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For comparison, Elon Musk's net worth is currently estimated at about $357 billion (not sure if that estimation includes recent Tesla stock prize).
Their cars are interesting. Perhaps one of the few that actually compete against Tesla. For my personal taste, they're a bit too.... big and pretentious.
edit Oh, BYD is also using fucking Android Automotive for their infotainment. And Polestar too. Why the fuck is Tesla the only EV company in the world whose head is not deep in their own ass? No wonder Tesla is still selling fine despite all the propaganda against it.
Make a decent car, anyone, please. I will buy it.
There are loads of good electric cars coming out right now, both with android and not, both chinease and European.
To list a few:
The Volkswagen Group uses their in house infotainmentsystem developed by cariad, while most chinease brands uses their in house ones as well. Volvo, Polestar and Renault uses android.
Good luck with your purchase :D
If I'm not mistaken, all the cars you listed have their infotainment system based on the Google platform. Cannot be absolutely sure though, this information is not easily available.
Thanks, I hate it :)
The OSs are android in the bottom yes. But not including google services. They are based on AOSP and that is no bad thing. If every car maker would have to develop their own kernel and OS we would have even less features and way more buggy systems. These companies just want to build cars, most of them are already dragging their feet when it comes to digitalisation and qualitative software experiences
On this topic: German carmakers signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” two months ago to set up a US-free open source platform. Pretty interesting but VW failed pretty hard last time, let’s see how this goes :)
These are fine, but seems to me that they're taking much more than that. The clumsy UX, that is. Tesla is probably based on Linux too.
This is my experience based on test driving VW ID.7 and Hyundai Ioniq 6 this year. I think I'll check out Polestar 4 next, but if it sucks in the same way, I might be discouraged to try further and just keep my Tesla.
I know Lucid should have good infotainment. Buggy in the beginning but should have improved. Maybe the Midsize platform will bring a good contender!
If you aren’t opposed to US companies, look into Rivian. Aptera is also supposed to start shipping vehicles soon and is a very unique take on transportation that focuses on extreme efficiency.
I'm not generally opposed, but smaller american car manufacturers don't tend to reach us here. Some guy just recently brought two Rivians to the country and it got into national news. So I'm guessing those two are the only ones here.