Comments by "Joe Qi" (@i6power30) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. When can't compete, change the rules.
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  2. Thanks viking for exposing the truth about China's automotive dominance and excellence and many in the West are still ignorant of this fact
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  3. I hope Japan chooses the right side. i grew up in Japan as a teenager. Privately they are not really fond of America / Western culture. They think American music is cringe, English language is awkward. We were forced to take English class in public schools, we all hated it. But they feel they have to adapt to the American culture out of fear and pressure. I remember one funny kid in class said, we have no choice but to learn English - if we didn't, you know they have those airplanes fly by and we'd all be screwed. Thene veryone including the teacher laughted. I'm sure you know what he was referring to . But privately they think their own Japanese culture is more civilized and higher level than the American. With the rise of China, this validate their view that our Asian brotherrs are just as good if not better than crude Americans.
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  4. America politics is so corrupt. Money can buy votes.
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  5. Reliability. People think old proven technology is less likely to go wrong than new unproven ones. Trade efficiency for reliability. That's always been Toyota's philospophy. Or maybe just laziness.
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  6. Airless tires have 20% more rolling resistance therefore will decrease the range. Also they are stiffer and compromises ride comfort and more road noise.
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  7. Rude awakening for German engineers with their superiority complex.
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  8. Canadian here. wish we were in Australia.
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  9. As a Canadian I'm ashamed of our government who has no backbone and consistently bend over backwards for uncle Sam.
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  10. There is also a big geopolitical risk with China. If China - West relationship deterrioates even further, it will affect all Chinese businesses. He is not wrong in selling BYD. It's a part of risk management of any good investor.
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  11. Please send them to Canada! EVs and cars in general here are too expensive and lacking variety!
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  12. Can't blame Chinese people's apprehension on Japan. Japan not only killed millions of Chinese but also conducted human experiments and other atrocities. Unlike Germany, Japan never paid a dime in reparation to China nor even admitted responsibility for atrocities commited in China.
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  13.  @dmmcmah1  In the US and Western countries, there are lots of people think ICE and diesel are cool. They are emotionally attached to the noise, vibration and exhaust smells, it tingles their senses and nastalgic of excitement in their youths. China's population for the most part don't have this baggage.
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  14. No matter what happened, it shows Elon's hot headedness, and imaturity. He was diagnosed as Autism as a child, it's not a surprise.
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  15. If ypou never heard of Shenzhen, you truly are living under a rock.
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  16. Chinese made Tesla has less panel gaps than American ones.
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  17. CATL makes the best battery. Can you imagine the depreciation of the current EVs using Korean and Japanese batteries.
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  18. All you hear from the Western media is how bad China's economy is. Yet, China's technology innovation is winning more and more business from the world. The Western economy is supported by debt and consumption. China's economy is supported be innovation and export.
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  19. Number doesn't mean much without knowing how many were sold and in use. All the top complaints seem to be the popular cars too.
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  20. As a Chinese Canadian, and early adoptor of EVs (since 2017), I welcome this news. It's brilliant move by BYD to start limited import use as Uber vehicles to show people how great their cars are, and dispell the myth of Chinese EV fire risks. Then slowly, people will demand them, and democratically elected government has to bend to people's will.
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  21. We can still get CATL battery Tesla in Canada yay
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  22. Strange, as smart as Germans are, they failed to produce any world class software companies. I think their engineering philosophy is too focused on engineering perspective, not from user perspective.
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  23. At least the Chinese are making good cars with the subsidizes. The US are making junk with all that money
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  24. I support EV but honestly this is a quite biased opinion. Driver error destroyed engine doesn't prove Toyota is unreliable under normal operation.
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  25. I'd buy a Chinese car over German car any time. Not because it's cheaper but because Chinese make higher quality cars then German cars, and more honest.
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  26. VW software team was good at making "cheating" software for its diesel vehicles, but failed to make good EV softwares. Not that surprising.
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  27. Now, Tesla's priority is to deploy armed humanoid robots at every supercharging station.
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  28. Regardless the exact numbers. The fact is that Tesla needs China more than China needs any Western auto makers. The combined BYD, geely , Nio, xpeng li auto etc. numbers has already surpassed Tesla. China would like to retain Tesla in China purely for technology hedging purposes. Ie. If Tesla breaks through any new technology China will be the first to learn and integrate it with their EVs.
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  29. VW never has incentive to maintain reliability of these chargers. They'd rather people go back to petrol cars
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  30. Constantly changing prices is kind of unethical business practice. When price rises, it angers future perspective buyers. When price drops, it angers people who already bought at higher price. It leaves a sour taste in your mouth and gives company a perception that it only cares about short term profit not giving consumer a stable price.
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  31. Very old technology from 70s. Very poor energy density. Sam are you running out of things to talk about
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  32. Japanese superiority complex
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  33. ​ @LEA82345 you are joking right? Chinese EVs are 10 years ahead of BMW, VW, Audi. German engineering is history now
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  34. They can also ban American fast food brands. Starbucks
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  35. When Elon is lying about FSD it's genius. When other CEOs exaggerate, it's needs investigation.
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  36.  @jasonbrown7330  What a brilliant insight! If you want to be rich, you just have to be smart! WOW. If that was the case, the world will have millions of billionaires! Instead, the wealth often comes with luck, instead of intelligence.
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  37. So a Japanese brand is masquerading itself as a Chinese brand because Chinese consumers see Japanese EVs as inferior to Chinese. Wow I never thought this day would come so soon.
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  38. Just a bunch of mechanical engineers at Toyota refuses to retrain and make career changes. Life long employment is a culture in Japan.
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  39. I strongly agree with this. Physical controls are more intuitive than touch screens.
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  40. They use LG chem batteries, that's why.
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  41. I have a feeling that BYD will be the Toyota of 21st century. 90% of legacy automakers will go bankrupt or be acquired by Chinese companies.
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  42. What most people don't know is that Chinese EVs are actually better built and more reliable then Western brands.
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  43. Volvo safety considerations are still the class leading.. They go far beyond standard crash tests
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  44. Such good price, and with wide selection of EVs in Australia, the EV adoption rate is still around or under 10%? What's wrong with people?
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  45. EU EV sales plumets 40%
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  46. 5 years is long term? hahahah. If any car requires major maintenance and repair cost it's a lemon! or had been abused. Wait till EVs need repairs at year 8 and beyond, all of its parts and labour are more expensive than ICE car at the moment. I'm not just talking about batteries which will pretty much write off your EV if it needs replacement. For example, AC or heat pump costs more to replace than AC units in a ICE car, among many other things. Battery pack is the biggest risk. If just one module or cell goes bad,, or BMS circuit is fried, the entire pack needs to be replaced. Rarely can they be taken apart and repaired. Whereas, a ICE car's engine can be repaired at fraction of cost (timing belt, spark plugs, coolant pumps etc. ) Yes, there are many more things can go wrong in ICE cars, but each repair is much less than the entire battery pack of an EV. A well built and maintained ICE car shouldn't have things constantly go wrong with it, especially it's from reliable brands such as Toyota and such. European brands will bankrupt you when they are old though, it depends on brands and model .
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  47. These kinds of vidoes just frustrate us North Americans. We will never have access to these nice EVs.
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  48.  @tylersen3318  Tesla is willing to eat the cost of vandalised vehicles?
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  49. Nice try $TSLA bag holder. See you at $69
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  50. How is this even legal? blocking ports?
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