www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-taking-apart-tesla-chinese-evs-jim-farley-2025-11
Apologies for ad filled article but Ford EV boss admits they stripped apart Tesla and Chinese EVs and were horrified with what they found and realised how far behind them Ford were.
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Makes a change to see someone discussing Chinese EVs and not just condemning them all out of hand. Farley knows exactly what he's talking about.. They need to be taken seriously.
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Anyone who deride Chinese cars as rubbish are likely
lto have a rude awakening. Of course they vary from manufacturer to manufacturer but for the most part they offer remarkable quality and value for money.
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Well a year ago the Xiaomi SU7 with 600 PS was having problems on the Nurburgring because the brakes were too small.
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tesla brakes are reknown for being poor
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We had all this in the 1970's.
The japanese came first and forced Ford and others to up their quality.
Then came the Koreans, now the Chinese.
Ok. at first they all rusted as badly, but the japanese and Koreans didn't break down.
In the 70's BL wre still using regurgitated versions of 1950's engines.
It was a repeat with the british motorcycle industry too. I remember the shock I had when I swapped my Triumph T160 for a Honda 750/4 and then later for a Yamaha 750 triple. No breakdowns or trying to get the thing started.
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>> We had all this in the 1970's.
>> The japanese came first and forced Ford and others to up their quality.
Quite so. I remember visiting a BL production facility yonks ago and noting the presence of a Lexus front door which had been stripped down to marvel at its innards - a far cry from the clunky mechanical unreliable door locking and window winder mechanisms found in West Midlands cars.
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I greatly admire the Chinese motor industry for their versatility. If you want them to build ‘cheap Chinese tat’, they’ll do it.
Equally if you're Chinese owned Lotus and design a car in Europe but want it built to immeasurably better standards than anything that ever rolled out of Norfolk, they’re equally as adept. The Eletre is my current, go to, first car I buy when my numbers come up.
Additionally, accusations of environmental waywardness are starting to become inaccurate. China is thought to have hit ‘peak carbon’ and is now on a downward curve with total CO2 emissions. Annually, they install more solar generation than the rest of the world combined.
They’re still the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, but now it’s heading the right way.
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Ford EVs boss article - Ethanedwards
