Comments by "Joe Qi" (@i6power30) on "Electric cars hit 48% in China - Legacy auto could lose billions this year" video.

Overall China market is in decline because of real estate rout.
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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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This past lunar new year travel in China exposed charging problem that many EVs in China had to wait in queues for a whole day to charge. The throughput of EV charging is still too slow compared to traditional gas cars, even if there equals number of stalls. Not sure how they are going to fix the peak travel demand issues without spending way more to build out redundant charging infrastructure for average days. Perhaps battery swapping like Nio is the better solution.
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@yvesinformel221 Not at all. You need to understand, it's easier to stock up gasoline in anticipation of high demand such as holiday travel or summer road trip seasons. But it would be quite uneconomical to build more power plants to supply more electricity when all the cars at the same time decided to use fast charger. It's not possible. Also you need 3 times more charging stalls as gas pumps just to match the throughput - average gas fillup is 10 minutes vs 30 minutes of EV fast charging sessions. With that many redundant charging stalls, it would be very expensive for the EV charging operators to build and maintain all that redundancy when they are not in use when demand is low. That cost will be passed to EV consumers making fast charging very expensive.
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@Joe44944 Sounds reasonable. In extreme cold weather, travelling long distance in EV is still a challenge. That's why I got a PHEV instead of two cars.
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@davidinkster1296 you need to read my comments again.. I already know the joy you are talking about. But it doesn't help when you have to travel out of town you still need public charging infrastructure.
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@reubencarter3004 yes I forgot Honda, though Mazda has been gaining market share against Honda in recent years. I recently was in a brand new BMW X5. There is nothing luxury about it with feeling of engine and transmission vibration at idling or is starting from the stop. It made me very anxious. After driving EVs half the cost of an X5 already spoiled me enough not to consider any German luxury throw away mobiles. I think only the old and traditional folks will buy them and they will surely fade away as they are not taking EV transition seriously. Maybe Volvo and polestar could take German luxury crown, as Volvo is committed to electrification.
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@larryc1616 not quite the same. EVs can't replace ice in all use cases as digital photography replaced all films.
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@larryc1616 it depends on how much better battery tech and charging infrastructure will get.. as of now in North America, long distance travel is still difficult with EV especially in cold weather.
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@robertwoodhouse-bm7kt Japan and the US will be the only countries still burning fossil fuel for passengers vehicles.
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