Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Why the E-vehicles market is central to Germany-China rivalry | DW Business Special" video.

  1. Hybrid vehicles will be around but not because they are an advancement. They are more complicated and subject to mechanical problems than either ICE or EV. They take the Rube Goldberg whirligig that is the ICE engine and make it even more complicated and subject to problems, while the obvious direction is the simplicity of EV with three moving parts per engine as opposed to ICE 1500 moving parts or hybrid 1500 plus, and hybrid owners almost always only use the gas engine. The most meaningful major advancement in the developing world would be in the cities and the best thing in the cities would be for the millions of scooter drivers to switch to EV scooters with batter swap tech.
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  2. Kind of silly since the number one EV manufacturer by far in both China and Europe is Tesla, and they produce cars in both China and Germany. The uninformed and intentionally misinforming media pretends like there is some kind of race going on, while the fact is that there is only a race for "also ran". Tesla is so far ahead of any other EV manufacturer that any meaningful comparison can only be made between Tesla and cars that cost twice as much as a Tesla and Tesla is still the better product. The news media seems to think that other companies are "catching up" to Tesla, but the truth is that minute by minute Tesla is pulling further ahead, and reducing prices at the same time. German auto, with the exception of German Tesla has dug its own grave, Chinese EV with the slight exception of BYD, like the American (with the exception of American Tesla, have yet to produce an EV without losing tens of thousands of dollars on each unit, and BYD who is really only a contender in China, is claimed by the media to be the biggest EV producer in China, while the fact is that this is only true is you count hybrid gas vehicle, Tesla produces the most, best, and only meaningfully profitable EVs in China, Europe, and America, and the reason has nothing to do with the reports by the media, which lives or dies on ad revenues, and Tesla does not advertise. The reason they are number one in spite of the disinformation given out everyday by the media, is because when all things are considered Tesla offers value far exceeding that of all other EV manufacturers and a place to actually charge them without anxiety.
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  3.  @rodmarker2071  You need to get up to speed on your "facts". Those fields of cars are off lease hybrids and ICE that have been discontinued. Batteries do not explode, gas tanks explode, when the fumes ignite. Some batteries do catch fire, but far far fewer than gas fires in ICE. We have the statistic on this and evidently all you have is media lies.
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