Very small and very cheap is what the world needs. Even Americans would benefit from such a vehicle which could be easily charged from a $15K home solar system (PV with storage) and would function very well around town. Imagine not having an electricity bill for home or daily transportation. Small is the way forward….
Continue covering China Viking, China is where all EV innovations are and one of the main reasons why we subscribe! The mainstream media are not allowed to say anything positive about anything related to China... Crazy world
What is happening inside China and their innovation and science going on right now is being completely ignored by the US media and it seems 99% of people I talk to have no idea how far ahead China is getting in solar, battery and EV technology. America is getting blindsided or soon will be when the avalanche of Chinese technology breaks open worldwide and American technology sales plummet to customers worldwide. …And then there goes the US economy down the toilet. America can throw up all the trade barriers it wants. It’s not going to stop China from taking America’s customers.
That's nonsense. There is no mechanism in government, society or elsewhere that suppresses such content. The "Best in Tesla" channel, for instance, covers Chinese vehicles regularly.
@@billdale1 The MSM (main stream media) has been govt. controlled for at least a century. It was called "Yellow journalism" when the big papers censored/lied early 1900s.
My son just came back from Shanghai. He said about 40% of the cars were electric and almost all the scooters were. The locals were saying how much less than pollution was. I suppose if we looked at photos or videos of the same city 25 years ago there would have been more bicycles. These relatively affordable cars are helping change the air quality and make safer transportation more accessible.
We bought our first EV today. A Citroën dealer in the Netherlands had the first one in the showroom, so we had a look at it . . . and were instantly sold. It had a lot of design elements of the Citroën OLI. So much better in real than on paper. The Citroën ë-C3 Max, 2-tone color. Delivery in September/October. LFP battery, 320km range, charging at 100kWh, build in the EU. B Segment size
Especially frustrating as Tesla was on a path to that, and Musk keeps steering it away to expensively play with CyberTruck for celebrities, needless performance models, and AI that Musk has yet to prove he understands. We could have solid affordable EVs, and extensive fast and slow charger networks, but Musk is bored with horse carriages that he signed up to oversee. So, it is the Chinese. Eventually they'll take over everywhere, but politics may keep them out for a long while. And they might be badged as GM and VW and Toyota.
I bought a new Honda Civic back in 1978 which was cheap and fun to drive. I live in Canada and I paid $4,200 for the vehicle including taxes and a few options. There were cheaper versions that could be had for $1000 less. I am waiting for the EV infrastructure to be rolled out and for low cost Chinese EVs to become available. I just purchased a new Honda Pilot but I would be very interested in a car such as this as a second car for running around the city when the weather is not too extreme. The Honda is AWD and would be used for long distance and cold weather driving.
I have never paid more for a car than $15,000. It staggers me how people at my work pay $70,000 to $120,000 for a CAR!!! In 15 years all will be worth 10% I will lose $13,500 they will lose between $63,000 and $108,000... I try to talk them out of it pointing out they could buy 4 to 8 of my cars so, they could drive a different colour car each day of the week. Fashion and pride make the global polluters richer and richer. My most fun car trip was in a Fiat Bambino hire car through France 😅👍
"...our free country"??? Americans who vote are politically immature. They want to be ruled, taxed, regulated, and they want freethinkers, anarchists, to suffer with them under the oppression of "law & social chaos".
This is just what north America needs! I'm personally not going to purchase an over engineered EV due to cost of ownership. Insurance alone on an expensive EV is nuts here. Tesla should be looking at this and try to build an EV under $10K in Canada. Three wheels is OK, but it must be simple.
The Little Ant has been in sale for quite a time, in Brazil. It is a very well finished car, for the price. But it is a city car and people in low income countries tend to go to do-it-all cars. That said, a new one is going for about the same price as the BYD Dolphin Mini, so, errr....
EVs ARE CRAZY EXPENSIVE IN CANADA. Many Middle Class CANADIANS would LOVE to drive these affordable Electric Vehicles!!! I hope Canadian Government allow this to happen for many Middle Class CANADIANS someday? 😃💖⚡️🚙⚡️💖💯👍 😉💖🔋🌞🌏✌️
I was fortunate enough to visit China in the mid-1980s when it was still very much like it had been in the 1950s.... dirt roads everywhere, MOST people wearing Mao uniforms in either grey, green or brown, and people wanted THE SEVEN BIG THINGS: which included a tv, a motor scooter, a refrigerator, a washing machine add two other mundane items ( a radio and a fan?) Look how far China has come today! But it wasn't all Chinese hard work and planning - until recently almost all this phenomenal industrial, financial, technological, scientific, add building prowess was largely financed by American and International Banks - especially GoldamnSachs. These ___ financiers handed the keys to Americas industrial, financial, technological, and yes military industrial might over to the CCP on a silver platter, and have created a Frankenstein monster that is poised to blow all American industry, corporations ( and military & technological prowess) out of the water
Tesla's can build a self driving EV car with 100kwh battery and a 10kWh home battery. So, a Selfplug-in EV is a baby step. Trickle currents all day long. 23hrs every day. The EV can be ready for the next drive with full battery or rapid charge for the long drive or bring a full 100kwh home in an emergency. Petrol pumps do not pump with out electricity. The stupids will never see. Even when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. 😊😊😊😊😊
In EU ebike cost $4000 because of 100% tax on Chinese e bikes, to save German BOSCH which makes ebikes for EU. This $4000 car in EU will cost 14000 EUR, while average Europeans don't have 100 EUR in their home.
These tiny cars are perfect for the Japanese market where they are referred to as the K car. Priced below the Japanese K cars, these Chinese small EV will dominate the Japanese K car market and finally persuade Toyota to build EVs.
Stick the wheel on the correct (right) side and the civilised world will buy it, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Japan (!) Great Britain, the list is endless and we are crying out for tiny cars for our tiny roads, especially as a second car or for the kids, far safer than a motorbike or scooter in the slashing rain at midnight
You must be unaware of how much your credibility is diminished by not reporting on the quality and reliability of any car you cover. We can prioritize what we feel is relatively important but not when your reporting consistently neglects major categories of facts. Price is only one consideration
We have to be careful not to confuse real automobiles with golf carts... they keep lowering the standards from real cars which peaked in terms of performance I would say in the late 60s... to what we have today... the standards are still dropping...
Someone will want to fix it, I’m still running a 13 year old laptop, Sony Vaio, replaced all sorts of bits to keep it going ditto my son’s old 15 year old car, lot easier to swap out a motor than a complete petrol or diesel engine
