Almost all new cars sold in Norway last year were fully electric, according to official registration data published Friday. It puts the Nordic country within touching distance of effectively erasing gasoline and diesel cars from its new car market. “2025 has been a very special car year,” Geir Inge Stokke, director of the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council, said in a statement.
They’re a newer industrial power and still at the lower end of manufacturing prowess, basically.
Like, you can find high-end manufacturing in China, but not at the same scale. For most performance stuff they import from the West, like everyone else.
And a good deal of the parts were manufactured in China, with a spec which didn’t request trash.
Depends. If it’s a jet engine, the wires might ultimately trace back to China, and the aluminum in the faring. The more demanding parts will be made in the West, though. Otherwise there’s no reason not to assemble in China as well.
If the specs are really tight it might be harder to find someone over there who can meet them, basically, and I would guess the ones who can are in high demand and not that cheap.
Okay, sure, I was thinking cars and consumer products, not aerospace.
With more limited volume products like jet engine parts the savings of manufacturing in a lower cost country probably also diminish. There’s a constant overhead in outsourcing things to somewhere far away, and without enough volume to spread that cost over it doesn’t always make sense.
Plus they probably can’t outsource a lot of the stuff being made for the military, so there has to be domestic manufacturing capabilities for that sort of thing anyway.
Yeah, consumer products are usually easier, although there’s exceptions. Cutting edge semiconductors are the obvious example, but China has also struggled for a long time with the humble ball-point pen and it’s tiny, ink-spreading ball bearing.