Auto execs in the US, Europe, and Japan never thought Chinese EVs were a threat. Now they’re coming to wipe the floor with their Western counterparts.

Auto execs in the US, Europe, and Japan never thought Chinese EVs were a threat. Now they’re coming to wipe the floor with their Western counterparts.

“You won’t believe what’s coming,” warned the title of a January 2023 video from the Inside China Auto YouTube channel. “Europe’s premium car makers aren’t ready for this,” warned another video from the same channel, uploaded in July.

Produced by Shanghai-based automotive journalist Mark Rainford, a former communications executive for Mercedes-Benz, the channel is one of several by China-based Western commentators agog at what they are seeing—and driving.

  • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
    251·
    9 months ago

    I mean… I own a BYD in Australia. It’s got 400 km range and it’s the cheap, low range model. With a 5 star safety rating.

    What was that you were saying about unsubstantiated propaganda?

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      327·
      9 months ago

      That I would like sources rather than unsubstantiated propaganda.

      Anecdotes are fun, though.

      Which byd do you have?

      • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
        181·
        9 months ago

        An Atto 3. Is that relevant?

        You’re making a blanket statement that none of something exists, so a single example existing is actually a sufficient counterpoint. We’re not arguing numbers, we don’t need to establish statistical significance.

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          527·
          9 months ago

          Woo, bit defensive. Yea, who needs numbers anyway?

          I think if you’re sharing an anecdote about the car you own that you have not mentioned you are satisfied with but are presumably attempting to make some undefined point by mentioning, yes, the model is relevant.

          My initial comment(about the article) does not express that evs do not exist in China, it expresses that the article is incredibly and embarassingly overreaching in its effusive praise for completely unsubstantiated in-house marketing for theorized future products from one of the least reliable industries in China.

            • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              25·
              9 months ago

              Very convincing.

              Think I’ll just continue to be correct and you can dance along to the merry tune of everyone else who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.