How about tomorrow?

I am still using my OG Chromecast from 2014.

Article from 2023

the battery itself is $25

Kinda steep considering a 3rd party store in Singapore charges a similar amount including labour for a battery replacement for a old redmi note 7.

This article was posted for half a day. I suspect you only made your comment based on the headline without actually reading the content of the article.

What does this comment have to do with the posted article?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/electric-vehicles-bidirectional-charging-national-grid

Rule 1 does not apply here?

Sodium batteries are already in electric cars many months ago

https://www.engadget.com/the-first-ev-with-a-lithium-free-sodium-battery-hits-the-road-in-january-214828536.html

Also you could buy individual cells on AliExpress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6zcI1GrkK4

If you have been following the Chinese solar industry, you would be aware that solar manufacturers from China, such as Suntec etc have gone bankrupt over the past decade or more. China’s approach of allowing underperforming solar companies to go bankrupt is one of the reasons why their solar industry is so formidable.

Well at least whatever profit Kia can’t make in China due to the low price. They can hopefully gain back from markets outside China thanks to the lack of competition driving prices down.

The opposite of dumping is happening. For example the Kia EV5 is sold at [$20k in China](https://electrek.co/2023/11/17/kia-launches-20k-ev5-electric-suv-china-rival-tesla-model-y/) while the same made in China model is sold overseas [Starting at $46k](https://electrek.co/2024/04/04/kia-set-to-export-this-all-electric-suv-at-a-price-that-undercuts-tesla/)

According to this reddit post many European car brands are offering massive discounts to compensate for lack of sales.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1d9d2fv/as_china_shifts_to_evs_dealers_forced_to_offer/

China is already at around 50% of new cars being plugin electric

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/26/44-plugin-vehicle-market-share-in-china-april-2024-sales-report/

So Europe went from suggesting decoupling from China to de-risking and now this?

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

Henry Kissinger

Tesla’s made-in-China cars lead market in quality while US-made Tesla cars score lowest

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This is for the S series lineup. Samsung still have their A series and M,F,C series in other markets.

to the point where Russia was worried about Chinese influence in Ukraine

Is there a source on that?

That’s false. The same car is sold in Mexico & Brazil and probably other countries as well

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/01/byd-dolphin-mini-rolling-in-mexico-cheapest-electric-car-by-far/