Spend 80 years organizing your geography around the car
Spend 70 years justifying capitalism as superior because of affordable and abundant consumer goods
Spend 30 years organizing your economy around importing those consumer goods specifically from China.
Fuck no, you obviously can’t buy a cheaper and better EV from China!
Please give me a tiny truck.
me too!!!
Small truck gang!
There’s some tech bro nonsense coming out of China’s EV market but a lot of it is genuinely very cool and exciting. Reminds me of when cell phone companies were still figuring out which gimmicks worked and which didn’t. The price points and the trip ranges are easily the most exciting parts for me though.
I wish I lived in the alternate timeline where the USSR was putting out a new Lada EV that still has all physical controls and the only user-facing tech stuff was a head unit with Bluetooth and a small screen for the backup camera. If it made any economic sense, my ideal car would be some low tech 2000s subcompact like a first gen Scion xB or Honda Fit retrofitted with a modern EV powertrain. Well, I guess my ideal car is no car at all, but y’know.
I’m with you. I don’t need my headlights to project graphics onto the road in front of me. I don’t want my side mirrors to be camera feeds. I don’t need a projector screen to unfold in the back seat. I don’t need a dedicated little tablet to replace all the climate controls. I just want to be able to drive in comfort and not pay out the ass for the privilege.
Open source low cost EV please
No, they crave any low cost EV.
Which country is producing EVs that cost less than $10k?
They don’t care where it comes from, is my point.
No, they really do care.
It happened with the Japanese automakers, and it is happening worldwide with Chinese automakers right now.
And it’s every industry. Not just auto.
Nobody buys American cars unless they are doing it out of patriotism. There is no objective reason to buy a Ford over a Toyota.
If the identical product is made in Peru, people will prefer to buy the Chinese product.
If the product is made for cheaper in Peru, people will still prefer to buy the Chinese product.
It really does not take much critical thought to arrive at this conclusion.
Go ahead, stay in your bubble. It benefits me more anyway.
Chinese only please. Less fed spyware.
Nope, I specifically want a Chinese one.
no, i specifically want the Chinese stuff.
it’s intriguing to me
Why? If the identical product was made in Peru, would you still want it from China? It’s a car not a tank.
Their styling stands out, also there are things inherent to being from China i find more fascinating, especially not being the primary market to these vehicles, similar to 1980’s JDM vehicles have features inherent for it’s primary markets over our domestic products
So nothing specific just because China. Got it.
Shit’s way cheaper. And I am curious about their cars, nothing wrong with that.
So you want a cheap EV, and you don’t really care where it’s from. Additionally, you are curious about their cars.
(There is nothing wrong with being curious about their cars)
On top of that, the Chinese manufacturers seem willing to add more creature comforts or (admittedly) useless features. It’s cheaper and made to a vision outside what my domestic market provides, and way more enticing than any EV i could think of now.
Probably the best part is cutting out dealers because they’ve put the domestic industry in a terrible position overcharging for every available make and model for sale, thinking that the market can hold the high prices they demand because they still think people still have spare cash from covid. Now their overstock inventory hasnt moved for some up to a half a year, and they’re trying to cut prices down because their stock is bought via financing, which I’ve recently learned “punishes” dealers if stock doesnt move after 3 months by shooting up the interest rates, lighting a fire under their ass.
This is a problem of their own making, and having a new competitor helps shake up these markets
Now if Peru entered the automotive market with something it would be interesting for other reasons, I know Peru doesnt have the industry to make EVs and i dont find it fruitful to think in these kinds of hypotheticals. Their needs would produce a different kind of vehicle entirely
nope. I want a chinese one as even at the same cost its better quality, better features.
How do you know it’s better quality if you haven’t been in one ;)
Mostly because CATL is the largest battery maker in the world, China has way less expensive EVs than anywhere else. You can get a solid range EV with tons of nice cutting edge features, and it still costs less than just about any competitive offering. This year’s cool new feature is headlights that are digital projectors, so vehicles are mobile drive-in movie theaters now.
Turn on my high beam yellow Parenti on the family assault vehicle that just cut me off.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
