Well here I am currently watching the 2023 Guangzhou Autoshow on youtube and I am amazed at the quality of the evs at the show. I am also in awe how fast China is electrifying their auto fleet.
BYD surpassed Ford in total sales earlier this year and they only sold 500,000 car in 2019. BYD also said this: demolish the old legends
BYD, Xpeng, Nio, MG, Geely, GAC are all expanding rapidly into South America, Europe and South East Asia.
These companies are topping the sales charts in the South East Asian markets.
Kia Australia boss says Chinese car brands will be in top five shortly.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/chinese-car-brands-top-five-within-three-years/
I’m kind of concerned for our current auto brands dragging their feet.
At least in the US, it will take quite a while for our consumers to accept a Chinese made vehicle, let alone EVs. We are a bit slow to adapt unless something earth shattering happens like $12 gas or a world war.
Better to just say that the US is pretty staunchly anti-Chinese, due to the competition for hegemony. Europe, SA, etc do not care so much as they are more globalized so things are more quick to catch on.
Nah, they’re already accepted. They’ll just sell them under familiar brand names at larger scales than they already do.
I’m looking forward to seeing how many more Chinese made vehicles are in the driveway at the in-laws on Thursday in addition to the Chinese-made Volvo and Buick that were there last year.
Yeah coz people in that country are always shitting on literally every car when the cars they’re seeing are not Japanese.