• Wilco@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      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?

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        3 days ago

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

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      4 days ago

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

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        3 days 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