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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Auto execs in the US, Europe, and Japan never thought Chinese EVs were a threat. Now they’re coming to wipe the floor with their Western counterparts.

“You won’t believe what’s coming,” warned the title of a January 2023 video from the Inside China Auto YouTube channel. “Europe’s premium car makers aren’t ready for this,” warned another video from the same channel, uploaded in July.

Produced by Shanghai-based automotive journalist Mark Rainford, a former communications executive for Mercedes-Benz, the channel is one of several by China-based Western commentators agog at what they are seeing—and driving.

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

American, Japanese, and European car manufacturers had decades head start in this area and they blew it chasing higher profit margins on large trucks and SUVs with lax EPA gas mileage restrictions at a time when climate change has become a major crisis.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Invested in lobbying instead of products

[-] ours@lemmy.film 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And BS green washing with dead end hydrogen demo cars.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Yeah they're so weirdly fucking attached to hydrogen cars even though there has never been anything even remotely approaching a solution to their problems.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

The execs could make extra money double dipping from oil companies, they are taking marketing funds from oil companies pushing hydrogen too.

Utility companies are often public and even otherwise evs don't really have the same margins for electricity.

[-] ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Who Killed the Electric Car is an excellent look at early EV business in North America

[-] nephs@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Petrol cars go brrrrrr

[-] Jas91a@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I still get angry thinking of what happened

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

American gasoline cars suck and are more embarrassing than other country's gasoline cars, but Chinese EVs are not at all a viable competitor in the market yet and so far have consistently failed to even gain a foothold for 15 years straight.

If you have any counterargument to that, I'd like to see it.

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