China seems to be fond of having their mouths write checks their butts can’t cash. In the latest such incident, the American chief executive of a Chinese electric vehicle company, BYD, claims that American automakers don’t want to compete in the electric vehicle market because they “aren’t ready.”
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If that doesn’t make you fall down laughing, I don’t know what will.
Chinese companies such as BYD, the biggest global rival to America’sTesla, are forcing Western automakers to change their approach to electric vehicles if they want to remain competitive in a growing industry.
“They’re not ready,” said Stella Li, chief executive of BYD Americas. “For BYD, we are ready. We are ready for technology, and we are more ready on supply chain,” she told NBC News in an exclusive interview in April at BYD headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen, where SUVs, sedans and other gleaming models are displayed in the cavernous lobby.
Not ready? Is this “ready?”
Note that this video (at about 7:30) mentions, specifically, a BYD electric car that was involved in a severe collision in which the car’s airbags failed to deploy.
It’s not just all about airbags, either. Chinese-made electric vehicles are actually exploding — and by Chinese-made, we can safely say “Chinese Communist Party-made,” since industry in the Middle Kingdom is tightly controlled by the CCP. Oh, and look, there’s BYD again.
It’s not just cars, either. Chinese-made “E-Bikes” are also notorious for spontaneous combustion.
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Notice that these vehicles aren’t just combusting. They are exploding.
So, who exactly is it that isn’t ready for the electric vehicle marketplace? American auto manufacturers have dumped good money after bad in this market, but at least American vehicles aren’t, you know, exploding.
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China’s electric car manufacturers are doing so well, in fact, that the Chinese have fields of unsold cars, sitting, rotting, with nobody interested in them. Oh, and they are all BYD cars.
China is throwing away cars made by the same company whose American executive is claiming American industry is “not ready.”
Beijing is pouring subsidies into these companies.
The rise of BYD and the Chinese EV industry in general has been aided by more than a decade of strong support from Beijing in the form of subsidies, tax breaks and consumer incentives — in line with what the ruling Communist Party has billed as a larger strategy to fulfill its global climate commitments but what industry experts widely view as a competitive means to build a Chinese auto industry.
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Nobody has to take anyone’s word as to the quality problems with Chinese vehicles. You can see the video evidence for yourself. BYD has vehicles accumulating not only in fields in China but in warehouses around the world, vexed by quality control issues.
In short, don’t buy a Chinese EV. Don’t buy a Chinese vehicle of any sort. BYD’s American executive, Stella Li, is dissembling. It is China, not the United States, that is not ready for the electric vehicle market.
If you aren’t already following him, I recommend the young man who produced and narrated the videos above. He lived in China for 14 years, is married to a Chinese woman, and understands that land and the culture as well as anyone could, and his videos are very revealing. Check them out. He’s putting out what is really happening in China, and it’s eye-opening.