Comments by "" (@PainterVierax) on "The Coming Chinese EV Export Boom" video.

@alphadog6970 In EU, a lot of people from the nothern countries drive more than 1000 Km to the south during the summer holidays. EV autonomy should improve a lot to be in every home. Though it's not about EV or combustion engine car, it's about wanting to buy a VW, Renault, Fiat, Volvo, Peugeot instead of foreign cars. Most EU (and NA) people would rather spend more for a well-established local brand with a strong repair shop network. It's not enough to break the prices. Only Dacia did succeed to enter the western EU market 15years ago but it already was the low-cost brand of the Renault-Nissan group exclusive to eastern Europe and it's the consumers who forced the hand by importing them. Other than that, even the american manufacturers had to push their car chassis through existing brands like Seat or Opel to sell them. Japanese and Korean brands still have small market shares in EU, despite generally being a bit more affordable. Now add the fact that in EU there is a lot of resentment about security and privacy to buy from PRC. This is not at the level of NA but way more frightening than the Japanese then Taiwanese and Korean product waves during the last decades of the 20th century.
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they won't conquer the Western countries, just like other Asian manufacturers before them. One of the reason is part availability as it's really a struggle when you search a replacement part for a car from another continent even across the Atlantic ocean.
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@lozkko Again, there is a ton less Japanese and Korean cars in EU than local brands despite being a bit cheaper. And you forgot an important point about cars: The reselling factor and repairability is a huge point for consumers. That means even at the same price, ICE will maintain strong selling advantages over EV. Being unable to commute with an ICE during occasional pollution peaks is the only inconvenience but that just means more (electric?) public transportation usage during those days.
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@haveaseatplease I wasn't talking about chip shortages, I was talking about parts to repair a car. If they don't support a wide repair network across the continent, that will be a disadvantage over native brands. This is what foreign brand buyers suffers the most. And not having enough market share means not even able to find repurposed parts from scrapyards, which is common for body, bumpers or lights. Being vertically integrated can't be 100% for a complex product like a car, too much raw materials are involved. Though automotive chip shortage is mainly due to manufacturers using the same parts from the same brands using the same foundry, … just like a global vertically integrated company in fact! What saved BYD during that time is more about having another chipmaker than TSMC.
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