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China’s electric cars look like golf carts with a plastic skin wrapped around it. The don’t look like they have much more safety features than a road legal golf
by wil421 8y ago
China’s electric cars look like golf carts with a plastic skin wrapped around it. The don’t look like they have much more safety features than a road legal golf cart in my state.
- NotPaidToPost 8y agoSure... https://www.nio.io https://www.nio.io
- gruez 8y agoHe was obviously referring to the ones pictured in the bloomberg article.
- NotPaidToPost 8y agoNot so obvious... Best not to hastily generalise based on a single picture from a single article, then.
- tinbad 8y agoAhh the NIO - a car that was announced back in 2016 that no one yet has seen in production form, let alone driven. Unfortunately, the EV startup market (especially in China) seem to only be good at building slick websites showcasing vaporware products, at least for now.
- HansLandaa 8y agoWhat? They've sold thousands of cars thus far. http://carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/nio/ http://carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/nio/
- rosser 8y agoA friend works for NIO. They're well past "slick websites showcasing vaporware".
- taobility 8y agodo you know Tesla's timeline for Model S/X/3 from announcement to production?
- mandeepj 8y agoep9 is just WOW
- rdl 8y agoWhen I was last in China my friends friends had $10-20k BEVs which I didn't even realize were BEVs until I was riding inside; seemed like generic compact cars to me.
- contingencies 8y agoI live here and echo this sentiment. Easiest way to tell the difference is through the green number plates.
- taobility 8y agobesides the NIO someone else provided, here is some other NEV: Marvel X: https://medium.com/electricbee/the-roewe-marvel-x-45c11cd5eef7 https://medium.com/electricbee/the-roewe-marvel-x-45c11cd5ee... Xiaopeng: https://electrek.co/guides/xiaopeng-motors/ https://electrek.co/guides/xiaopeng-motors/ Weima: https://www.wm-motor.com/ex5.html https://www.wm-motor.com/ex5.html Lixiang: https://www.lixiang.com/ https://www.lixiang.com/
- etaty 8y agoOnly Americans need a tank on the road. Weight is a big problem when you want to travel far. In a perfect world, the electric car is not the solution, we should aim for electric scooter, moped, bicycle, ... for our daily travels.
- gumby 8y agoFWIW Germany, the UK and Australia, at least, have a lot of large vehicles as well.
- BLKNSLVR 8y agoConfirm Australia is becoming SUV-dominant. Too many Australians will laugh smugly at the America portrayed by Family Guy because they never look in the mirror. Disclaimer: I have a seven-seater. I hate it, but I'm not the one that drives the kids and their friends around with startling regularity so I don't get a say, and only reap the rewards of its presence despite talking it down. Would happily re-draw from the mortgage for a BEV to replace it once they're actually available in Oz at remotely practical prices.
- rebuilder 8y agoWeather is a bit problematic with those. When you regularly get rain, sleet, snow and freezing temperatures, you want a cabin and heating.
- Knufen 8y agoI've lived in the US and understand the long driving distances makes it hard. That being said weather is a non issue, I bicycle everywhere all year around no matter the weather (live in Denmark). As long as the trips are below 10 km at least.
- sergiosgc 8y agoWeather is a problem with those, but much worse for me is personal injury risk. Assuming you'll have a fender-bender every couple hundred thousand km, on a bike/scooter/moped that means regularly broken bones, at a minimum. Not for me.
- schuke 8y agoThe type you describe is very popular among older people and the rural area. But they’re mostly built by small factories that produce scooters. Most of them aren’t even road legal vehicles with mandatory insurance. They are popular but not representative of the real EV industry.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThose were mostly about milking EV subsidies anyways. The Chinese government caught on and put an end to these vehicles as scams.