8 points cisc 1 hour ago 7 comments
rogerrogerr 1 hour ago | parent
Front tire just pulls one way or another; you don’t even have to be a decent driver to deal with it.
Rear tire would be more impressive, it’ll try to fishtail.
1970-01-01 48 minutes ago | parent
The headline is the story: A $10000 price tag for a ~200mi EV is more impressive than the blown tire story.
hungryhobbit 45 minutes ago | parent
Does it matter? It's like saying "we fireproofed 1 of 200 apartments in a building" ... well great, but you still can't sell that building until you fireproof the other 199.
Same issue here: no one in America can even buy these things (practically-speaking), let alone drive them legally in US streets until China starts building them to conform to US safety standards.
Until that happens, we're just seeing nifty demos of impressively cheap cars ... that are also (subtly) very dangerous.
eigenspace 35 minutes ago | parent
1 in 200 apartments in the building? You realize that the USA is one of the only car markets that has closed itself off to chinese cars, right?
BYD is the number 1 EV brand in the world currently by sales.
ethanbezz 8 minutes ago | parent
Perhaps they're just 'nifty demos' in the eyes of the US market, but in countries like Australia, where BYD is already the 2nd best selling car brand, they are very much not that.