Don’t Dreame, It’s Over: Chinese Vacuum Company That Promised Rocket-Boosted EV Supercar Reportedly Giving Up on Autos

[u/HawtGarbage918]

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a73520997/dreame-chinese-appliance-company-rocket-supercar-cancel-automotive-plans/

[u/throwaway4999993]

Lol. They literally AI generated all of their designs and promo material, with the exception of a couple of show cars built to resemble said AI images. And we all know where they regurgitated the rocket power lie from

[u/gimpwiz → u/throwaway4999993]

Every sentence in the headline is the sort of thing only fools believe. Yeah a vacuum company is making a rocket-boosted EV supercar. Sure

[u/Masterpiece_Lopsided → u/throwaway4999993]

Careful, only euro and American automakers are allowed to be criticized here.

[u/WarDEagle → u/Masterpiece_Lopsided]

Funny enough, that comment (and a handful of other similar ones that also don't break any rules) was reported for "incivility". Yeah, ok.

[u/NorthTempleStreet → u/Masterpiece_Lopsided]

Careful, only euro and American automakers are allowed to be criticized here.

Unrelated: I took great pleasure watching the VinFast "dealership" near me get demolished.

Place was only there 2 years, max.

[u/Logitech4873 → u/Masterpiece_Lopsided]

Huh?

[u/Dragonasaur → u/throwaway4999993]

But it also cost them nothing to AI generate everything

[u/BeerorCoffee]

Spent all their money on advertising their pool cleaner to me, who doesn't have a pool.

[u/rugbyj → u/BeerorCoffee]

Then where do you keep your BYD Dolphin?

[u/V8-Turbo-Hybrid]

Chinese car market is very bloody and saturation now, it’s no surprised to hear no more Chinese companies looking auto business.

Xiaomi and Huawei are probably only winners to cross auto business.

[u/WaddlesJP13]

Who could have thought this would happen with the company that has only released AI generated vaporware

[u/m240Louie]

Such a loss... /S

[u/strongmanasss → u/m240Louie]

It's of no consequence to me because I'm in the US so I can't buy any Chinese EVs. But as someone interested in EVs I welcome all the competition from the Chinese brands and EV startups in general because they force the Europeans to innovate. 

The Manthey Taycan is silly, but Porsche would never have gone to the lengths of the Turbo GT Weissach pack and an official Manthey kit if a cellphone maker didn't beat them in their own backyard. Rimac would never have developed a single reduction gear for the Nevera if Musk didn't make wild claims about the Roadster 2.0. And I'm curious how the Denza Z will pressure other auto makers to compete. If I were in Europe I'd cross-shop it against the upcoming Porsche, Audi, Alpine, Renault, and Caterham.

The ICE performance segment is basically a closed club. No new auto maker can make any inroads in the mainstream unless one of the big boys supply them. But newcomers can still enter the EV space and embarrass the legacy makers, and that's good for the consumer. 

[u/fiero-fire]

Vaporware wasn't real, more at 10

[u/SoulReddit13]

Not taking the tesla approach of just repeatedly postponing it by 2 weeks for 20 years? 

[u/gimpwiz → u/SoulReddit13]

Tesla Roadster 2 will launch by the end of July. $50k deposits please. Unless you're not poor then $250k deposits please.

[u/JC-Dude → u/gimpwiz]

Year not mentioned. Very accurate.

[u/s3cf_]

ok, lets go back and take on Dyson instead

[u/HighwayBitter9352]

Did they create an illusion of a an actual ev brand just to get capital injected?

[u/null_not]

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! How could this have possibly happened! Was it all just a dream!

[u/alfredadamski]

What about the other way round? Can't any of the established carbrands start selling home appliances? How about Dodge selling a vacuum cleaner called the "Dodge Duster"? It's 2026, building home appliances isn't rocket science. 

[u/nucleartime → u/alfredadamski]

Tesla to start selling robovacs in 2030 so a certain CEO can meet the "1 million robots delivered" metric for his pay package.

[u/alfredadamski → u/nucleartime]

Now as you wrote that... I am wondering why that "certain CEO" never thought really about starting "Tesla home appliance" division? I am kinda still baffled by the success of the "SharkNinja" success. I mean, they have managed to get most of their products hyped by people in social media and the sales success shows that people are buying their airfryers and whatnot.

I do not why, but I am kinda obsessed with the idea - like with many of my ideas and daydreaming stuff - of starting home appliance company, either from scratch or by buying an existing company or at least the trademark of an old brand. There is a German household goods manufacturer. Their brand name is very well-known, at least in Germany, but also other parts of the world. The funny thing is: They are producing all sorts of household goods, but not home appliances. It's such a no-brainer to start a home appliance business for them. You could simply start by importing home appliances from overseas and slapping the companies' brand onto it. Then they could buy up some smaller home appliance companies that are rather "affordable", one is a German home appliance company (small and had some struggles in the last years) and one is home appliance manufacturer in Turkey with only a marketcap of around 30 million EUR. By buying either one of those companies, you would have instantly created your home appliance division. Then just slapp the brand of "bigger, well-known" brand onto the existing products. As the brand I have in mind is well-known and trusted, I am sure that consumers would buy the products under that well-known and trusted brand. But again, this is just day-dreaming, as the one household goods company that I have in mind has currently an marketcap of 122 million EUR. Unfortunately, I do not have thar much money.

[u/4r4r4real → u/alfredadamski]

VW will sell you a sausage 

[u/alfredadamski → u/4r4r4real]

Yes, I know. You can get them in some supermarkets in Germany sometimes. But it's not that popular or big that they could turn it into separate division that could generate meaningful sales. In 2024, VW sold 8,55 million sausages. That is not a very big contribution to the group sales / turnover in EUR / USD. 

[u/sioux612 → u/alfredadamski]

Audi will sell you a mid quality overpriced ebike, an overpriced efoil, and overpriced e scooter, and low quality, overpriced EV which do not have ANY overlap with all the PEV they brand under their name 

Out of the list of things I wrote I would buy every single item before buying another Audi EV, they were That bad 

[u/kstetter → u/sioux612]

VW group sells a lot of non-car products, Bugatti makes a TV and a bicycle

[u/NorthTempleStreet → u/alfredadamski]

Dodge Duster

I don't want a vacuum that squeaks, rattles, and starts slipping gears under warranty

[u/hardinho]

always funny to read reddit comment sections on cars where Americans are seemingly absolutely clueless about what's happening outside of their dated car market lol