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Auto Expert Debunks Viral Conspiracy Theory About Chinese-Made Cars: ‘It’s Not Pleasant’
Yahoo! News ^ | Sun, September 10, 2023 | Jeremiah Budin

Posted on 09/11/2023 12:37:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A recent YouTube video featured drone footage of a large number of electric vehicles sitting in a field in China. It alleged that Chinese automakers are manufacturing cars, falsifying sales records, and abandoning them in order to receive government subsidies.

However, a Shanghai-based automotive industry veteran has looked into those claims and was able to debunk them as false.

Shanghai-based Mark Rainford, who runs his own YouTube channel called Inside China Auto, visited the “EV graveyard” in person. He captured his own footage of the cars that YouTuber Winston Sterzel claimed, based on old images captured by drone, were 10,000 brand new Neta Vs (a Chinese-made electric vehicle). In actuality, he found that the cars were not new, and only 146 of them were Neta Vs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; markrainford; shanghai
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1 posted on 09/11/2023 12:37:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah right.


2 posted on 09/11/2023 12:40:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

They just look alike.


3 posted on 09/11/2023 12:41:52 PM PDT by Howie66 ("Biden-Fetterman 2024. It's A No Brainer")
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe moot. Until any Chinese cars, EV or ICE, are at least crash tested and pass, they aren’t coming here until they are at least 25 years old, assuming it works the same as importing an uncertified Japanese domestic vehicle.


4 posted on 09/11/2023 12:43:59 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: nickcarraway

And the other 9800 were as SerpantZ claimed. That was only one of dozens of such EV car sites. Much of the footage was taken on the ground, not by drones.


5 posted on 09/11/2023 1:08:00 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Not much of a debunking.


6 posted on 09/11/2023 1:11:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: PIF

Not much of a debunking.


7 posted on 09/11/2023 1:11:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: PIF

“debunked” because the viral video claimed that the EVs were a particular model of electric vehicle that no one has ever heard of. In fact, the vehicles were a different model of electric vehicle that no one has ever heard of. So there you have it, the story was completely debunked, there was never a shred of truth to the aerial videos of the tens of thousands of EVs that were abandoned. Got it?


8 posted on 09/11/2023 1:17:28 PM PDT by brookwood (To achieve equity, the percentage of whites in prison must equal the percentage of blacks in prison)
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To: nickcarraway
How do you say "Potemkin Village" in Mandarin?

That's what Mark Rainford was shown.

9 posted on 09/11/2023 1:20:01 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Paladin2

“ Not much of a debunking.”

No It’s Chicom/Green fascist propaganda outlet.


10 posted on 09/11/2023 1:23:00 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Serpentza has already fired back at this “debunking”.

They initially tried to say they were ICE powered vehicles because they had “gas caps”.

But of course, it is common to put the electrical connection in the same spot, and that’s what these cars had. The old gas flap door was used for the electric plug.


11 posted on 09/11/2023 1:24:42 PM PDT by ltc8k6 ( .)
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To: nickcarraway

CCP shill


12 posted on 09/11/2023 1:24:49 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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13 posted on 09/11/2023 1:25:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: brookwood

Love that word, you do; you even had to use it twice ... which means that the “shanghai auto guy” story is a fraud.


14 posted on 09/11/2023 2:12:35 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: nickcarraway

Why does one of the radio speakers often say speak up?.


15 posted on 09/11/2023 2:13:29 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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10,000 EV's and not one of them catches fire?

Something's wrong here.

16 posted on 09/11/2023 2:18:07 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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Probably just storing them there waiting for Gavin “The Jackal” Newsom’s edict for EVs only to kick in.


17 posted on 09/11/2023 2:44:02 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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10,000 EV's and not one of them catches fire?

Perhaps they put cardboard fillers in them instead of batteries.

And the body panels are made from tofu with a heavy coat of epoxy and paint.

I am told that is the way the Chinese build apartments in the new ghost cities.

18 posted on 09/11/2023 2:49:34 PM PDT by flamberge (Politics is show business for ugly people)
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To: brookwood

Interesting video here: https://insideevs.com/news/681742/truth-about-china-ev-graveyard/


19 posted on 09/11/2023 3:05:09 PM PDT by stylin19a (The #1 Golf rule you MUST follow: take car keys out of golf bag before throwing it into the creek)
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the debunk was a field of “new” EV’s. “New” mostly doesn’t appear to be the case. There were a few new mentioned\showed and they weren’t Chinese.


20 posted on 09/11/2023 3:09:03 PM PDT by stylin19a (The #1 Golf rule you MUST follow: take car keys out of golf bag before throwing it into the creek)
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