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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Chinese EVs are very dangerous because of low quality standards. There are plenty of videos with batteries catching fire and the EVs burning up in the middle of the road.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are tons of those videos from Teslas.... so unless you have a legit source showing Chinese EVs are more dangerous than Tesla's, your comment is nothing but an annecdote

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] derpgon 1 points 1 month ago

This is also not true.

[–] LeFantome 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Canada can set safety standards however they want. Chinese EVs are available elsewhere, like Australia. Are they catching fire there?

Or is there one video in China where these vehicles already sell in huge numbers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

and australia is very hot too, which makes batteries prone to heating up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are plenty of videos of gasoline cars burning too. Turns out packing a shitload of energy into a small volume is dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also people underestimate how often ICE cars combust (they are still rare enough that it is likely you never encounter one yourself, but there are A LOT OF CARS that make it happens quite frequently), they are just common enough to not get reported if no one got injured from it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your opinions on the Cyber truck? (An American EV that is very dangerous because of low quality standards)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Those have design issues like rust (stainless steel rusting is a bit odd).