Dreame Launches Nebula NEXT 01 JET Edition at DREAME NEXT: Dual E-engine and Rocket-Powered Intelligent Vehicle with 0.9-Second 0-100 km/h Sprint

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DoGooderMcDoogles@reddit

Isn’t this what the next Tesla Roadster “SpaceX Edition” is supposed to be?

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atomicskiracer@reddit

Yes, the roadster that will be delivered in 2020

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hi_im_bored13@reddit (OP)

It is. Vaporware wars are shaping up well

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Low_Succotash5073@reddit

God. China just keeps eating our lunch. I would love to buy a hilariously overpowered, over-engineered Chinese EV for the price of a US mid-trim crossover.

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mulletstation@reddit

Do people seriously believe the prices in China automatically stay the same when they move into the US?

Like the minimum wage is $300... a month

Think how that changes cost of goods

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Low_Succotash5073@reddit

Is it such a bad thing that I want a better quality product?

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If a Chinese product enters the US without even being impacted by Tariffs, they'll price it where they think it'll sell for maximum profit and still gain an acceptable market share. At no point will they just dump a $100k car into the US at $40k.

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zarif2003@reddit

Imagine if they come to market before Tesla

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sioux612@reddit

Only need to build like 2 of them and let one drive around, maybe give it to some influencer

And suddenly its a vehicle more real than the Tesla

That would be kinda hilarious to see the reaction to on the tesla forums, but I haven't touched those with a ten foot pole since the Tesla Anschluss happened

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hi_im_bored13@reddit (OP)

I know it sounds too good to be true, & it probably is to some extent, but I will say I know a good few folks working there, I'm a huge vacuum nerd, I absolutely love this company. The money/effort/talent they've put in these past few years has been absolutely incredible

Several billions in r&d every year, largest LIDAR orders of anyone, they make some of the best if not the best robot vacuums, have *some* of the most impressive tech in cordless vacuum, they are now developing their own silicon, tons of cracked ex-tsinghua folks, they've in just a few years done a decent-to-impressive job in like every consumer electronics segment

Which like, the car is just standard concept car marketing bits. I highly doubt that entire concept will make it to market. But I am so excited for whatever car from them does, & they're backed by xiaomi as well who have put out very solid EVs themselves

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Thomas_633_Mk2@reddit

I'm a huge vacuum nerd, I absolutely love this company.

MFs who compare cars to white goods are in shambles, it turns out whitegood aficionados are real

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hi_im_bored13@reddit (OP)

There is far more research & development that goes into a vacuum (& especially modern autonomous robot vacuums) than people realize. Not even the motor, just one part of it,

So many ex-aero, ex-f1 etc. fluid engineers working at these firms to optimize the flow path towards that motor, both the mechanical filtration leading up to it as well as everything down to the beater bar that picks the dirt off your carpets

E.x. the Cinetic tips on some old Dysons, near-perfect mechanical cyclonic filtration of particles to the point where it needed zero filter maintenance, or at least attempted to. Or the bin design on the new V16, know the guy who did that up, absolute work of art watching it unclog itself & work out w/o a traditional first-stage cyclone

But when you do get that peak its understandable why these firms would want to try their hand at a car, why Dyson tried a number of years back, its all the same principles, just scaled up a notch. But yes I'm afraid the local Dyson store rep knows me by name now

(& if you do talk to these university students, that younger audience etc, they seem to love EVs in their own way almost out of admiration & respect of the effort that goes into making those cars so versatile rather than purely on raw feel & input, like how we look at f22s at the airshow)

& obviously if you go to top engineering universities in the US & enthusiast forums & whatnot you'll find all the same types. but its not the same scale, from what I saw, as it is there. who knows what they're feeding the kids over in shenzhen

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Thomas_633_Mk2@reddit

Ngl I understand none of this, bar also dearly wanting an Impulse if they ever make a non-battery version. In Australia most homes have their own battery already or will soon, and you can only claim the rebate once, so it's kinda pointless. The cooktop itself is mega cool though

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Thomas_633_Mk2@reddit

For those who don't want to read an entire second article:

As for those rockets, he’s not feeling it. “These influencers,” our man sighed. “’The world’s first production concept car with rockets’ … wut. Nope. I can’t see anything that gives me the fizz. Not even logos on the calipers. These could easily be in the next F&F movie and then become peg warmer Hot Wheels at your local Walmart. Like … why put a carbon fiber surround on a rocket exhaust?” “There are no gaps around the rockets. Everything has been blocked by plastic covers. Feels like horseshit … there are no air inlets, no air outlets, all grilles are decorative and are blocked off, red car has the rockets, and they have carbon fiber cases? No mention of fueling, cool down, etc. It doesn’t look to me like they’re real rockets, just that they’re fab’d to look like rockets … They’re saying they’re functional, but it’s hard to see how that’s possible given the presentation here.”

Also the AI assistant is called Metis, and while they're insufferable in concept as a mythology nerd that's the kind of deep cut that I really like (goddess of wisdom, Athena's mother).

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V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit

Backed by Xiamoi ? If Xiamoi decides to come America market, they would sell their model under their nameplate.

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hi_im_bored13@reddit (OP)

Backed as in seed/a/b funding + dreame codeveloped & cobranded early vacuums for xiaomi

Their recent products (since \~2019) have been largely independent. Xiaomi has something they call the Xiaomi Ecological Chain where they invest in these sorts of startups & in return build out a unified ecosystem for themselves w/ some of their technologies

It is slightly similar to e.x. what Huawei is doing w/ their automotive alliance. Slightly

But it is more akin to say vw<->porsche<->audi than mini<->bmw, from what I understand

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threeinacorner@reddit

China so dominant right now they're even taking over the ridiculous vapourware hypercar market segment, previously ruled by the Tesla Roadster 2, and the exquisite Devel Sixteen.

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Recoil42@reddit

Got to see the Devel Sixteen at an auto show once. Good christ, what an obvious grift that thing is.

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cat_prophecy@reddit

Are they that dominant? Or is it just that the market is new and gets a ton of press?

The only major market that Chinese brands are in the top 10 sales is China.

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Recoil42@reddit

Dreame seems really serious about this one.

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hi_im_bored13@reddit (OP)

Their CEO is absolutely obsessed w/ becoming the Chinese Elon Musk. Goes both ways, I suppose. They're doing silicon & satellites. & top tier Vaporware. At least they're sticking w/ lidar.

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