I didn’t know that! Interesting little fact and super interesting that they don’t waste the energy but feed it back to the net.

I own a Chinese EV, MG5LR, around 25K when brand new... looks like a Passatt estate car, even down to the steering wheel... it’s not top of the range good, but coming up to 3 years old, it’s proved as capable as any other car I owned... the UK doesn’t really have any car makers, all owned by foreign interests now.

I hope they do succeed in the market with at least one brand that’s reliable and more tuned to western designs etc, I could see myself getting one at some point, but they would have to build the thing here, I really don’t trust direct imports

It’s not impossible. It just depends on how far you’re willing to go to back your own supposed morals.

It’s almost like when you don’t penalize companies for copying established automakers and getting a jumpstart on a decade of R&D they do well.

You say that as if we even have the option to buy a Lee-Xiandong 2235 Model 25 F-900074, or any other Chinese car.  

Reminds me of the electric dump trucks that generate excess electricity. They drive upwards to a quarry/mine, get loaded with cargo, and use regenerative braking on the way down. Since the truck weighs more on the descent because of the added cargo, they generate excess electricity which is distributed to the grid. I…

I’m not sure my GM car will last 100,000 miles, and the fit and finish is largely acceptable but not that great to begin with (I know, I was an idiot to give them another chance after the 1986 Pontiac I had that was a giant piece of shit), though there are interior parts already coming loose and rattling after just…

“I’m not exactly chomping at the bit to spend 10's of 1000's on something made in a country that actively employees slave labor and puts people in prison if you whisper something bad about the party.”

They do not want to do EVs, but they are doing EVs because they have to do EVs. The Big 3 have proven themselves to be very resistant to change, time after time. It happened in the 70's with their refusal to build cars that could genuinely compete with the imports, it happened in the 2000's when they refused to make…

ok, that’s a tiny fraction of your consumer spending. What about your food? What about your phone? Your car? Your appliances? Your electronics? Technically complex things that take a lot more resources to build and levee a heavier labor and material cost on the planet and on people. This is the weakest “buy ‘merican”…

This time is worse, because Chinese companies can build a car that all Americans would buy. In the 70s, Japanese cars were tiny cracker boxes, so they didn’t really compete with the domestic company’s bread and butter.

I think everyone also forgets how scared Big Oil is. With a full transition from ICE to EV in say just a decade from now (if, if, if) then nobody is going to need gasoline (in quantity) anymore like today. That is a very very short time to try to pivot your industry. Sure we need oil and plastics and asphalt and what…

Not much of a US/world history buff? This is incredibly naive. The bulk of products you have in your house are made in China. Getting holier than thou about manufacturing location is weak AF. Go actively advocate for human rights, but don’t bring that in as a serious counter to a superior and cheaper product in a…

They don’t actually want to do EVs, though. They have been spending that money because the federal regulations were beginning to shift towards EVs. Now that those regulations are being called into question or being altered to be less strict (and if Trump wins will likely be done away with altogether), you’re going to…

The solution for this, of course, is to permit these vehicles into the US market, assuming they meet the same regulatory and safety standards that apply to Japanese, Korean and German imports as well as domestically-produced American cars. If, as you say, the products turn out to be shit and the customer is indeed unfo…

Just the big 3?  You don’t think the Japanese or Korean automakers are equally worried?

They build nonsense cars like that so that they can point to sales figures and claim that nobody wants EVs/hybrids and just continue to build trucks, which is what they’ve always wanted to do.

At this point I feel they are purposely sabotaging the EV market so they can scream about it failing so they can get back to ICE vehicles.

Yep, so much this. Whether or not you agree with how they do it, China is investing in EVs at an incredible rate, and the US is not. It’s like we’ve learned nothing 40 year later.