Re: [OT] Thinking of buying a Chinese EV? Here's why you shouldn't.

On 2024-05-05 04:45:28 +0000, shawn said:

On Sat, 4 May 2024 23:53:05 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:
 

On 5/4/2024 7:27 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 5/4/2024 5:16 PM, Rhino wrote:

An interesting video about Chinese EVs and why you really shouldn't buy
one, despite the usually attractive price:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HpkDUWAKFM

 I'm not expert enough to know whether to trust that guy and his video.
 

 Most Chinese manufacturing is like that

 Still, I remember a time when that was Japan's rep.  And then it wasn't.

 The problem with China being that the market place is so large that
there will always be companies in the country with a justified bad
reputation even if most of the products were well made.
 

Point being, there's a lot of money that would like to strangle Chinese
EVs in their infancy ...and I don't know this video guy from Elvis.

 This guy has been reporting and even living in China for years. Mostly
reporting on the dark side of the country. Things that others have
reported on like the cities that were built but no one lives in or the
short cuts many construction companies have taken over the years. Even
the EV issues have been reported by other people.
 Does that mean that all EVs from China are junk? No, but it does mean
that the buyer needs to be cautious and make sure they know what they
are likely getting and not just go for the cheapest product. It's not
that all Chinese products are awful but that with such a large market
it's easy for fly by night companies to form and rip people off.

Most things are made in China or made from parts made in China, so saying "Chinese EVs are crap" is simply stupid since the electric cars made anywhere else also likely include the same exact parts from the exact same factories. Same with normal cars, refrigerators, computers, TVs, shoes, ...
It's due to China (and these days India due to the US throwing fitrs about "Chinese spying") having the cheap labour force ... why pay US or UK workers $20 an hour when you can simply get a Chinese and Indian factories to make things and they pay their workers 50c per hour? Despite all the whiners going on about underpaid Chinese workers and boycotting Chinese made products, if things were manufactured elsewhere, everybody would then be complaiing about things costing five times as much in the shops.