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The column lines up the bans, the Connected Vehicles Rule on cars, DJI import limits, tariffs on solar and EVs, and contrasts them with a US that once raced to buy the best of everything. It quotes the line that China now resembles the competitive capitalism Americans were taught to admire.

The flip from the thread: one OpenAI researcher worries AI hype is a way to avoid admitting the US can't build competitive cars and drones, while another argues the export bans on top US AI models mostly hand the lead to whoever isn't banned.

Built under her six-year Plan México, the car targets a summer 2027 launch with 2,000 charging stations planned across Mexico City, the State of Mexico and Puebla, and domestic content rising from about 50% to 75% by 2030.

The instinct to judge it against US cars misses the target: Mexicans say its real rival is the motorcycle, and getting 100,000 riders off two wheels would cut accident costs more than it threatens Detroit.

The linked page is raw data labeled 'Industrial Production: Battery,' indexed to 2017 — no value, no chemistry breakdown. As one reader noted, breaking your own record every year is what a rising line does.

The context that recolored everything: 2025 cell-production capacity at roughly USA 70 GWh, Europe 252, China 1,755. The US line is genuinely up and, in global terms, still tiny — and the materials are mined overseas anyway.

The specs are blunt: 1,000-volt systems, 10–70% in about five minutes even at −20°C, against Tesla's 500 kW ceiling. BYD already built 5,700 of these stations in China in roughly a year.

The reassuring answer, from people who know batteries: heat is the enemy, not speed, and BYD dips its cells in phase-changing coolant. The worried answer: flash charging is 3x faster than the fast-charging we've actually studied.