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Billionaire Elon Musk paid a surprise visit to China in a successful bid to secure Chinese government approval for the automatic driving features of his Tesla electric vehicles .
In April of 2021 the company faced a social media backlash from Chinese customers after a woman in a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “brake malfunction” and a Tesla logo jumped on top of a Tesla car on display at the Shanghai Auto Show, to draw attention to a crash involving her Model 3 she blamed on the company. Tesla later released the data log of the specific Model 3 to the owner, bowing to pressure from the market regulator.
CAAM gave Tesla its seal of approval for data privacy, and, following Musk’s visit to Beijing, Chinese web search giant Baidua deal to provide mapping and navigation data for Tesla’s full self-driving system. No such deal would have been possible without the endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party, which tightly controls Internet navigational data.that CAAM’s seal of approval and the Baidu deal will give Tesla customers more “confidence in driving them on the streets of China.
Other Chinese state media organs gleefully used Musk’s visit for propaganda purposes. As it does whenever American business leaders meet with Chinese officials, the state-runMusk’s visit as a repudiation of U.S. criticism of China’s trade practices, particularly the current controversy about “overcapacity.”Beijing in early April.
“Chinese analysts said Musk’s visit highlights the importance of the Chinese market to many American companies as they are enhancing ties, unlike politicians in Washington who always hype up anti-China rhetoric,” thenoted that while American and European consumers have been resistant to EVs, they have been embraced with gusto by Chinese consumers, who are reportedly now buying more EVs than gasoline-powered vehicles.
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