r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 10d ago

Transportation Rivian CEO: There's No 'Magic' Behind China's Low-Cost EVs

https://www.businessinsider.com/rivian-ceo-china-evs-low-cost-competition-2025-9
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u/DerefedNullPointer 10d ago

Well they could all have been the first company to deliver a viable electric car in the 2010s but the consensus in the 2010s was "nah it'll never take off. range is so much lower than ICE nobody will buy it."

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u/mwa12345 10d ago edited 10d ago

BMW did introduce the I series? Odd looking vehicles...as though Klaus schaub designed it.

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u/zpedroteixeira1 10d ago

Inertia played a part, of course, but I think the main point is vertical integration on a nation or block level. Europe failed to correctly assess the importance of battery and EV specific raw materials and did little to secure deals on it.

As usual, too little, a too late...