EVs - Tesla, the last defence line falling

  Tesla reported its first fall in yearly deliveries on Thursday (Dec 2) as lucrative year-end incentives for the Elon Musk-led electric vehicle maker's aging lineup and the new Cybertruck pickup failed to lure customers wary of high borrowing costs.

Musk had earlier predicted "slight growth" in 2024 deliveries and offered a range of promotions including interest-free financing and free fast-charging to boost sales....

The two companies are currently competing at different price ranges. The starting price of Tesla’s cheapest model at around US$31,900 in China is more than triple the sticker price of BYD’s lowest-priced model. That is the Seagull, an all-electric hatchback starting at US$9,900, which surpassed 280,000 units in sales last year, accounting for nearly a fifth of all BYD battery EVs sold last year. CNA

American and western tech superiority crumbling and failing one by one. Boeing, the iconic American company is about to hit the dust. In automobiles, America legends like Ford, GM, Buick, Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, are still stuck in the legacy car shit hole and unable to make any headway in EVs. All their EVs can be described as expensive, inefficient and backward.

The only American EV that is still kicking is Tesla. Musk thought that his involvement in politics, to be Trump's right hand man would propel Tesla to new heights. Never has he ever thought of how the Americans would see him, how his actions have caused so much pain and misery to the American working class and now boomeranged to his Tesla cars. The anger and hate against Musk have been translated to anti Tesla EVs. Tesla cars are not only scratched, spray painted, but smashed and burnt on the roads. Car buyers are afraid to own a Tesla for fear of arson attacks. 

Tesla sales have plummeted, and all the good works of the past are now history.  Tesla is also going to bite the dust. On the other hand, Tesla's Chinese competitors are rolling out more and better models that made Tesla cars looking dated. Sales of Chinese EVs, despite the tariffs, are soaring and overtaking Tesla.

Tesla is the last line of defence in American tech industries. China is overtaking everyone of them, including the tough chip industry. China has caught up and running ahead with new technologies to surpass the Americans in chip making. With Tesla going down, there is now nothing in the American industrial arsenal to stay and compete with China. Trump has in his direct foolish ways destroy the whole American industrial competitiveness vis a vis China and the rest of the world.

It is now China running ahead with the Americans fading in the rear mirror. Nothing is going to stop China anymore. Even in the exclusive world of fashion, Made in China is the real stuff, the brand for quality and superior craftsmanship and reasonable prices.

GE2025 - Anything interesting to watch?

 We are in the middle of the GE campaigning and nothing unusual or exciting has cropped up other than the usual stuff. Overall, this GE is going to look like the past GEs and at best hoping for some surprises or upsets. The eastern part of the island is looking like a contest between the PAP and WP, but the results are likely to be the same as the last GE. WP is likely to hold on to their gains but not looking to make more headways. If there is any, it is likely to be from the SMCs.

What is interesting to watch is on the western front. Paul Tambyah of SDP is looking like the most electable opposition candidate and is facing Liang Eng Hwa of PAP, not exactly a heavy weight in Bukit Panjang SMC. The best of the opposition facing an average PAP candidate.  There is really nothing much to fault this professor and not much mud can be thrown at him. PAP would have a hard time trying to present Liang Eng Hwa as a better choice than Tambyah.

The biggest contest is likely to be in West Coast Jurong GRC. Desmond Lee is the anchor man of the PAP team, a measured politician that does not court controversy or involved in grandstanding. Would he be enough to carry a team that is not looking that spectacular against Tan Cheng Bock of PSP and his team? Cheng Bock is an old hand with many supporters built over decades in politics. He is supported by an increasingly popular Leong Mun Wai and Hazel Poa. The two minority candidates also have solid credentials, making the team fairly formidable.

Cheng Bock and Mun Wai combination is about the strongest available from the opposition camp. This is going to be a tough battle for Desmond Lee and his team. Tharman is no longer there to helm the team and nothing needs to be said about Iswaran's legacy. If there is any major upset in GE2025, this is where it gonna happens.

PSP is optimistic, throwing all their big names into West Coast Jurong GRC. PAP's big guns are somewhere else. This is a big test of Desmond Lee's weight as an anchor minister. He is carrying all the weight himself against PSP's big guns. It is going to be very close.

The more Trump lies, the more he discredits himself

 Trump now claims that Xi called him regarding the tariff war. Beijing categorically denied everything that is trotted out by the USA, claiming no such event is happening and are just fake news. Now, who do we believe?

Trump already caved to China earlier as most people are saying, by talking about bringing down the tariffs against China in the face of demands by Beijing that any talk can only proceed with Trump's tariffs out of the way. That stand is as clear as daylight, with claims that Xi called Trump just an illusion. Words must be matched by action, not just releasing hot air. China is waiting for Trump to get the tariffs out of the way first before talks can proceed.

Is this a move meant for the stock market to shoot up again for his cronies to make more money? I would not discount the motive.

Anonymous

Silly Asians courting dangers for their Women folks

 Silly Asians that allowed the Americunts Barbarians and Savages Military to have their Bases in their Countries are courting dangers for their Women folks.

The Americunts soldiers sre deemed to be immune to their Civil Laws as they are protected by their own Miltary Rules and Laws.

They could caused havocs and only their own Provost or Military Police could handle them.

As usual in their damn BS justice where their own could simply closed their eyes and pardoned all their own kakis and lackeys and cronies no actions would be taken against them.

For a Facade, they might said that they are been punished but what's the Hell you know behind their enclosed Miltary Bases and Camps.

They might be even be feasbted as Heros! For their BRAVO!

See when their Naval Forces are in any Country's ports of calls, their own SP, Sea or Special Police are always be seen on the shores as a
deterrent to warn them of causing troubles.

To them the Civil Laws or that country Police are NOT allow to touch them.

Our time in 60s, i.e in 67 and around 69 when we first started our own of building up our SAF where at that time Singapore still followed the International Rules of Miltary Ordinance, our own Provost which we were known at that time were tasked with the duties of enforcing the discipline and arrests of any Foreign Military Forces in our country at that time with the co-operations of also their own MPs or SPs.

Also our own soldiers are also subjected under the SAF Act Miltary Rules and Laws to be under the supervision and lawful arrests only by the Provost or Miltary Police.

One time Matland had their one KD Singapura in the North of our Island.
Their Personnel also subjected to Miltary Rules and Laws and our own MPs used to handle their boisterous behaviours as most if not Miltary Servicemen are usually the Gangsters and Unruly Ones in our time of the 60s to 70s.

Now different scholarly Ones.

Now Singapore SPF are empowered to arrest the SAF soldiers and also any Foreign Military Personnel if they were to commit any offences.

But frankly, only our own, the UAss Miltary Personnel or other Allied Forces, still pang chance lah.

Refer to their own justice with exception those really seizable and penal offences.

So the South Koreans, the Japanese are foolish to have these White Barbarians in their Countries.

Ask For the Pinoys, aiya welcomed for their monies and sins.

No eyes see

Virgo49

China retaliates with rare earth and food ban, waiting for farmers to cry to Trump

 China does not need huge responses to counter the USA. Just a tiny retaliation using rare earth causes massive pain. Such a calibrated retaliation costs China relatively little damage to its citizens but reaps massive benefits for China. China's retaliation is calibrated to induce massive harm to the USA.

China retaliated against the USA's agricultural sector during Trump's first term trade war, creating chaos for USA farmers and in this second Trump's term is going in for the kill by wiping out most USA farmers and their livelihood. These are also the MAGA base of Trump voters, besides manufacturing, and are turning them against the Trump administration.

Farmers in USA are unlikely to find ways to go back to business as usual with China ever again. Farmers in Brazil, Argentina and Russia are taking over their businesses with China forever. The Chinese market is gone for them, with no credible substitute for volume and size to match. This is what 'Make USA Great Again' is turning into and is making China even greater.

China does not ever been known to shout about 'Making China Great Again' and let the reality shout for itself. The USA can shout itself coarse but reaps little benefit. Empty vessels make the most noise.

Anonymous