Comments by "N Velsen" (@nvelsen1975) on "The Coming Chinese EV Export Boom" video.

@dannydaw59 Maybe you should stop watching Fox News or similar brainwashing vids then. Teslas spontaneously caught fire due to shitty LG batteries, which Tesla since discontinued. What batteries do Tesla use? Well I'll give you a hint, it starts with B and ends in YD. 😆
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@joansparky4439 Uhm, yep. I've never seen a hype train go faster than media pushing Tesla's mediocre-to-bad crap. Even today Tesla's absolute dogsh*t repairability and upsell scam are kept out of autoblogs. And how crappy the media are is shown by Dutch magazine Autoweek, which whines and cries about BYD's cars screaming "What data do they send to their Chinese overlords huh!" as a downside. But Tesla's privacy policy of "Hahaha stoopid eurotrash, there is no privacy, we OWN you" is never even mentioned. The fact that outside of the US you can't enforce the Tesla upsell-scam? Never mentioned. While this means that if ANY Tesla owner has an accident, they will be left thousands out of pocket because they have to pay the upsell price, but insurance only pays the real price.
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@HandFromCoffin Well that's the thing: China is so far ahead on EV's that we have those road reviews now. Also strangely enough that never stopped anyone from buying a Tesla, even though they score 1980's safety ratings, illegal and dangerous 'autopilot' beta software, spying on your data, no parts available, etc etc etc. The reality is people only knock Chinese vehicles because of Tucker Carlson-syndrome.
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Why would it cost more to have a good transportation mix, instead of going down the road of mobility-hostile design and throwing away out entire future on the lunatic idea of public transport for everything? It's a delusion I often encounter in urbanites who live locked inside the city, working shitty city jobs, paying through their teeth for city services, never leaving the city... But surely anyone who's been out in society knows that everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car unless it's closer than 5 km (bicycle) or it's inside a major city.
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@freemanol No, most people don't do that. Single trip commutes start at 3 km average with many countries that gathered data pusing 20+ km. Also there's the issue that if you impose a dictatorship of a car-free life, you deny people jobs because they're less mobile. The number of potential jobs decreases as they rely on public transport. You can either facilitate people's demand for mobility or fail. There is no 'third way'.
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@AlbatrossCommando Chinese cars don't either, unless you ask idiots who are Fox News levels of dumb and deceitful.
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@chickenfishhybrid44 Compared to Samsung, Apple is indeed a low volume player that struggles to keep above 25% market value for any function. Expect those rates to worsen as anti-corporate legislation such as mandatory repairability, starts to bite. Software I work with, HAVE to work with as it's government-mandated, supports no Apple predatory ecosystem formats. You want to upload photos in their shitty unnecessary heic format? You can't AND you're not allowed.
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@jimc1654 Samsung is 50% bigger in most quarters, globally, according to CounterpointResearch. Apple's best-ever market share is 23%. Plenty of suckers willing to give Apple money for inferior products. But look around outside smartphones: Do you know anyone with a watch or a computer from Apple? I really don't, except one dumbsh*t architect whose files we don't accept because none of it is compatible. On a list of over 76 entries, that's a pretty bad score for Apple, with everybody using various Windows PCs and Lenovo being a sudden rising star.
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@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Naah, some rich people and wannabes (aged 40-70) also use them because they don't mind paying too much for the entire ecosystem. They mainly want something that works with default options and minimal time spent on it.
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