@[email protected] to World NewsEnglish • 3 months agoOctober 4 is the day the EU decides how expensive to make Chinese EVsm.arenaev.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: world
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Similar to America, Europe is also artificially trying to make consumers choose native cars, by making Chinese ones more expensive.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•3 months agoCheap stuff is often the same as expensive stuff without the markup. Shit, often cheap stuff is outright better.
minus-squareMonsterMonsterlinkEnglish4•3 months agoAgreed. Expensive products are far from any guarantee of good quality. Cookers are a good example. The expensive ones invariably have identical components to the cheaper models such as the energy regulators or thermocouples.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoExcept when it explodes or dangerously malfunctions (which seems to happen a lot to chinese EVs) lmao
Cheap stuff is often the same as expensive stuff without the markup.
Shit, often cheap stuff is outright better.
Agreed.
Expensive products are far from any guarantee of good quality. Cookers are a good example. The expensive ones invariably have identical components to the cheaper models such as the energy regulators or thermocouples.
Except when it explodes or dangerously malfunctions (which seems to happen a lot to chinese EVs) lmao