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China's Electric Vehicle Factories Have Become Tourist Hotspots (www.wired.com)

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Chinese EV brands, Xiaomi and Nio, offer regular tours for the general public this year, and three more automakers have announced plans to follow suit.

People who have visited the Xiaomi factory say they were struck by the amount of automation on display. The company says that the overall automation rate at the factory has reached 91 percent, with some production lines like casting fully automated.

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[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember touring one of the Mercedes factories in Germany many years ago and it was the coolest fucking thing watching an army of robot arms putting cars together. Of course they've since stopped giving tours (and I think closed the factory altogether?), probably because manufacturing in China is cheaper. >:(

[–] TheodorAlforno@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

There's still a lot of manufacturing going on in Stuttgart. Despite a lot of it being moved abroad.