight and opposing force. Still a good indicator, but keep in mind, if a BMW X something hits a lighter weight Duster not only the Duster will end up in the dust.