A manual transmission.
what I hear is that the chinese ev’s are every bit as good as teslas but they are not as safe. also they are not as profitable. that gap is made up by the chinese government but chinese suppliers to the chinese ev companies can wait a very very long time to get paid.
If not for Government interference electric cars would be a miniscule part of the market. They are heavier than most cars and when they get in a wreck if they catch fire water does not put out that fire. A ship carrying electric cars had to be abandoned when a fire started on board .
Everything out of China is either poisoned or a lie.
China needs useful paid idiots to push the EV.
Nobody wants them
China has a huge fixed cost (very little variable cost) to build EV’s. They need global volume to achieve a reasonable cost per unit.
Parts access? Service network? If those are missing there’s no way anyone should buying. The Chinese penetrate a market with cheap stuff that breaks and there’s no way to fix it.
In China nothing is real.
“From self-driving cars and massive EV factories to battery technology and infrastructure that honestly shocked me, this trip completely changed the way I look at the future of electric cars. I thought I knew what to expect… I was wrong.” That’s what I want a Chinese made self-driving car.
EVs will become practical when you have a bunch of easily replaceable batteries in your car.
You pop into your local EV “gas station” and trade your ten depleted batteries and cash for ten fully charged batteries that can be easily popped into place.
No long waits, all recharging work done by the businesses that provide your fully charged batteries, doing it when you are no longer there.
WHEN DATA CENTERS GET ALL THE POWER & WATER-—IT WILL NOT MATTER WHAT YOU DRIVE.
There is zero reason to import a Chicom manufactured EVs. Those scumbags ramped up manufacturing to dump their trash on the US market banking on Kamala winning. Their plan B was to dump them in Canada to somehow get around the tariffs and restrictions. They are desperate to unload this crap since the myth of their 300 million person middle class never happened.
Maybe this ewwtoober should stay there if he is so concerned about junk from Chy- nah.
Most of the Chinese auto industry is owned by the Chinese government. BYD and Geely are the exceptions.
Likely because almost everything China makes is absolute garbage, especially their military hardware.
-SB
A manual transmission.
I try not to buy anything made in a communist h*llhole that is working to take over the world. I don’t care how good it’s supposed to be (it hardly ever turns out to be)...
Ask the Chinese qbout how durable their domestic cars are. Then you’ll have your answer.
(hint: they’re crap)
CC
They cost less than 1/3 of what my last batteries (I build my own packs) cost (and 1/5 of what replacing them with the same kind would cost now, and have about a 1/3 greater Amp Hour (or watt hour, either way) capacity than the old batteries did when new. I haven't put many miles or stress on them yet, but so far I'm quite pleased with them.
And, I've been running Lead-Acid batteries in my off grid solar system for 15 years, but the basic CATL batteries are cheap enough that the next bank of L-A batteries I replace will likely be CATL LiFes.
I can't imagine buying a Chinese Electric Car for my 'go to town' or 'road trip!' vehicle, but I likely will buy a lot more Chinese batteries.... At least until Musk or someone opens a 'Batteries-R-Us' for American made batteries at competitive prices nearby.