Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "China’s EVs Are Shockingly Bad: Priced at $80,000 and Still Prone to Spontaneous Combustion" video.

  1. There is a reason for this; two thirds of the combustion energy or an internal combustion engine comes from the oxygen in air. The Li-ion battery, on the other hand, must store and hold all of it's energy, not get some of it from the atmosphere, like combustion engines. Hence, the stored energy potential is considerably higher in battery poweted EVs, leading to potentially thermal overload and extremely hot fires. It reputably takes hours of fire fighting to put out a burning EV vehicle,
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  2. Buying a Chimese EV in Europe might seem value for money for an EU consumer, but the hidden costs are many in comparison to other established competing foreign brand cars, particularly from Japanese or Korean automobile manufacturers, who have similar build quality to European manufacturers. The build culture in CCP China (not Taiwan), is to make products cheaper and cheaper but by substituting fake and shoddily made car parts. Since 90% of the car cannot be seen by just casually looking at it, these problems become manifold. Furthermore, long established automobile companies, like Toyota and Hyundai have a mature and usually fairly cost efficient system of acquiring replacement car parts in many countries they trade with. The Chinese companies like BYD, do not have an efficient parts replacement system, consequently their parts may be significantly more expensive to replace, in comparison to Japanese and Korean cars, and take longer to arrive at the maintenance garage, and have doubtful quality control.
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