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Continuing?? Most Chinese domestic market cars can't be sold in the west because they're to dangerous or polluting. I'm sure they're getting stricter on both fr
by foxglacier 24d ago
Continuing?? Most Chinese domestic market cars can't be sold in the west because they're to dangerous or polluting. I'm sure they're getting stricter on both fronts but they're still behind developed countries.
- runako 24d ago> dangerous or polluting IIRC more than half of cars sold in China are EV or PHEV. I am receptive to learn that there are PHEVs that are too polluting to be sold in the west, but I would love to see the data.
- rsynnott 24d agoThere'd be lots of PHEVs which don't meet Euro 7. I doubt anyone is bothering to try to meet it for anything not sold in Europe.
- runako 24d agoI'm sure even some companies who plan to sell in the EU will have to update their models to address regulations that haven't taken effect yet.
- rsynnott 23d agoEuro 7 takes effect in a couple of months. For practical purposes, that means that anything on sale in Europe already has to comply; no-one’s going to launch a car on the basis that any they don’t sell by November become a waste product.
- runako 23d agoIsn't it true that Euro 7 starts taking effect in a few months, but doesn't cover most cars until late next year?
- nxpnsv 24d agoThey’re pretty much dominating new electric cars in a lot of places now
- victorbjorklund 24d agoSeems like old information. Pretty sure most new Chinese cards are electric.
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- protocolture 24d agoYeah so in like 2014 you would see chinese EV's mostly when they caught fire, exploded, or their batteries died in like 20 minutes. The thing was, that the chinese government really sort of accepted that outcome as they wanted to brute force EV tech into existence. Nowadays, Chinese EV's are easily at parity. Better than parity if you consider the price and standard features. They have heaps of export quality cars. So yeah, continuing feels right. I don't know if the policy worked, or if their car market would have caught up anyway, but they knew what they want, and got it.
- defrost 24d agoShades of I. Y. Yunioshi's Asian roundup.
- RichardLake 24d agoThe current top three auto-makers by sales in Australia are Toyota, BYD, then Ford. They might not have quite the same market penetration in Europe but BYD vehicles are sold there, and some have 5 star safety ratings.
- foxglacier 18d agoI'm talking about cars made for the Chinese domestic market, not made for the Australian market. Remember the point here is that China is super reasonable about safety in its domestic cars compared to the US.