China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars - Letting them Rot! 

This needs more attention, these are EV's not Gas cars (see below) China keeps telling lies and no one ever calls them out, everyone just goes with it and keeps investing! Thank you for supporting me by watching my videos and thank you to Ekster for sponsoring this video! Grab the most badass wallet in the world, there are incredible Father's Day bundles right now! (massive discount link): shop.ekster.com/serpentza In China, Green plates mean it's EV, regular gas cars have blue plates, and if you think you're seeing gas caps, you're wrong as many Chinese manufacturers use their ICE platforms to make EVs, for those of you who don't understand how Chinese EV Manufacturing works or are skeptical, here's a list of the vehicles shown in this video: ELECTRIC VEHICLES ; ================= 1) 0:02 - EV [Car: NETA V EV] -> bottom left of video, no front grill, looks like they have license plates (i.e. issued to buyers) 2) 0:12 - EV [Car: BYD E3 EV (Build Your Dream written on back)] -> green license plate (also look up a picture on BYD e2 wiki and you'll see BYD e3 pictures, BYD e3 picture shows GAS DOORS like a gas car, but it's an EV) 3) 3:08 - EV (most likely) -> no front grille (EV's don't need air to cool radiator), all license plated 4) 3:32/6:52 (Cao'an Hangzhou) - EV [Car: BJEV EC3 EV / BJEV EC180 EV] -> they also have green license plates 5) 5:19 (Xialaosha Hangzhou) - EV [Car: Kandi K11 Panda] -> has ad showing green related stuff on doors (it also has a gas cap like door on the left side even though it's an EV) 6) 5:34 (Dongjiangzui Hangzhou) - EV [Car: Kandi K11 / Kandi K10] -> has ad showing green related stuff on doors 7) 5:34/8:16 zoom up (Dongjiangzui Hangzhou) - EV [Car: K10C = Kandi K10] -> wiki excerpt of Kandi K10: "The electrical system of the K10 consists of a 20 kWh battery", NOTE: has a gas cap looking door on the right side in the zoom up picture 8) 5:52 (Xinlaosha Hangzhou) - EV [Car: Kandi K10/K11] -> all license plated 9) 6:44 (Cao'an Hangzhou) - EV [Car: BJEV EU5 EV] -> green license plate 10) 6:48 (Cao'an Hangzhou) - EV [Car: BJEV EC 180] -> note: video shows that this EV also has a gas tank door, but it's an EV 11) 6:50 - EV -> front grill not seen (gas car needs air to cool radiator)， sticker on side of door says "electric car", another car in background has green license plate 12) 3:23 - green license plate - green plates given to new technology cars (could be hybrid) GAS CAR ======= 1) 6:17 (Yuhua- cars used for Didi (China's Uber) - these are gas (Net blue)

All those discarded bicycles would bring joy to so many people in poor countries; this is completely crazy.

those literal mountains of bikes was the most insane thing I have seen in a while and then came the cars

This is Absolutely Disgusting to watch, with all these resources EVERY CITIZEN should be supplied with transportation and a roof!

This is one of the most important videos on the internet today. Unbelievable waste, greed and avarice.

China is progressing so rapidly! They went from throwing away new bicycles to throwing away new cars in record time.

If the batteries in one of the cars catch fire, it's going to be a inferno

How is it that China hasn't silenced this man permanently? You live a charmed life

"...the land of shortcuts and facades." So amazingly accurate to anyone who has spent time there. I just came across your channel. Fantastic work! Very informative.

The only thing that surprised me about the abandoned cars is that the local police, in need of quick revenue, didn't send people out to ticket every one of them for illegal parking.

When he says "Left to Rot" he is spot on because Chinese made cars sold in China and India are not Galvanized.

This also happens with food. When there is to much production of e.g. tomatos or cucumbers, they are trashed rather than put on the market to keep the prices up. Also due to subsidising food prices.

The valet here did an excellent work

The mere thought of "investing" in China sends chills down my spine.

They're not "thrown away" this is in fact China's next gen method of using bioengineering to grow 100% plant based organic electric vehicles.

I first saw photos of the bike graveyards on an exhibition in Moscow in 2018. At first, I couldn't believe this is real, I thought it was Photoshop. Then I saw a video and more and more photos on the exhibition and I realised it's true. It broke my heart. It was beyond my understanding. The next day I couldn't throw away my trash without feeling guilty 😭 that's actually how I got interested in ecology, recycling and etc

Remember that huge ass tyre fire that happend a couple years back now imagine throwing a 1000 EVs in there aswell

This needs to be broadcast internationally over and over! On major News Networks not just YT.

It's going to be a nightmare for the people in those areas when one of those cars decides to catch fire.

Every BIG Company does it in the WEST

that pile of millions of bikes makes me cry dude

One note. It's most likely the batteries are LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) as they are the main battery of CATL and BYD, easy to mass produce and don't use the conflict minerals like NCA or other cobalt based chemistry. What's messed up is those batteries (god I hope they were stripped out before being parked) could be repacked into containers and literally power villages upon villages for more than 20 years. That is the main tragedy!

I had a friend (he has since passed away), that was a CEO of an environmental company. The Chinese industries would order pallets of smoke stack scrubbing equipment. He told me after visiting several coal plants that all they do is put the scrubbers out in a nearby field to rot.

Funny how the MSM hasn’t discussed this topic AT ALL!?

Ok, so the companies received funding from the Chinese government and here they have already built thousands of bicycles and thousands of cars, so why didn't they sell them?

I lived in Shanghai in 2016 when the shared bicycle craze took off. As someone who is experienced in manufacturing and inventory control, I could see that this scheme would never work. Without even considering the absurdly low prices, the problem of inventory management and maintenance is massive. At IBM in San Jose, we would lose valuable stuff on our own campus! How much easier to lose bicycles across all of Shanghai or other Chinese cities. Within 5 seconds I could see that this scheme was doomed to failure and waste. Why couldn't the Chinese government see the most obvious thing?

I live in the Netherlands and I honestly thought I'd never see more bicycles at once than in some parking lots. I was so wrong. Wow.

Imagine how many lives were lost mining the lithium just for these vehicles to be thrown away.

What an eye opener. Sad to see the lack of ethics or common wellness for the planet and future generations. Gotta spread this around. Great content!

No matter what happens in China, I will not be surprised, because that is China! You did a really great job, thanks a lot for sharing！👍😄👏

Great channel. Anyone living in the modern world should have this info.

You have the guts to speak the truth , and i can't even imagine the amount of research you might do. Thanks man

Thank you for your continued exposure of how corrupt China truly is! It is #2 heading to the bottom quickly. Their collective approach to business has been shown as a massive failure. Keep up the great work.

In the Uk we had dock yards full of perfectly good older cars (ready to be sent abroad). Scrappage scheme started in 2009, designed to help the motor industry through the recession which followed the financial crash. It essentially gave vehicle owners £2,000 (co-funded by the Government and the car industry) if they scrapped their old vehicle and bought a new one now in 2023 a the deal is ... Scrap a car: £2,000 Scrap a car: £1,600 (plus one adult-rate Annual Bus and Tram Pass) Scrap a car: £1,200 (plus two adult-rate Annual Bus and Tram Passes) Scrap a motorcycle: £1,000 Scrap a motorcycle: £600 (plus one adult-rate Annual Bus and Tram Pass) Scrap a motorcycle: £200 (plus two adult-rate Annual Bus and Tram Passes) Scrap a wheelchair accessible vehicle (car or van): £10,000 Retrofit a wheelchair accessible vehicle (van only): £6,000 I don't think you help with climate change by buying a new vehicle

Some chinese Company brought these bikes to the german streets a couple of years ago. I remember seeing plenty of them over night, no thoughts put into it. What happend is, that the bikes got hijacked, destroyed or just basically weren't being used at all. Not even a year later, they removed all of them and went bankrupt. What a pity

I live in China. I am amazed by the number of new electric car brands that show up in malls. Never heard of their names, but they take some space in expensive malls, and you know that these cars will never ever sell. Thank you for this video, it explains a lot why this is happening.

Great video. I've been to China a half dozen times on extended business trips where I had time to travel and sightsee, and every time I come back and tell my friends and family and co-workers the stories of the insanities that I've seen there, and people hardly believe me. Superhighways with no cars on them. Massive residential building complexes that would dwarf the burroughs of New York - rotting and unfinished and empty. Huge industrial complexes and warehouses - abandoned. The amount of money spent in China on unused and unfinished rotting infrastructure boggles the mind. You have to go there and see it to believe it. The bicycles and electric cars in this video are like a tiny pebble in a landfill compared to the other abandoned infrastructure. And despite what some in the comments are saying about it being privately owned - it's not true! The money shell game in China starts with the CCP, printing renminbi, loaning it out to party aligned "investors" who use the money to attract more investors, build a bunch of shit like this, skim profits along the way, then abandon it all. There's no system there for dealing with it. There's no timely or authoritative bankruptcy court to sell off the assets and recoup money for investors. The cars aren't sitting on land owned by a holding company that owns the land and vehicles, or that leases the land to store them. The assets literally belong to no one. The state is too corrupt and dysfunctional to acquire the assets and sell them off as we would do in the USA. The shell game is like sending crypto to a burn address: print money, loan it, acquire investors, spend the money on infrastructure (while skimming profits), then the infrastructure becomes 0x0000 and rots.

Let's not forget about the fields of ghost towns also.

They made the rows very straight. The different colours of bikes is like an art installation.

I'd say the biggest risk of having that many electric cars abandoned and parked together is that an eventual short circuit will cause a fire and the entire lot of them will burn

absolutely surreal. the discarded bikes and cars also don't show the massive amount of resources, energy and time that went into producing those goods in the first place. the true environmental cost to create and then discard is staggering. it's beyond infuriating. it's really really sad.

I told people years ago that EV Lithium batteries are only good for power tools and vibrators AND THATS IT

This is reminiscent, to me, of the acres and acres of used wind turbine blades in Iowa. Their useful lifetime is over. They've been replaced by new blades. But landfills won't take them. And they are not recyclable. The part of the "green" energy paradigm that most choose to ignore.

Sucks to see so many vehicles go to waste away

Having worked in public schools in the USA for over ten years, I beg to differ to claiming that China is the 'Land of Short Cuts and Facades'.

I wish i could get 2 Cars from this Graveyard ! I am sure China will not Charge me for picking up some Discarded Trash ! This would be the happiest day of my life being an owner of 2 Cars ! For me ... These cars are more than enough ! 😍😍😍🥰

Imagine the fire that could break out if just one battery degrades and cooks off.

As a mining engineering student this really hurts me, I know how environment suffers for the Li-Ion-Batteries and they just let them rot

I love your honesty.

This has been found to be inaccurate, The cars are there, yes, but many are from a failed “car share” industry that they tried in China, similar to those e-bikes you see abandoned all over college campuses and cities. The company went BK. There’s alot of other videos on this.

Those e-bikes could be jumpstarting whole economies, in struggling nations.

You do a super important job by bringing these frauds to light

Mr. serpentza: I read different stories about the EVs from China in serious German publications. China brought in German car designers and engineers to build the latest model and actually built a better car than Tesla. Tesla even buys some batteries from China. China will not come to the US market for now. As to the bycicles and motorbikes, they get them and put them in the large shipping containers and sell the container “as is”. Typically the majority (>50%) is like brand new, of the rest some need minor work or are used for spare parts. I know this for fact because my brother in law imported many containers of motorbikes into Venezuela and made an absolute financial killing by importing many containers with motorbikes. Would love to hear your and other people’s opinions. Thank you very much.

If you don’t think Chinese are trying to cheat you, you have never bought a Chinese product and then tried to use it or assemble it. From the forks at dollar general that snap in your mouth, to the c-clamps at harbor freight tools that snap under weak loads, to replacement headlights that fog up from weak weather seals. List goes on and on.

This happens across the world. Our local council bought dozens of electric vehicles solely because of tax incentives, when those incentives are no longer in place they will go back to the ( more reliable and convenient) diesel vehicles. It's always about the money, it's been about money from the beginning, not 'saving the planet'.

China's record EV sales also comprised huge numbers of inexpensive tiny low speed vehicles. Some cities have now banned this type of slow and unsafe car.

So I just looked into this, and apparently these aren’t new discarded cars at all. This is a STORAGE LOT for a ride share company. Most of these Cars are actually older cars (between five and ten years old) and they were once used for ride sharing. The cars have signs of obvious wear and tear, including trash inside. Some of the cars are even totaled. Why lie about this?

That's wild, those mountains of bikes.

Imagine an American car company trying to pull something like this, at this scale. This would literally even sink Tesla tomorrow.

This is exactly what happens when you eliminate personal ownership and responsibility for assets.

How to wreck car production in the UK:- 1. Compel companies to make cars no-one wants to buy. 2. Then fine the same companies £15,000 for each petrol or diesel car they sell if they don't sell enough EVs. Unbelievable. These idiots need removing from office. And if you think the Tories are bad on car policy - the Labour Party is actually worse, if that is possible.

Thats wildy depressing that we can't hold businesses or other countries accountable for major waste

If people even try to tel me (as someone who sorts my trash, recycling since I was a child) that I’m not doing enough for the environment, I will show them this video and ask them how much more do I have to do living a modest and respectful life to offset a country that does this? The fact of the matter is, we can’t. It’s going to go to a place of no return because we aren’t holding them responsible. Add on all the unsustainable mining for their cheap “crystals” that sell on tiktok, bikes left in mountains, and pollution emissions from their factories… it’s going to get to a point of no return before we know it.

We have a lot of folks that need cars here in the USA. Why can't China just give them to us?

This same thing happened in France, maybe not at this scale but there were alot of them.

Not sure it if was intentional, but 'smog screen' is a really good new term.

As a combustion engine connoisseur just the few fist scenes in this video makes me extremely sad, thank you for getting this word out.

So this is what saving the planet looks like.

The companies failed financially due to lack of regulation in the market. What do you expect would happen to their inventory?

Incredible video. Thanks.

Some of the cars in that field of Kandis (the ones with the shield logo) are quite old. The k10c is based off of the smart car knockoff made by the Huoyon Electrombile Corp, which started production around 2006-2008. They were built using chasis made for kids toys not able to go over 10mph and used fiberglass bodies built by scaling up an imported model of a first generation smart car. Basically, if you got in any kind of accident you were screwed. They actually sold some here under the Kandi, Flybo, and Wildfire brands, but thank God they were speed limited to 25mph. Because of their age and cheap production they used lead acid batteries, which while more recyclable and less combustible than Li-ion, which is used in New EVs, it is my understanding that lead acid is more detrimental to the environment if not dealt with properly. Also, you recall how I said they sold some here? That ultimately never panned out because the cars were total crap, and now there are some lots here in America full of abandoned Chinese EVs.

“China is the land of shortcuts and facades.” - well said!

…and here i am drinking with paper straws to save the workday. 😂

Thanks so much for the video and info

When I used to work for the cell phone companies. There wouldn’t often be days when we didn’t hit our sales targets. What managers would do, is ring out gophones and or just ring out SIM cards and sell it as a prepaid line. This way when we sent the numbers out at night we would at least have something to show for it. I’ve also seen and witnessed other forms of fraudulent sales practices, like making up names and flat out adding lines to peoples accounts without their consent. This toxic and dishonest culture is still very prevalent in that industry. There’s tons and tons of sales fraud that goes on likely til this day. All in the name of hitting unreasonably high sales numbers that help the upper management sleep at night knowing they did their job at pretending their company is better than it is and so that investors keep buying more shares. So many issues in these times are traced back to greed Seems to me that China today is the very embodiment of that example

I hope those cars have had the batteries removed. The toxic release from hundreds of deteriorating batteries would be devastating for the water in that area.

Good to see EV's saving the environment once again! 🤣

Now they will Refurbish these Vehicles and send to other markets.

It looks like these Chinese electric vehicles are outstanding in their field!

Reminds me of the flood BMW’s here in Vancouver. About a hundred models from Mini Coopers to M5’s and Alpina B6’s were left untouched in an auction yard for about 4 years. They were embroiled in a lawsuit after taking flood damage from Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast. Neither BMW Canada or the owner of the storage facility was willing to accept fault. So sad to see such desirable brand new vehicles sitting in the dirt, tires flat and factory fresh paint getting eaten away by years of dust and grime 😢

If you falloff your dirt bike into a ditch your wallet is the least of your problems.😂

As a petroleum engineer and geologist, I am happy to see the US still loving gasoline cars, and so do I. BUT, Gasoline sale in China for the first time shrink. Even if the car market might be over-heated, but fuel market would not lie. And I heard the head of Petro-China reported a petroleum usage peak this year. And many people talking about turning fuel companies into petro-chemistry company. Sadly, electricity replacing fossil fuel, this trend is chill and clear, at least in China.

About making the batteries, I read Siddhartha Kara's book about the mining of cobalt in the Congo. I started reading the book thinking that it was mostly american companies/Tesla doing the horrific work there using african slaves but most of the mines are owned by China. Crazy how they get away with these things.

The people that don't know what's going on in this world are much happier people.

This is the kind of hazard the environmentalists should be focusing on. What needs to be done is salvage and re-cycle all the materials and use them for making new cars that are not bad instead. Such a waste of nice materials and such bad treatment of mother nature to leave it all out there to rot.

What I don't understand is why don't they strip them? Recycle them back into materials? They could easily do it just like we do.

I love how companies throw away cars and stuff when there's people literally dying of hunger and can't afford rent. This is amazing.

I'm so glad you're still on RU-vid and producing better and better videos every time you upload. I think you're extraordinary. You just never seem to run out of fuel and your standards remain high, it's incredible. Most people doing similar work as you have entire teams and large production budgets behind them but you're a one-man band. That alone deserve recognition. Brilliant work Winston, as always.

In Romania the public transportation buses are BYO very quiet and unbelievably comfortable EV’s , I was informed by the local government that EU banned the imports of those buses , Why ? Because their prices are very low and not competitive.

This video must be shared on and on again!

I'm still ticked off about the skyscraper living areas. When they started building them it made concrete prices skyrocket because they were using up a great deal of raw materials world wide. It was a hard time for the construction industry.

The CCCP's continued existence is a net negative for the human race and the environment as a whole

Bs there isn't 10k cars there and nearly all have been used or from a bankrupt company.

Coming to the US soon as people run away from their EVs in droves.

As someone that used to work for GM and Nissan, we do the same thing in the US. China unfortunately, isn't doing anything abnormal to other nations. Only difference is that in America, they don't have to register them to say they sold them. They do it in America for stockholder reasons.

This is so sad and tragic. Look how many people could benefit from these bikes and cars. Thanks for your wonderful reporting work

One thing regarding environmental harmful electric cars: everything we'll do is inevitably somewhat invasive regarding the environment. And while I don't want to downplay issues with lithium mining, we really shouldn't forget the countless oil accidents we have year by year. At the end, with a whole lithium recycling circulation, electric cars are the less harmful option.

So……what is that a problem? Throw away cars 🚗, and throw away homes 🏠 they are competing to see who can throw away the most. Seriously 😳

You should check out the garbage dump in India where all the surplus goods get sent. There are mountains and mountains of returned Amazon items, mountains of clothes that don't sell, mountains of everything. It is completely astonishing and surreal. It really shows that poverty in the form of lack of clothes, appliances, things you need to live in the modern world, is completely manufactured (pun intended). Poverty is simply about controlling the masses.

I would not be surprised if those "cars" actually have no batteries or other crucial parts, needed for them to be drivable. Much like those whole neighborhoods with huge condominiums that were never intended to be lived in, so they lacked piping, electric cables, heating, etc. They were intended and build as "an investment assets".