Vinfast Cars in India

In the annals of the automobile, the gatekeepers have always been the same: Germany, Japan, America, and more recently, China. To build a car company from scratch is considered industrial suicide. The last successful American startup was Tesla in 2003. After that came a graveyard of broken dreams—Fisker, Lordstown, Canoo. And then, in 2017, a conglomerate best known for making instant noodles and building theme parks in Vietnam announced it was going to build a world-class car. They called it VinFast. Here is why that is interesting: VinFast is the first global auto company born from a Southeast Asian frontier market. Unlike Tesla (Silicon Valley), Rivian (Midwest grit), or Lucid (Silicon Valley 2.0), VinFast had zero software roots. It had no legacy of parts manufacturing. It had only one thing: ... More