Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

[Priller]

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I was in Montreal in December and had a taxi take me to the airport that was a BYD. It was roomy but, everything about it screamed early 2000s Hyundai plastics and Casio instruments. Not sure how long they would hold up.

Granted it was being used as a taxi and would get a lot of kilometres.

It’s kinda like a temu version of an EV. It is sized and drives as it should. Questionable quality for certain.

Things are changing fast. A Chinese-Canadian co-worker just sent me this, and it gives some sense of what you can buy in China (assuming you can handle the hyperbolic enthusiasm of the narrator):

I still have my doubts about long-term reliability, and a lot of the gadgets hold zero appeal for me personally, but these cars are far more ambitious and relentlessly trying new stuff to see what works. One thing that's clear, though, is that they're not just cheap and cheerful econoboxes, they're luxury status symbols that value tech above all.

 

[GreyGhost]

Things are changing fast. A Chinese-Canadian co-worker just sent me this, and it gives some sense of what you can buy in China (assuming you can handle the hyperbolic enthusiasm of the narrator):

I still have my doubts about long-term reliability, and a lot of the gadgets hold zero appeal for me personally, but these cars are far more ambitious and relentlessly trying new stuff to see what works. One thing that's clear, though, is that they're not just cheap and cheerful econoboxes, they're luxury status symbols that value tech above all.

Why are they almost all renders? If these are things that I can easily buy, there should be actual video of them. Also, price in China is likely completely unrelated to price in NA.

 

[Priller]

Why are they almost all renders? If these are things that I can easily buy, there should be actual video of them.

Because the video is pulled from ads. These cars exist, believe me, I hear about them regularly in the office when someone comes back from a visit to China.

 

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[MacDoc]

Disruption looms....

China's oldest carmaker begins testing solid-state EV batteries in vehicles

FAW Group, China’s oldest domestic auto brand, is the latest to announce it has begun testing solid-state EV batteries in...

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report from local media, Mydrivers, claims that FAW’s 66Ah battery cells achieve an energy density of 380 Wh/kg, well above that of traditional lithium-ion batteries, which range from 180 to 250 Wh/kg.

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