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EU would need 50% tariffs to curb imports of Chinese electric cars (www.ft.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've heard people using Chinese EVs in China saying that using them long term often is a pain because they're so poorly designed

Source for that claim?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don't remember where I read it since it was maybe a year ago. But it was someone who talked about the difference between test driving a Chinese car (I think he was talking about one or two specific brands) and using it longer term. That a lot of things you don't notice during a test drive but you realize over time how things are poorly designed and integrated. And I'm pretty sure I saw someone mentioning something similar on YouTube as well, but I have no idea if he was talking about the same brand. It might partially have been connected to why Volvo is an important company for the Chinese car industry.

And to be fair, those could very well be a brand specific things. Shitty brands are everywhere, in and outside China. But it's easy to draw a parallel with other Chinese products where they historically have ripped off western designs without knowing why things were designed the way they were and then did their own thing with it that missed the entire point of the design and just ended up bad.