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

  1. What a breath of fresh air! An EV without gimmicky flush door handles! I'd go with Chery for sure! The infotainment screen looks cleaner than ugly BYD stuck on rectangle in the middle as well.
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  2.  @juliahello6673  If your grandfather stole from my grandfather a goldbar, and passed it on to you. Even though you are not criminally responsible for what your grandpa had done, you are still required to give it back. You get my drift?
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  3. Not just EVs. BMW X5, gas model only got 4 stars also. These legacy brands rely on customer royalty and brand perception to maintain sales. Have you looked at the reliability ratings for most of European and American cars? They are horrendous.
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  4. US politics is a clown show
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  5. In the mean while in America, people are still having heated debate over Toyota Corrola and Mazda 3. LMAO!! 10 years behind China!
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  6. I suspect there might be deeper reason Chinese cars are priced so much higher in Europe than in Australia and Thailand. If it were just BYD, sure you can say that's their chess strategy, but why do all other Chinese car makers doing the same? Xpeng, SAIC etc. they are all priced 2x compared to China prices for the same cars. I think there might be under the table deals with European legacy autos - BMW, VW, Mercedes - Don't kill us, let us survive in Europe, we will keep making BMW / VW/ Audis in China and export back to Europe.
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  7. Big questions remain on how you deal with the nuclear waste
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  8. To clarify, BYD doesn't make hybrids they make plug in hybrids. Big difference.
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  9. Buses are more efficient than small passenger cars. They don't need to accelerate fast, just slow and steady. Also given its predicatable routes and always return to the same charging stations, it's much easier to have barely enough battery range, therefore maximally utilize its batteries, unlike many passenger cars batteries sits idle most of the time parked, and 50% of their batteries barely get used a couple times a year. I would say building electric buses, taxis, delivery vehicles have far more impact on improving environment than passenger cars dollar for dollar.
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  10. Japanese people have a tendency to keep improving and perfecting something once they are good at it, even if it becomes obsolete such as internal combustion engine. Katana etc.
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  11. ICE cars and EVs age differently. ICE ages on wear and tears (mileage), EV batteries age on calendar aging and charging cycles, no wear and tears. So the ideal use case for EVs is high mileage use, especially in city driving, they beat ICE cars by far. But if you are low mileage user (less than 10kkm per year), or, your battery will still degrade with time anyway, you are not getting your money worth. If you are a grandma only driving to church every Sunday, and only use 2000km per year, then you better off with ICE car, because then it will probably last 30+ years, many military vehicles are 50 years old because they are only occassionally used for excercise, very low mileage, but regularly moved around. The real problem with modern EVs is all the high tech gadgets that breakdown and require high repair cost. You will face thousands of $$$ repair bills for infotainment, electronics, control modules etc. way before you need to replace batteries.
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  12.  @chris-t-4569  Predicting depreciation is like predicting stock prices. In 5 years, your ICE car could also depreciate even worse than EVs if society becomes more acceptable to EVs, and during this time, you also burned a lot of fuel money.
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  13. That's not true..I own a Volvo XC90 phev. I plug in everyday and 95% of miles are pure electric. Why would anyone buy a phev and never plug in? They could have bought a cheaper non plug in car then
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  14. BYD and most other Chinese EVs are not even available for sale in North America, even if you wanted to pay 100% tariff.
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  15. Government checks
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  16.  @SubwayOM  it's not about whether or not seniors with weak hands or mental reaction time should or should not be driving. A car should be made as easy as possible for anyone to drive. Even if you are young and strong there might be times you are tired or run down or distracted. The system should still be made as simple and easily as possible for drivers to react without having to look away from the road.
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  17.  @chris-t-4569  Did you watch the video? MG4 is $24k AUD. Where can you get a brand new ICE car for $10k less?
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  18.  @pontiuspirate1925  MG, BYD are economy class cars. You should try cars like NIO and Zeekr that are more premium class.
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  19.  @lkrnpk  that's why Chinese don't want to eliminate foreign brands. They want to assimilate them. Just like Borgs in star Trek
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  20. Great.. Why doesn't Bill Gates build a nuclear plant in his backyard if he feels it's so safe?
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  21. Lucid CEO is clearly not informed that Tesla is mostly Chinese already.
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  22. YEah, but FSD doesn't work. There is no visible timeline it will ever work.
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  23. To those glorious internal combustion engine engineers who spent decades perfecting their craft. It's part of German engineering heritage and art form they need to preserve instead of embracing the new. They will forever live in the glory of the past just like the Japanese.
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  24. Ave cars sold in Europe have passed crash tests and most Chinese cars outperformed BMW
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  25. I'm not surprised a cellphone company suddenly decided to make cars. Of course there will be lots of problems. In my opinion the management made a strategic error entering an already saturated and highly competitive market as a novice.
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  26. Tesla's interior is not designed for driver focused. Lack of stalks for turn signals and gear shifter, can't even check your speed without taking eyes off road. Every little change, you need to look at the stuck on tablet. With this kind of speed, it's outright dangerous to be driving a faster car like having to take eyes off road for everything you want to change and check.
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  27. It's a Trojan horse to lure other EV makers to join them. Then rug pull to make customers switch to Tesla
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  28. This is what hubris can do to you. German car this and that. Now beaten by China? LMAO
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  29. Big advantage Audi Q4 e-tron has over Tesla model Y is no stuck on tablet in the middle of dash, and normal door handles that are easier to use.
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  30. And stop over-playing the fire risk for PHEVs. Of course with two kinds of fire sources in an accident - gasoline and battery, the risk is higher. Fire risks of any vehicle is extremely low anyway for EV, ICE or PHEV. With EV being the lowest 0.002% and ICE is 0.1%. You are comparing extremely low to still extremely low. Who cares? It's like saying Japan has lower crime rate than Switzerland. Both countries are SAFE ENOUGH. Both EVs and PHEVs have low enough fire risk it's negaligable.
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  31. I wonder what percentage of components and technology are sourced from China.
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  32.  @anonimato1987  The reverse is happening now that Chinese firms like CATL has to transfer tech to Americans if they want to setup shops here. It goes both ways. Sharing technology is a good thing for the whole ecosystem to keep advancing. Protectionism will only hinder progress. It's a wishful thinking that you can just invent something once and keep making money off it forever without having to keep innovating. It'll make you lazy and complacent. The US raising tarrifs on China is an admission that we are unwilling or unable to compete with China, but rather to use political and military threat to hinder the progress of the rival.
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  33. Overall China market is in decline because of real estate rout.
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  34. You underestimate the backwardness of rural America. They will never adopt EVs and never abandon their diesel trucks.
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  35. EV batteries are more limited by calendar aging than mileage, if you drive 400k miles in 3 years, of course it can do that. But can you drive 100k in 16 years? probably not. As with all modern cars (EV or ICE), the limiting factor is usually finicky eletronics and computers that age out before 10 years. So much critical functions are dependent on fragile computers that once they break, it will cost more than the car's worth to repair and replace them. So these high tech cars will be calendar time limited than mileage. I'd really want to see a low tech EV, where most of controls are directed via analog circuits and relays that will last forever just like a transistor radio. You can still have a touch screen for navigation and infotainment, but don't put critical vehicle control functions in them, such as gear shift, climate, temperature etc. Physical door latches and windows. Then that EV will probably last 50+ years and 1M miles.
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  36. ​ @castletown999 if you live in a sunny and warm climate, don't use clothes dryer. Hang clothes in the sun to UV dry it.. UV disinfect your clothes even better.
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  37. Cupra is not German. It's Spanish
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  38. I drive a XC90 PHEV. Hands down the most luxurious driving experience in all EVs. Not to mention the safety
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  39. Phevs make the most sense when it comes to resource allocation. For just 1/4 of battery material you get 95% of carbon reduction as long as you plug in every day and only use gas engine for once or twice a year road trips or reserve for emergency.
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  40. Ice still has a place in military
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  41. Americans always question about the safety of Chinese cars. But look at their own best selling models keep Wrangler, Toyota 4Runner, Sequoia, Tacoma with horrible crash ratings by IIHS
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  42. Don't get too hang up on range efficiency. Large battery packs have other advantages such as keep your cabin warm for much longer in cold winter while stuck in traffic than an efficient EV with small battery pack - it can't go anywhere fast stuck in traffic anyway, but still have to use energy for heating.
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  43. Of course EV sales should be good in places like California and Australia where weather is mild. Most EVs are built like they will never have to be in -10c with 3 ft snow. Think low ground clearance and flush door handles that will freeze shut. Not to mention low temperature will reduce range and heating cabin reduces it further.
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  44. Viking covering this story validates his fairness and without biases.
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  45. FSD is still far from complete.
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  46. This is what happens when the population is not culturally and emotionally attached to ICE - In the US it's the diesel trucks tough workhorse mentality, in Japan and Europe, it's the gas / turbo performance stick shift hot hatch tokyo drift menality. They just can't shake off that old automotive culture in the Western countries, they even put fake engine sound in EVs. I digress.
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  47. Tesla is a car company and should be valued as such. Their tech ventures so far has not born any fruits. The only success Tesla had so far is selling lots of model 3 and model Ys. FSD, robotaxi has been in development for 6 years with no end in sight. Humanoid robots - are you kidding me? it's at least 50 years away. Energy business? It's owned by Chinese - they are just a middleman selling CATL batteries.
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  48. Toyota seems still doing well.. at least in North America and Europe as people perceive it as being r the most reliable brand. Slight sales decline in Japan is due to Toyota trying to shift supply to fulfill the Western orders and stopped taking domestic orders. It's going to be dipole world. With ice being dominated by Toyota and Mazda. EVs dominated by Tesla and Chinese. European and American legacy autos are in real danger as they make very unreliable ice cars
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  49. Americans think you need to burn fuel in V8 to feel manly.
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  50.  @wongjock648  whether not you care is irrelevant. It affects a lot of Chinese people opinions on Japan, by extension their products sale in China.
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