It’s those dirty leftists! We must run Cheney as a VP. Wait I’ve seen this one before.

This meme is fire.

Wow, that’s incredible. Israel won’t be happy about it. The hasbara budget can’t cover a flying palace yet.

Threaten them with giving the money and rights to BYD.

I’m just kidding! A stern finger wagging would do.

That’s just an externality.

GM says it prototyped approximately 300 full-size LMR cells as it worked with LG Energy Solution to perfect the chemistry.

Emphasis is mine. LG is most likely the main research actor here.

He’s completely delusional on both points.

I thought that name sounded familiar.

Most of us have started from the default programming. I didn’t get a lot of what I get today when I moved from Reddit. I know it can feel shitty to keep repeating the same things and make the same arguments over and over again but that’s the process of teaching.

Higher cost of labour drives capital investment to increase productivity in order to make more profit with less labour time. Lower cost of labor allows profits be made with lower productivity. Cost of labour in Canada is lower as far as I’m aware. One obvious difference is free healthcare which is not only paid by employers in the US but is also significantly more expensive.

If only it affected us the peasants… If anything the copyright holders might try increasing royalties on us to compensate.

Is the foreign ownership a surprise?

The Stellantis factory in Windsor seems to be on track to make cells this year. But someone has to put them in cars. Cars that are affordable.

Layoffs face:

Do you have a source for this? Anywhere I look says that bunker fuel refers to heavy fuel oil which is very much not diesel.

Kind of. The high level OS modules are using QNX, Linux and Android. Lower level modules can be more arcane.

Am working in NA automotive and data collection is very much discussed in terms of what’s allowed in different jurisdictions and modules are configured differently for different markets accordingly.

If the manufacturers we have here don’t want to make EVs, we have no EV manufacturing jobs to protect. Unless we’re planning to live on ICE vehicles into the climate crisis, we have to get a source of EVs. The options are import and FDI (foreign direct investment (build factories here)). FDI is probably preferable since it gives us the ability to make the vehicles we use. If we go for import, we probably want the cheapest possible deal that fits the bill, unless we want to pay extra for a good reason. E.g. we may want to buy European. Of course we have to ask whether that’s worth the cost given that they source some of their components from China. I think some European autos are planning to use Chinese platforms for their vehicles. At that point it may or may not make sense to pay the premium. That differs from maker to maker. E.g. Renault’s latest EVs seem EU-made. More broadly, the less in corporate profits we pay for our EVs, the more money are left in our pockets to spend on other Canadians. The cheaper the EVs, the less the cost of Canadian businesses using them is and the more competitive they are.

Almost all laptops you’ve touched over the last decade are made in China or Vietnam. Most computer motherboards are made in China or Vietnam. My Framework laptop is made in Taiwan but its mainboard is Chinese. Most Android phones are made in China or Vietnam. So are most iPhones.

All of the factory software loading happens at the place of manufacture. Some of the software is made there too. Some of these computers have had compromised factory software which has been subsequently fixed. Cough… Lenovo… cough. Yet Lenovo is used at Canadian banks and other critical infrastructure places.

What I’m trying to say is that the computers on wheels aren’t a uniquely problematic domain. We have regulation for secure domains that systems have to pass audits and such. The same mechanism can be used for cars of any manufacture. I don’t know how BYD software updates work by default but for example Ford doesn’t do software updates without explicit agreement from the user letting them do it. If BYD works differently, it can be forced to change. Do you think the EU let BYD sell spying equipment on wheels that doesn’t comply with the GDPR? I doubt it. We can ask for the same software compliance.

It’s time to recognize that the US is fully capable and has deployed propaganda operations throughout the world over the years. We may or may not have been a target so far, but the more we try to decouple, the more we’re becoming a likely target. And they’re not gonna come out and say we’re being targeted.

Neoliberalism working out as well as expected.