Are EVs rotting in fields in China?

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[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Here is another video about the same field shown in this video. It appears that the images shown are legit, but the link below is a response showing that these are not brand new cars, but actually well used in many cases. Still a waste, but the story told seems to have some major holes in it. Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3WboqR7rZl6Z5o

[@Ultimah]

My Toyota Corrola of 1991 is still Kicking!

[@Ultimah]

EV is like a Smart phone. Smart Phone are disposable gadget.

[@levelazn]

those cars are taxis bro. And it just a parking lot. don't believe anything that guy says.

[@ubacow7109]

@5:50 this issue extended to Gas cars as well, it wasnt just EV cars in china, Before all these Chinese car giants got big 30-40 years ago it used to be the same thing, in order to get government subsidies to show growth they would pump them out by the millions and at the time chinese citizens didnt have tons of money to blow on cars but having that rapid growth allowed the manufactures to scale quickly and 20-30 years later they became megagiants

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Hell yeah brother! Cockroach car never dies! lol thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@susancooper7701]

I have been watching their videos for 6-8 years. This IS information from someone who actually lived and worked in China for well over a decade. His wife is Chinese and her family still lives in China. He and a friend made hundreds of videos riding their motorcycles all over rural China from the South China Sea to Russia. Two of the most interesting videos from both of then are how they managed to escape the Chinese security services when they were told the police were going to arrest them. Many friends they made seem to be still getting current videos to them across the internet bans. If you can check the major ports of Europe there are tens of thousands of new EV sitting in parking lots.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

This is the first I've heard from him. It's really sad to see so much pointless waste. Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@jerryk6343]

This youtuber stole this video from serpentza youtuber who has 1.55 million followers...

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

It's called a reaction video. It's where you watch a video and react to it. Welcome to KZbin. Thanks for joining us.

[@realtissaye]

just a friendly reminder, might need to be careful of clips and information taken out of context if your only source are youtube channels. Serpentza and Laowhy86 often do this with their videos; if you'd like some examples I'd be happy to share

[@susancooper7701]

@@realtissaye AND CCP shills like you have to lick Xi shoes to keep working. At least Serpentza & Laowhy 86 have a VERY LONG proven career of producing accurate videos from their living there for more than a decade each.

[@stephengirling7859]

Not just in China. Here in the UK there are thousands of imported and unsold BYD electric cars sitting in compounds and dockyards on the south coast. Probably the same in europe.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

That is wild. Do they even try to sell them?

[@jamesplotkin4674]

@@TheKZbinMechanic The market for EV's has dropped significantly, so I'd expect orders will drop as sales are poor.

[@ogodei70]

PROOF?

[@mattshussett8063]

Winston is a good source. If you're using him as a starting point for facts about China you're on the right track. Liked and subscribed.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

I just watched it because he was talking about EVs. Thanks for watching!

[@johntheux9238]

Just natural selection. There are like 100 EV startups in China, only a handful will survive.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@daredoggo]

It's the same exact scheme as the ghost cities. This is well known.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

It's not well known to me. Drop a link about ghost cities and I'll check it out. Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@ubacow7109]

SSomething that i've been super sus about is that China keeps talking about how many EVs they're selling and adopting but when you go to china you realize that nobody owns an EV and if the think the Charging network situation is bad in the US its even worse in china, yet nobody ever talks about coverage of the chinese Charging networks. So until someone does a video showing chinese charging networks I'm going to continue to be sus about chinese EV markets. Glad your watching an OG discover china youtuber like SerpentZA.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Check the pinned comment. Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@mastiffmythslegendsandlore]

2004 g35 sedan still smoking BMWs

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Hell yeah brother! like and subscribe! Thanks for watching!

[@bobbadham261]

Didn't FB, YT n the like declare footage n coverage of rotting or exploding EVs was misinfo??

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

If you look at the pinned comment, this video I reacted to doesn't seem to tell the whole story. Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@jedics1]

Did you ever think that the reason they are sitting there is because of stupid laws like American tariffs? All the claims about Ev's being worse for the environment than gas cars are baseless or cherry picked by using the most stupid luxury behemoths possible. Most Ev's break even with the extra energy used to make them at under 50,000km, given some packs last for over 200,000km with million km batteries already in production you can see where Im going with this. Also they have the potential to run purely on sunlight which is kind of a big deal. I drive old toyotas exclusively also, until they start making sensible Ev's for mere mortal wallets....Which they could already be doing if the fossil fuel gravy train wasn't being protected.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Hey thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@saliman4874]

I bet batteries has been removed from those cars

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Probably not. It sounds like a lot of work. I wish they were though. I don't know too much about battery recycling, but I would feel a lot better knowing that a battery didn't just go to a landfill at the end of its service life.

[@wshyangify]

Needs a vehicle jack to get to the undercarriage too

[@brucerosner3547]

Schadenfreude just oozes out of the video. Communist China's economic rise to become the world's second largest economy (25Tn US, 18Tn China) triggers cognitive dissonance in many Western critics. These critics have been raised to believe Communion can not work so they can not believe China success is real so they constantly dig for problems in its economy. I see no big difference in China's economic difficulties from the typical business cycle of booms and busts in Capitalist systems. for example, US car prices have declined for many models with months if not years worth of new cars on dealers lots as well.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@zakisaacson2188]

I am not condoning what has been done here but, to be honest, there are only two such lots depicted here. Also, I would not have that much faith in the media to cover "crimes" such as this here in the West. We have no shortage of secrecy, deception, and cover-ups here. Still driving my 1999 Astro. 400,000kms and sounds like new, burns less gas than my 2015 Dodge Caravan on eco-mode.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

That's the best thing we can do for the enviroment in my opinion. Use what we have to it's fullest instead of using consumerism to virtue signal how we're saving the world. Also, if you look at the pinned comment, this video I reacted to doesn't seem to tell the whole story. Thanks for watching! Like and subscribe!

[@mfbinside]

You need to remember that consumer electronics still use more batteries than the car industry. So by your logic to stop the pollution we need to stop buying electronics also that use batteries. Because they are smaller you feel like It's less of an impact, but people change their phones, laptops etc, etc almost every 1 to 2 years and the old one goes to the landfill to pollute more. So we just need to get more serious about our waste. a car battery is much larger, but its used at least 5 to 10 years, and if we actually recycle, we can be much cleaner at the end of the day. Also, burning gas pollutes the air that we breathe.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Sounds about right. Thanks for watching. Like and subscribe!

[@ooortttr]

When you sold a EV you will get subsidy That's the big why.🤣 many of them is low price EV . if the real cost is $5000 but I use the market price to get the subsidy. That's No.1, No.2 is about these shared EV companys to lure the investment

[@atribuneandvisionsofkhmers6854]

Why are you stealing other KZbinrs' videos? This is from "The China Show"

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

It's called a reaction video. Welcome to KZbin, thanks for joining us.

[@smacdiesel]

You should make your own videos instead of replaying someone else's work.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

It's called a reaction video. Welcome to KZbin, thanks for joining us.

[@samyb2834]

He doing a commentary on a specific topic. How dumb are you?

[@JM-sz3to]

Isn't this guy just some anti-China basher. Any topic he can pick up on, he will try to knock China. Picking up on some story and putting it out to get some views

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

I don't think that's the vibe I was getting. People in the comments say his wife is Chinese so take that for what it's worth.

[@grayblow66]

Dealers don't want them anymore . currently looking for a new car and alot of the dealers won't touch them here in Ireland

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

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[@VerticalWTF]

Why the hell would you ask if those were fake seriously Guy where is your common sense

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

Do you not know about fake images? You just believe everything you see?

[@realtissaye]

For the sake of argument let's ignore photoshopped or AI generated content. Even then, many 'real' clips can be taken out of context and spun into a new truth. Having critical thinking online is a necessity nowadays no matter your political leaning. Isn't it perfectly reasonable to question what one sees?

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

It looks like anybody that watches this guy's videos doesn't actually think for themselves. Whether they like him or hate him, everybody that watches him and comes here to comment seems to be eating lead paint chips.

[@AAWT]

@@TheKZbinMechanic Actually, the ones not thinking for themselves are the ones who make such claims. I strongly doubt the anti-China KZbinrs would take the risks of having the Chinese government (which operates illegal "police stations" in foreign countries to deal with wanted nationals and other "enemies of China") as their enemy. The fact that China also does a lot of stupid things to "save face" is also known. 80% of the world's plastic in oceans comes from 2 rivers, one of them is in China. They don't give a damn about the environment, Beijing often has smog to the point of needing gas masks to walk outside. My brother lived there, I know what I'm talking about.

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

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