China Auto Thread

[Beijingwalker]

Actions speak louder than words

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Lol, then how would you explain the fact that Chinese EVs sell like hotcakes around the world? doubling the sales every single year.
Is your day job to smear China? Your slander and the facts and numbers in real life reality don't add up.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem?

I wrote

I'm sure your car will be fine.

How is this a smear????

 

[Beijingwalker]

Do you have a reading comprehension problem?

I wrote


How is this a smear????

Everyone can see your purpose, but anyway, Ford CEO's action speaks it all.

 

[retaxis]

One thing to be mindful, and this is specific to Chinese electric cars more than other brands of electric cars is the level of integration of the car itself. In the case of Chinese cars, the electrical pack is part of the structural strength of the car whereas in other countries, it is treated as an additional pack that can be removed easily.

What this means is that if you have a bump, the Chinese car may end up costing alot more to repair because of the high level of integration. In the UK for example, insurance rates on Chinese cars are much higher than Tesla cars for this very reason, as they turn out to be more expensive to fix.

Whereas the Tesla will keep several components for the drive train, Chinese integrate them into 1 or 2, and while from an engineering perspective that is saving a lot of money, it means anything that fails, well turns out to be expensive.

There was a good Youtube video that high lighted this, and i just tried to find it on my watch history but i could not since I have my watch history turned off it seems.

Anyway - take a look at repair costs, speak with your insurance company first as they have alot of data on this already. They can tell you which is the cheapest and most expensive EV to "insure" which directly means which are the cheapest to repair and most expensive, etc.

Ah thanks for the heads up bro. Yeah I am not a brand loyalist so i am looking at all the cars and will ask around a bit more as well but you make a good point about the servicing and maintenance and repair costs for sure