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Taiwan has a relatively complete supply chain for electric vehicle components, and companies such as Tesla rely heavily on Taiwanese suppliers for a
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excerpt: "...75% of
Tesla, Inc.’s suppliers are Taiwanese..."
But that isn't your question:
As the increasingly unrecognised institutional twin of mainland China, Taiwan will never be able to host major global events like the Olympics, as its neighbour Japan will do in 2020. But with quiet diligence, the tiny island – which officially still calls itself the Republic of China – builds...
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Although Taiwan does not have major local car brands the traditional Japanese manufacturers have branded ib Taiwan.
Perhaps the most famous over the years is:
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Taiwan not only has Apple's largest supplier by far, ignoring practically every other tech company,Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, Inc Known more widely as Foxconn but they also have TSMC, but everyone knows them, that first word is 'Taiwan' by the way.
So, yes, Taiwan has an amazingly vibrant auto industry, mostly building foreign designed cars and supplying an amazing variety of high tech and other parts to the world. Every major Taiwanese company has operations in China too, and the majority of them are widely thought to be Chinese themselves. (they all look alike, doncha know?).
It would be very easy for Tesla to set up a major factory in Taiwan, they would not even need to change suppliers, just the shipping address. The big question is why? Since there are no obis advantages from a supplier, tariff or cost perspective much less salaries, it seems a strange choice. OTOH a CKD might be nice to do. The infrastructure to support more teslas is already well in place:
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The market is ripe for the picking:
"Taiwan, with 24 million people, is a relatively small EV market. Tesla accounted for more than 90.35% of the EV market with,
5,746 cars sold in the past year, up from 3,136 in 2019. And with more than 4,000 units in sales, the company's Model 3 topped the charts." from Asia-Pacific Research Exchange
Sorry for the overly detailed rebuttal. FWIW, OT, I have a strong personal affinity to Tainan and the whole of Taiwan. It is one of the most underrated places in the world, in my opinion.
