• Freefall@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Chinese EV sounds terrifying. I am sure the specific cars they sent for safety testing were well made and passed just fine, but I wouldn’t get into their production run vehicles.

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      3 months ago

      Nah, these are the exact standards US/euro cars are tested by, tested annually from regular production, not specially chosen cars.

      Besides, it isn’t like American or European companies didn’t make production line cars that literally blew up if they rear-ended someone.

      So far the manufacturing of exported Chinese EVs is doing very well, and each product is tested upon import anyway to make sure it conforms to the regulations of that country.

      Tanking a potential market like this for the Chinese doesn’t make any sense right now, at least outside of their country it makes the most corporate and political sense to do what they’re doing and exceed European and American auto safety standards.

      You should be more concerned about privacy invasion from the smart tech rather than the physical safety of the vehicles.

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      3 months ago

      Who do you think manufactures basically everything at this point? Even frickin food is being imported from China.

      That being said I’d love for American competition, heck I’d just like the Elio I always wanted if it wasn’t for fricking Hummer. And Teslas have been built like garbage for the past couple years now.

      It being manufactured in China does not make it a quality issue unless the profit seeking is maxed out. Otherwise it just makes it like everything else being made over there which is it’s own problem.