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Fiat Chrysler in talks with Foxconn to develop electric cars
Associated Press ^ | January 17, 2020

Posted on 01/17/2020 8:29:45 AM PST by Olog-hai

Fiat Chrysler is in talks with the Chinese company Foxconn to develop and manufacture battery-powered vehicles, the U.S.-Italian automaker said Friday.

Fiat Chrysler is in the process of merging with France’s PSA Peugeot, which is 12% owned by Chinese company Dongfeng Motor Co.

Both Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot have lagged in developing electric powertrains and also have been struggling to increase sales in China, the world’s biggest auto market.

It was unclear what impact Fiat Chrysler’s proposed joint venture with Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd., would have on the wider merger, which is expected to be completed in the next year or so.

If a deal with Foxconn is reached, a joint venture would focus first on China, the biggest market for electric cars with 1.2 million vehicles sold last year — half the global total. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: china; chrysler; dongfeng; electriccars; elonmusk; europeanunion; eussr; falcon9; falconheavy; fcau; fiat; fiatchrysler; fourthreich; foxconn; france; honhai; peugeot; redchina; socialmarketeconomy; spacex; tesla; toyota; volkswagen
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1 posted on 01/17/2020 8:29:45 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Electric cars made by slave labor. That’s a great idea!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7443221/Apple-iPhone-factory-China-banned-workers-quitting-forced-work-overtime.html


2 posted on 01/17/2020 8:31:10 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Olog-hai

China is going to steal all the technology.


3 posted on 01/17/2020 8:32:00 AM PST by setter
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To: Olog-hai
LOL

We'll all be driving these before long

These are Chinese 'electric vehicles'

4 posted on 01/17/2020 8:32:53 AM PST by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: Olog-hai

With those three companies, what could go wrong?


5 posted on 01/17/2020 8:34:48 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: Olog-hai

Welp, that should be the end of electric cars. They killed Chrysler, they’re working on killing Jeep and Fiat cars are a 50 year joke.


6 posted on 01/17/2020 8:47:00 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder how much Tesla tech will be in those cars. Tesla had to give over it’s trade secrets in order to do business there.


7 posted on 01/17/2020 8:57:30 AM PST by DEPcom
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To: Olog-hai

In TALKS?? LOL. Meanwhile Tesla is conquering the world.


8 posted on 01/17/2020 8:58:25 AM PST by montag813
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I see an awful lot of Tesla in the NY area.

When in North Carolina with my family you see a few but not like NY.

Whenever I see one of the other electric cars(I do a LOT of commuting)they always look like they are falling apart, do you see the same?

If you remember the south park episode about smug, it was a goof on the Smuggness of those drivers now driving cars falling apart. LOL

Freegards


9 posted on 01/17/2020 9:20:33 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Uversabound

I see a lot of Teslae here in W. WA. All look brand new.


10 posted on 01/17/2020 9:23:49 AM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: Olog-hai

Electric cars are monumentally stupid, unless and until the power grid infrastructure is built up to handle it.


11 posted on 01/17/2020 9:33:23 AM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Yeah, cause we all know how dependable FIATs have been...”Fix It Again Tony”...


12 posted on 01/17/2020 9:42:36 AM PST by elteemike (lable)
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To: BuffaloJack
They’re monumentally stupid even with the infrastructure thereof.
13 posted on 01/17/2020 10:35:29 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RitchieAprile

The name isn’t Latin.


14 posted on 01/17/2020 10:35:59 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RitchieAprile

Im talking the prius type vehicle not tesla.


15 posted on 01/17/2020 12:44:49 PM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: BuffaloJack

monumentally stupid

I remember a few months ago Rush was talking about having to replace gas stations with electric charge stations.

I forget the stats but it was impossible to do but ridiculously so that it made me laugh out loud.


16 posted on 01/17/2020 12:59:21 PM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Uversabound

most of the Priae I see look pretty new as well. but then it doesn’t get crazy cold here either..


17 posted on 01/17/2020 1:03:35 PM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: Olog-hai

Not so fast..........

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as FOXCONN Technology Group and better known as FOXCONN, is a TAIWANESE multinational electronics contract manufacturing company with its headquarters in Tucheng, New Taipei, TAIWAN. Wikipedia


18 posted on 01/17/2020 3:21:21 PM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: Olog-hai

The linked story correctly lists FOXCONN as from Taiwan WTF?????


19 posted on 01/17/2020 3:23:44 PM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: DAC21

I know that; but this is like when they call parts of Israel “Palestine”; the left-wing media is calling anything Taiwan “China” as if it were the PRC.


20 posted on 01/17/2020 3:26:37 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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