China is beating Elon Musk at the Tesla game
NY Post
It is easy to forget that Elon Musk’s main business isn’t being king of the social-media trolls but making cars.
Maybe the news that Tesla has slipped into second place in the electric car market behind a Chinese rival will focus his infamously wandering mind.
(Don’t let marijuana happen to you, kids!)
When Chinese electric-car maker Changan introduced its SL03 sedan in 2022, it was plainly a clone of the Tesla Model 3—such an obvious knockoff that you’d half expect to see them for sale on Canal Street, somewhere between the counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags and the fake Rolex watches.
Other Chinese makers have copied everything from Tesla’s user interface to its website design.
In 2019, Tesla won a settlement from a former employee accused of stealing its Autopilot technology for a Chinese rival.
