BottomBounce
1 month ago
$KNDI Kandi Technologies (KNDI) — Full Product & Service Portfolio
Electric Vehicles
Kandi builds several categories of electric transportation, mostly compact and utility-focused.
Urban Electric Cars — small, affordable EVs designed for city driving
Neighborhood Electric Vehicles — low-speed EVs for campuses, gated communities, and short-range mobility
Electric Utility Vehicles — compact commercial EVs used for delivery, maintenance, and municipal tasks
Off-Road & Recreational Vehicles
This is one of Kandi’s strongest business segments, especially in the U.S.
Utility Terrain Vehicles (UTVs) — electric and gas models for work, farms, and recreation
All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) — recreational and light-duty industrial ATVs
Go-Karts — including performance-oriented electric models like the Cyber and Dart series
Golf Carts — electric carts, including U.S.-assembled units
Electric Scooters & E-Bikes — lightweight personal electric mobility options
Battery & Charging Technology
Kandi is deeply involved in EV energy systems, including partnerships with major battery companies.
Lithium Battery Packs — battery systems for EVs and off-road vehicles
Battery Swap Stations — automated swap equipment for passenger EVs and heavy trucks
Battery Exchange Modules — quick-change battery hardware for fleet operations
Charging Equipment — EV charging components and infrastructure solutions
Intelligent Robotics
A newer but growing part of Kandi’s business.
Industrial Robots — automation systems for manufacturing and assembly
Smart Equipment — robotics-based production tools and automated machinery
EV Components & Power Systems
Kandi manufactures many of the parts used in its own vehicles and supplies components to other manufacturers.
Electric Motors — propulsion systems for EVs and off-road vehicles
Battery Modules — lithium-based energy units
Chassis & Frames — structural vehicle platforms
Powertrain Components — drivetrain and control system parts
Parts, Accessories & Support Services
Kandi supports its vehicles with a full aftermarket ecosystem.
Replacement Parts — components for EVs, ATVs, UTVs, scooters, and go-karts
Maintenance & Repair — service programs for customers and dealers
Warranty & Customer Support — after-sales assistance and technical help
U.S. Operations (Kandi America)
Kandi’s American division focuses on off-road and recreational EVs.
Electric UTVs
Electric Golf Carts
Electric Go-Karts
E-Bikes & Scooters
U.S. assembly operations in Texas for select models $BOTZ $KNDI
BottomBounce
3 months ago
🚀 Why KNDI’s robots could take off in the U.S.
1. A North American–focused joint venture built for scale
Kandi Technologies and HawkRobo have formed KH Robotics, a joint venture specifically designed to commercialize autonomous quadruped security robots in North America. Kandi holds a controlling 70% stake, giving it strategic control over manufacturing and deployment.
This isn’t a vague partnership — it’s a full-stack commercialization plan with U.S. market entry baked in.
2. Leadership with deep U.S. security market experience
KH Robotics appointed Oliver Zhang, a former Hikvision North America executive, as CEO. His background gives the venture immediate credibility and access to established security-industry networks.
This is a big deal: breaking into U.S. security infrastructure requires relationships, certifications, and trust.
3. A clear first deployment target: logistics parks
The JV plans to deploy its first wave of robots in logistics parks, where demand for autonomous surveillance is surging due to labor shortages, rising theft, and 24/7 monitoring needs. The robots will feature:
autonomous patrol
multimodal environmental perception
anomaly detection
audio-visual warning systems
integration with existing security systems
This is a high-value niche with immediate ROI for customers.
4. U.S. manufacturing and distribution advantages
Kandi already has North American manufacturing capabilities and distribution channels through its off-road vehicle and equipment businesses. That means:
faster deployment
lower logistics costs
easier regulatory compliance
local support and servicing
Most robotics startups lack this infrastructure — Kandi doesn’t.
5. Strong robotics and AI tech from partners
HawkRobo contributes advanced AI algorithms and robotics hardware, acting as the “brain” of the platform. This gives KH Robotics a technological edge in a market where many competitors are still in prototype stages.
📈 Why this could “explode” from a market perspective
Security robotics is one of the fastest-growing automation sectors, driven by labor shortages and rising security costs.
KNDI stock has already shown volatility spikes tied to robotics news, including a recent 11.7% jump on JV announcements.
The company is positioning itself as a first mover in a niche that could scale rapidly once pilot programs prove cost savings.
If KH Robotics successfully executes its 2026 rollout, KNDI could become one of the earliest companies with mass-produced, commercially deployed quadruped security robots in the U.S.
🎯 Bottom line
KNDI’s robotics arm has the ingredients for a breakout U.S. expansion:
manufacturing scale
AI-driven robotics tech
experienced leadership
clear deployment strategy
a rapidly growing market with real demand
It’s not hype — it’s a calculated push into a sector that’s about to get very big, very fast. $KNDI $BOTZ $ROBO $ARKQ $IRBO $ROBT
BottomBounce
3 months ago
AI Is Old: Why Today’s “Revolution” Is Really a Reinvention
Artificial intelligence feels like the newest, hottest breakthrough of the decade — but the truth is far less glamorous. AI is not a newborn technology; it’s a 70-year-old field that has been rediscovered, renamed, repackaged, and repeatedly hyped every generation. What we call “AI” today stands on a long lineage of ideas, algorithms, and ambitions that date back to the early days of computing.
The 1950s: When AI Was Already a Big Deal
The modern AI story began in the 1950s, when researchers like Alan Turing, John McCarthy, and Marvin Minsky were already asking the same questions we ask today:
Can machines think
Can they learn
Can they understand language
Can they solve problems like humans
The famous Turing Test was proposed in 1950. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956. Neural networks were invented in 1957. Machine learning as a concept was already alive.
In other words, the “new” AI boom is built on ideas older than most of the people using ChatGPT.
AI Has Gone Through Booms and Busts Before
Today’s excitement mirrors earlier waves of optimism. In the 1960s, researchers promised human-level reasoning within a generation. In the 1980s, “expert systems” were marketed as the future of business. In the 1990s, neural networks made a comeback. Each time, the hype surged, funding poured in, expectations soared — and then reality hit.
We’ve been here before.
Machine Learning Isn’t New Either
The core techniques behind modern AI — classification, regression, clustering, reinforcement learning — have existed for decades. Even the architecture behind today’s large language models, the transformer, is nearly a decade old. What changed wasn’t the idea, but the scale:
more data
more compute
more storage
more efficient hardware
The algorithms didn’t suddenly appear; they finally had the fuel they always needed.
AI Has Been Quietly Running the World for Years
Long before the public noticed, AI was already embedded in everyday life:
spam filters
credit scoring
recommendation engines
fraud detection
search ranking
speech recognition
medical imaging
None of this was considered “revolutionary” at the time — but it was AI doing real work.
Why AI Feels New Even Though It Isn’t
AI seems new because the interface changed. Instead of hidden algorithms, we now have conversational systems that feel human. The technology didn’t suddenly appear; it simply became visible.
It’s the difference between electricity in a power plant and electricity in a smartphone — same phenomenon, new experience.
The Real Revolution Isn’t AI — It’s Accessibility
For the first time, AI is:
easy to use
widely available
integrated into daily tools
capable of generating text, images, and code instantly
The underlying science is old, but the reach is new. That’s why it feels like a breakthrough.
AI’s Future Depends on Remembering Its Past
Understanding that AI is old helps us stay grounded. It reminds us that:
hype cycles come and go
predictions often overshoot reality
progress is incremental, not magical
today’s excitement is part of a long continuum
AI isn’t a sudden miracle. It’s a slow, steady evolution that has finally reached the public stage. $BOTZ
x1power
8 years ago
Currently, new tech hires are increasingly impossible w/o re-training old workers and companies cannot fill the urgent tech unemployment crunch. Thus, employers all over the higher-level economies are turning to robots
to fill the work requirement void and also increase productivity and profit.
This bodes well for BOTZ and is a definite reason to hold on to your shares. Even farming, transportation and construction are fields that
robotics and AI are moving into. The law professional is tech-ing up also, as basic case development work is moving into AI SW preparation.
IF (my opinion) BOTZ ETF price does generally follow the overall daily
stock market directional move, we will just have to relax and take what
comes our way? Why not build up some cash and buy more when the ETF
moves lower in price?
About the only negative for BOTZ ETF pricing might be the issue of government declaring a VAT added tax on robots. We cannot keep cutting
human jobs and expect consumer spending to go up, thus it does seem this will be solved by some means.
Another big potential effector on BOTZ price direction would be a major event interruption of a robotic production plant or power/transportation grid via hacking. To date, those hackings have generally launched only against retail and media and other consumer records. This 'other-level' hacking would by viewed as an act of open option to active start of hard cyber warfare climate.
Just considering the settling in on the tax-credit 2018 effect of corporate policy, BOTZ ETF should achieve some upward price movement, as net new production plant capacity comes on line.
The new defense spending increase, should also do the same, as robotized warfare organization development units ensues;
x1power
8 years ago
To me, BOTZ is generally going in the direction the overall market takes.
That said, either trade wars or hot wars or tech wars are going to stop the holdings of BOTZ from increasing in value. USA and other countries are going to need AI, The cloud, IOT, and robots to be able to overcome
the depletion of all kinds of resources by achieving the means to increase value and substance.
We might see (briefly) the fall of our stock market pricing to even below the ETF IPO. However; every company and line-of-business is going to need all the avenues of productivity increase we have in our ETF.
I am accumulating cash and waiting . . . and I probably will get BOTZ at a lower price. Doubtfully, I am not alone in that thought?
I will be patience and await the coming necessity to balance production and the means of purchasing power of the consumer, and both realms of economy BOTZ will influence.
x1power
8 years ago
My non-analyst take on what's happening.
BOTZ dropped more than NAZ and DOW Friday, percentage wise.
The rich, the low-end $s investor, the Quants all are into BOTZ.
Maybe this ETF is being used to counter-trade against the companies
we hold. This idea might make some sense as another way to do counter-cover investing for the big folk? BOTZ, then, can be useful as a
form of options-like investment vehicle, while still working the individual holdings companies thru regular options plays? Anyone?
The steady-eddy, small time investor (me) just holds on and ignores the major price swings in the ETF and adds more if the major players are nice enough to drop the price on the future (tech wars).
The administration is going to have to invest in domestic high tech AND
computerized forms of education (STEM) + robotics. The USA cannot gleen
tech personnel from south-of-the-border or Asian Partners W/O draining away their competitive needs for same domestically. What to do, then?
Create domestic USA jobs program (pay-to-text), targeted domestic factories full of robotics, etc. My . . . that sounds like BOTZ holdings are in that game. We also might just get smarter and pay students to go into STEM classes and give them automatic high-pay jobs
programs as part of their schooling credits? Oh . . . Student Loan Debt pays for itself . . . . I am not planning expert, but seems to make sense. And, the Bill height is not one foot of pages.
Tune in for some good BUY position set-ups next couple of weeks?
I will be.
x1power
8 years ago
The governmental funding budget deadline approaches, and current administration looks like it will have to agree to more of a electronic
enhancement and staffing increase type of border wall. <---what's that mean for BOTZ? To economize AI and remote mobile units will be used to
observe border movements and our portfolio holdings involve that kind of stuff.
Both sides of the congress and administration will get trade-offs in the deal and us investors get to sit back and win, either way it goes?
Gaming will move into Block Chain transaction confirmation, as one of its best forms of enhancing online security.
And, I might say that I have a feeling on-chip ROM sectors will be coming into use to further guard many robotics and AI and Cloud and IOTs uses from hacking. So what? BOTZ may still be the best way to play 'Whose On First' in Anti-Hacking SW competition, as again the ETF adjusts its portfolio to get us into the best germane tech solutions.
Face Book's content woes and Uber's traffic accident . . . even the Florida over-Pass should have had Al built into it . . . to help give a heads-up to faulty construction and new operational conditions parameters. Today, BOTZ dropped with the general market direction but note that Face Book dropped much % lower than the market percentage.
I will hold and buy more BOTZ . . . that's my guess on how to play a
market and specific stock down-turn.
x1power
8 years ago
BOTZ is small and beginning investor way to play AI, Robotics. and clouding of IOTs data usage. The holdings of this ETF will be changed, as time passes on. Not too be worried, as this means you and I do not have to spend time trying to judge who and what will be the present and future winners of this coming dominant tech sector.
let us propose that for how to invest successfully in the future (regardless of what up or down value position the overall stock market value moves to), one makes the decision to hold BOTZ Long Term. That may be the very best we can do to gain portfolio value, as this ETF does presently have a small yearly dividend pay=out to its holders.
The type of stocks held by BOTZ should be of the same type that will oppose inflationary pressures as interest rates hikes come into effect.
Why? I would estimate there is no other viable method of beating inflationary effects on ones holdings, then the positive evolutionary effects of the inventing of the coming dawn of AI production and sales.
Just a current investors opinions above, you make your own decisions.
Some investment houses and parties are calling for a soon-to-be fall in the general stock market . . . maybe. However; we shall still need to eat, house, transport, medicate, and clothe ourselves and the only sensible way to do that in a growing mass consumer society is with robotics and AI? <---must haves to make that happen.
What about environmentalism and save the planet . . . yes AI and robotics will be very active as the bases of handling such things and say the mining of space bodies. For example, the successful removal and recycling of ocean trash islands would be a natural for robotic fleets.
No matter what sectors of the economy one might chose to invest in (e.g. holdings of the S&P 500), BOTZ holdings will spearhead the evolution of their activity future.
Take health care.
it used to be just manual cut, burn, and mediate.
Start looking around . . . those three medical activities are more and more moving into intelligent electronics.
And guess what we hold the elector-parts progress vectors 'guts' too?
And , right now BOTZ is a much better finer focused investment instrument for value investing in the present becoming the future.
Check out the BOTZ price increase since its IPO verses the S&P 500?
x1power
8 years ago
Isn't strange that stock market really does not figure in computed inflation/deflation equations used to compute inflation?
I always smile too myself when the say FED speaks about inflation target of * 2-3% on balance in the economy. Guess they do not eat or buy consumer goods or need medical care on a fixed budget.
Add another 5-10 Bil inhabitants on the planetary scale and there is to be no apparent effect? The counter to that argument is the evolution of all forms of tech investment and production will be needed to accommodate those coming new world population figures. It will be robots and AI and electronic clouding of info to keep everything under control (and satisfied).
Japan and China both tried to balance their population growth and failed.
Some advanced nations have seen fit to level off their births/population ratios through substituting consumption quality choices verses quantity, and some very poor society have experienced population losses due to starvation, war, etc.
In this sense, BOTZ ETF represents the investment guide to the future stock market valuation component means to solve these problems.
We are all losing $$s herein right now, except maybe the shorts and options traders. I do not do that stuff (just a small time investor) that believes the future (whatever it will be) for earth will entail
electronic forces to make it happen. For 100+ years, the stock market has changed as companies and structural forces imping upon it, force it so. I tend to visualize BOTZ as a future-leveraged investment vehicle that stands the best change to show forth above average returns in that dawning planetary environment many of us expect is coming.
Therefore, I plan to buy more BOTZ as it falls below my initial price buy. And, as an ETF, BOTZ will just rebalance its wins and losses decisions strategy to match what comes about.
x1power
8 years ago
I check back on my searches.
It was on YF, 3 days ago CBNC about 1st and 3rd lead story down after type in BOTZ.
Also, today on MSFT money artl. states all ETFs getting now $4Bil daily
input (mostly from mutual funds).
Morningstar says we are up 11.65% 2018 to date.
Today (so far), seem up trend is continuing.
We are a more credible investment vehicle then Pot stocks or bit-coins.
BOTZ is play on growing demand for future tech trends, and they (BOTZ) do the analysis and stock/company rotation.
That does not mean BOTZ ETF price will not move up or down, as company
news and events affect their holdings. But the general trend is more and more tech in everyone's future? I do think so. As world population seems destine to grow; we are going to have to use tech to grow food, filter water, and do our infrastructure and defense and remote health care. I am comfortable to hold this stock market play.
The wealthy and the smart are coming over to BOTZ?
Follow the $$s trend that GE and F aren't prepared for, and it shows in their stock price. All the above IMO.
x1power
8 years ago
I think it was on news related to BOTZ on YF, several days ago.
A ETF guy was being interviewed by a reporter. They compared BOTZ to the other robotics ETF.
Wish I could be more precise, but what caught my eyes was the notion that
even those they could not discern exactly who was buying BOTZ, it did appear the new customers are younger ones starting to get involved in investing for their future.
That kind of amazed me, as I thought younger crowd was somewhat against stock investing.
Its hard to find decent articles about BOTZ.
I might have also found it on MSFT money, which lists stock quote related news below down the page from the ticker type in price info.
Regardless, its good news for BOTZ holders as folks are starting to see
the future convergence of AI, robotics and The Clouding trend, and want in on it.
Try typing in January 2018 news on BOTZ ETF?
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