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Tesla sales in Britain and Germany fall by more than 55% as China’s BYD soars (www.cnbc.com)

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Data published by the U.K.’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed Tesla’s new car sales dropped by nearly 60% to 987 units last month, down from 2,462 a year ago.

BYD sold 3,184 units in the U.K. in July, more than quadrupling its sales from a year ago. The company enjoyed similar success in Germany, notching a year-on-year sales uptick of nearly 390%.

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[–] lambipapp@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are loads of good electric cars coming out right now, both with android and not, both chinease and European.

To list a few:

Renault 5
Lynk & co 02
Ford Capri
Polestar 4
Volvo EX 30 & 90
Volkswagen ID (multiple models)
Zeekr 007
Mercedes

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

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

Good luck with your purchase :D

Thanks, I hate it :)

[–] lambipapp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Etnaphele@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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 :)

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

kernel and OS

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.

[–] Etnaphele@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I know Lucid should have good infotainment. Buggy in the beginning but should have improved. Maybe the Midsize platform will bring a good contender!