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schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 months ago

I drove three Chinese cars — here’s why they would clean up in the US

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I drove three Chinese cars — here’s why they would clean up in the US

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schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 months ago
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  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    Do they have OTA updates and giant touch screens and weird gimmicky features that will be prohibitive to fix like every other modern car?

    If so I don’t want one.

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      Indeed they do. It’s like the entire Chinese EV industry looked at Tesla and thought “let’s do that, but cram in even more tech features and online connectivity”.

      I’m not a fan, either.

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      Sounds like you’re the target demographic for the Slate truck. Seriously, it’s like you are the exact center of their product audience Venn diagram.

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      Almost everyone I know could absolutely use a small electric vehicle with under 100mi range, since almost nobody I know travels more than 100mi/dayor needs anything other than personal, usually individual transport. The obvious solution is public transit, but we all know how much the US likes to invest in infrastructure…

      This has been true since the 70s, and there have been many attempts at making vehicles like this commercially viable but none have succeeded.

      Turns out that while people may only need 30 miles of range and individual transport, they want a car that can do more than that.

      And that “more” is apparently touch screens and impossibility of repair.

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    I want one without any sort of connectivity. I don’t even care if it has a radio. I just want it to go highway speed and carry like 4 people.

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    They’re better and cheaper than the junk we have to buy.

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    What is this trash? An ad tossed into some articles?

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      Yeah that’s corporate media for you

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