America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.

Probably not a well received opinion but the amount of China promoting drivel that goes on here in lemmy is astounding.

Which is the propaganda? The posts touting Chinese achievements in tech, or the posts saying to beware of the Chinese milestones?

Both.

I mostly agree with your statement and we should be aware of both.

Agree. Tankies are on the loose, and not just on their own servers

Eh, I’ve seen all these same headlines on Hacker News. China is a rapidly developing country with a lot more people, manufacturing, advancements, and news than many other countries so it makes sense that there would be a lot of news coming out of it.

I just visited China for the first time during a business trip a few weeks ago and as an American I was impressed. The US media tries so hard to present only the negative that a lot of Americans aren’t even aware of all the achievements they’ve accomplished.

They were just complaining about how much pro-China stuff is posted here and you’re replying with this lol

Like most Chinese products I wouldn’t trust their quality or their customer support, and would expect the thing to spy on me 24/7.

I plan to rip out the power to internet in any future car I get. Cars shouldn’t have to connect to the internet

You do realise that anything made in the USA or even sold to be used in the western world has the CIA sucking it all up.

Like sure China are gonna spy but let’s not pretend the USA, UK, Australia, and Israel ain’t spying on us all.

So, basically no different than we already have…

So why hail them as some revolutionary?

What, modern cars and almost everything else? Who’s hailing general enshitification and literally everything we do being consumed as monetizable data points as “revolutionary”?

The Ora Funky Cat had an issue where it would not terminate charging consistently before unlocking the charging cable, leading to customers being greeted by a loud bang when disconnecting the cable.

On the bright side, if they weren’t completely awake before, they would be afterwards.

In my experience, Chinese products are way better and more affordable than American ones.

Buying American is just a scam to fool people with more money than sense.

Mark Twain was right.

You must not use Amazon.

I was specifically thinking about products I got on Amazon.

Headphones, especially. It really cemented in my mind that most “audiophiles” are just idiots with more money than sense trying to fit in with the same.

I wonder if the MFs who complain about Chinese stuff really thought their phone is made in Finland… LMAO…

In my experience, you’re wrong.

That’s fine.

Spend your money how you want.

I want a car without spyware.

Even American cars have spyware. Not sure what your choice is there. At this point, I’ll settle for cars with physical buttons for climate and other commonly used controls.

Even American cats have spyware.

And they have since the 1960’s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

That typo was totally worth learning about this

I want a small, fun roadster. Or a hot hatch. Or a sport wagon. And I didn’t see one listed.

An e-civic would be phenomenal…

Tweak the motors to simulate vtech!

Toyota had a concept EV that simulates a manual transmission (including “stalling,” coasting, and “engine braking”), that it showed off last year to some journalists. People who drove it say it’s a ton of fun.

If someone makes an electric equivalent to the Pontiac Fiero I’m getting a drivers license. Small, cheap, fun.

Hell yeah. Or an MR2. Or an S2000.

Carice? Harks back to the small British sports car.

A Mitsubishi Legnum Electric would be an instant buy for me.

I‘m just waiting on the release of the german X-Bus. A modular 600kg vehicle that counts as a quad and can be used as a bus/transporter/pickup/camper and recharges 30-50km of range a day through solar energy on the roof for under 20k€ is exactly what I want from an EV. I don’t need a 50k price tag with shiny smart features.

I’ve just been looking at those. I can’t help but think of the old adage, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is

it basically falls under the vehicle classification of tricycles and golf carts, so the safety standards are, shall we say, more lenient

I would prefer better crashworthiness though

I hope they do better than expected, sadly the lower standards also the downside of their classification. But I think they commited to doing crash tests and also build in ESP by defaultc so at least the basics will be there.

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