@[email protected] to World NewsEnglish • 9 hours agoOctober 4 is the day the EU decides how expensive to make Chinese EVsm.arenaev.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-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]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 hours agoCheap stuff is often the same as expensive stuff without the markup. Shit, often cheap stuff is outright better.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 hours agoExcept when it explodes or dangerously malfunctions (which seems to happen a lot to chinese EVs) lmao
minus-squareMonsterMonsterlinkEnglish3•8 hours 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.
Cheap stuff is often the same as expensive stuff without the markup.
Shit, often cheap stuff is outright better.
Except when it explodes or dangerously malfunctions (which seems to happen a lot to chinese EVs) lmao
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.