Depends on where you are. I just got back as well. There are more EVs on the road now, but most are still ICE cars. I probably took 30 taxi rides and only one was an EV. This was in a city of a million in the northeast, just a normal city, not a tourist destination. I didn’t see another westerner the whole month I was there.
@@Western_Decline I actually did visit my ancestral village recently in the heart of quite poverty stricken Shanxi province, and the local village taxi that took me back to the train station was a shiny new BYD Qin EV!
This price point is basically impossible for American car makers to match because they can't vertically integrate. There's almost no lithium battery manufactures in the US.
I just wanna know which corners were cut to make it that cheap. I don't care if they left out some protecting layers on the battery, if they used cheap materials for the frame or how many Chinese children's hands were involced to build this ☠ trap on wheels. I just wanna know how they made it that cheap.
@@close_all_tabs I think it's because these companies are being heavily subsidized by the Chinese government. Some companies such as BYD also control the entire supply chain as they own lithium mines and processing facilities, allowing them to acquire the materials at a lower cost. There's also the lower labour costs and all that jazz as well. In all fairness to the companies, the quality of their EVs seem to be higher than that of American and European car manufactures.
Of course not. It will literally obliterate GM and other foreign auto manufacturers. It will also de-salarize the commission of salespeople if they sold new cars at a low price.
By the end of 2023, China's installed capacity for renewable energy generation accounted for approximately 40% of the global total. Over the past decade, China's annual additions to installed capacity consistently made up over 40% of the global share, surpassing half in 2023.
Please don't try to turn off a EV battery fire by yourself. If it starts to burn, there is only one thing you can do - RUN ! It will most likely not explode, but the lithium fire can't be extinguished with water, foam or powder. Just let it burn down and bring your but in safty and don't breath in the smoke.
Wish we let Chinese brands dominate the ICE, Imagine the features and price they could have given us. Other countries shouldn't impose taxes on EVs at least and let companies like these thrive well, so they can keep the market competitively priced.
That would put U.S. own brands out of business because they can't compete against subsidized Chinese brands. When something is incredibly cheap, it begs the question of whether it's actually that cheap to make or if it was cheap for a reason. In this case, it's the latter. China supports these companies to push their EVs globally, the same EVs that their own citizens didn't want to buy and that filled up lots of land. This is the same as Temu, where they cheat the system on lower shipping costs for "low-income" countries, which China clearly isn't. However, they were able to do that to compete with online shopping in the U.S. As for your hope that this would make prices more competitive here with more features, that won't happen. If U.S. companies fail due to unreasonable pricing from the competition, that will take a toll on the economy, if they want to make the products cheaper, it will cut corners, kinda like cheap Hyundai cars that kept having serious issues on the news.
Cars, no matter type of engine need to have E-Call as a feature since 2016 or so meaning, all newer cars are online at all times. If you fear surveillance or your car being remotely stopped, get an older car. Also if electricity grid goes down, pumps at gas stations don't work anymore. At least with electric car, you can charge at home if you happen to have a small solar power setup.
If everyone are buying new cars at the price of what second cars should be, no one will buy second hand cars anyone. It means that all reusable second hand cars will go straight to the land field. Not eco-friendly at all.
That is not true. People will buy second hand cars at an even lower price than beforehand. Albeit, EV’s don’t last to long, but despite this their will still be a second hand market.
How much will a replacement battery cost in the event of a problem with it charging, like the batteries that are currently on the market and causing issues for the consumers?
Lol Polestar is very generous, they let other company literally copy paste the front headlight design from their polestar 4 😂 even if they are all chinese cars, even if they are from the same company, copying like that is just unethical
this really depends on the tariffs and dealer profit. Manurfacture will charge the dealers only slightly higher then they do in China due to fierce competition。and transport will cost 1500usd.
I want to see how these cars perform in 5-10 years. The average age of a car in the United States is 12 years. If the Chinese EVs are ever allowed there, Americans won’t buy them if they won’t last. Remember the Yugo?
In 2023, China exported a total of 44,400 electric vehicles to Canada. Among them, the number of Tesla electric vehicles was 44,000. Above all, in 2023, only 400 domestically produced electric vehicles were exported from China to Canada. The proportion of this only accounts for 0.03% of China's total export volume of 1.203 million electric vehicles. I speculate that the Canadian government, which serves the U.S. government, will not mete out the same punishment to Musk.
In 2023, China exported a total of 44,400 electric vehicles to Canada. Among them, the number of Tesla electric vehicles was 44,000. Above all, in 2023, only 400 domestically produced electric vehicles were exported from China to Canada. The proportion of this only accounts for 0.03% of China's total export volume of 1.203 million electric vehicles. I speculate that the Canadian government, which serves the U.S. government, will not mete out the same punishment to Musk.
The time it’s taking for some of China’s electric-car makers to pay suppliers is ballooning - a further sign of stress in the nation’s increasingly cutthroat auto market
Can't even imagine how many corners were cut to make Chinese EVs. There's a new story every single day on Chinese news reporting an EV catching fire, so dangerous. Praying for the poor Chinese.
you won't catch me in one of these with China's quality control and regulations. its a 17000$ deathwish, a fiery deathwish. i wait for all china bros to tell me otherwise, so funny.
Oh yes.... Even every appearance was copied from someone else by his/her parents. Go to the zoo and you should be able to recognize your lookalike when you see one. Hopefully your parents did not forget to copy the brain too.
Only BYD and LI Auto make profits.. Xpeng, Nio, Evergrande, Xiaomi etc are consistently lossmaking and burning money year by year and yet EV sales in China make up a huge 50% of sale so the Chinese market isn't right.The uptake in the of EVs in the west has already plateaued and been propped up by fleet sales. I prefer hybrid like myself generally non-Chinese brands, preferably Japanese or French. BYD and MG are starting to churn out hybrids. So much for the EV hype. The numbers don't lie....many Chinese EV companies are going to follow Chinese property companies into bankruptcy like Shimao, Evergrande, Country Garden......
I'd rather spend more on Japanese and Korean cars in the name of quality and safety. You only have one live. Chinese lives are cheap hence the cheap and underage forced labors. But not my family and I.
yep keep drinking haterade heh? I guess it's better to live in a country like the US where there is a shortage of 20 million homes to drive price up for builders.
"PHEVs sold in China in the first seven months of 2024 were up 70% from last year. BYD, China's and the world's biggest EV maker, reported in the same period increases of 13% and 44% in its global BEV and PHEV sales, respectively". That's their future. LOL.
EV's are an oxymoron. I'd like to see someone still be the original owner of the first Model S lol. The fact people lease EV's shows it has no environmental merit. "use and toss".
