How Many EVs Can I Find on a Walk in China? | The Ever-Changing Chinese EV Market

Embark on a thrilling exploration into the epicenter of the global electric vehicle (EV) revolution, right here in the vibrant heart of Yangzhou, China. Unlike our previous journey, this time we're diving into the bustling streets of the city center, where the pulse of innovation beats louder and the array of EVs is more diverse than ever before.
As the specter of a 100 percent tariff on Chinese EVs in the USA hangs ominously, the fate of these groundbreaking vehicles on the international stage remains uncertain.
Join me as we navigate through the lively streets of Yangzhou, a dynamic third-tier city nestled in Jiangsu Province, just a stone's throw away from the bustling metropolis of Shanghai. Here, amidst the hustle and bustle, we'll uncover the sheer magnitude of the thriving EV market.
From the towering presence of Chinese EV titans like BYD, Nio, Xpeng, and SAIC, to the enduring innovation of Tesla, the landscape is alive with possibility and innovation.
In this captivating video, I'll be your guide through an abundance of electrifying EV models, including the sleek BYD Seagull, the compact yet powerful Baojun E300, the futuristic Nio ET5 and ET7, the sleek and tech-savvy Xpeng P7, and a myriad of others not seen in our previous adventure. Witness firsthand how China's EV industry continues to outpace its counterparts across the globe, presenting a formidable challenge to traditional automakers.
While American car manufacturers grapple with the challenge of producing competitive EVs, China's dominance in the market looms large, threatening to reshape the future of transportation as we know it.
Don't miss out on this exclusive peek into the thriving EV scene of China, a testament to the nation's unwavering commitment to sustainable mobility. Subscribe now to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the EV revolution! 🚗⚡
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[@jkdm27]

I can’t believe we can’t get those EVs here in America. It’s just a shame that politics is screwing us up.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Totally agree. They are screwing the American people in order to help the big three automakers. This will for sure increase inflation as more higher priced EVs made in America will be available besides Tesla who will be able to produce lower priced EVs at a profit. It will also slow down the US’s transition to EVs which sucks. Competition would push US automakers to make better products. All this is going to do is make sure that they survive and produce far lower quality EVs very slowly. China will walk away with the vast majority of the global market.

[@cwd5736]

Lots of Americans move to China for a better lives, cos USA businessmans are selling low quality products for a high price. They only care about their profits and shares, not customers sadly

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@cwd5736 I don't know if it's lots lol. If it is lots I haven't seen them. There are Americans here, but there are very few overall.

[@GaminGiga]

​@@xiaoandmattyeah but the thing is if US doesn't protect its own car industry, it will be a disaster for US and many many Americans will lost their jobs.

[@robertbidochon7949]

@jkdm27 don't worry! it's the exact same thing here in France: 33k€ for a tiny little R5 with just 250kms of range ! Our politics don't want cheap and well made ev cars here neither !

[@cogniktive1147]

You did a commendable job recognizing and naming the models man! It’s not easy with the dozens of models from dozens of China makes and brands. Most of them make the Tesla look pedestrian

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks man! Yeah I am getting better. Haha

[@3d4fun96]

Feel the same way you do.

[@zhangzhenyu1127]

但是到目前为止特斯拉model Y依然是中国市场销量最好的新能源车。

[@juliozandamela]

​@@zhangzhenyu1127não, a BYD é que teve mais vendas. Eu em particular prefiro os carros da BYD, são mais bonitos, têm melhor acabamento e, claro, mais baratos. Nos grupos do Facebook que eu estou todos também preferem carros da BYD

[@yzhang9265]

China is serious (and capable) about their carbon peak and carbon neutral target - all the solar, wind, hydro, nuclear power station annual installation and EV cars sales is more than 50% of the total annual car sales (24+ millions) - 1st time overtake ICE cars.

[@robertbidochon7949]

car spotting videos of every day cars are the best automotive vids on YT to see the real evolution in the car industry :) thank you Matt

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks for the comment Robert! I didn’t realize that these videos would get so many views. If I knew that people enjoyed them so much I would have started making them back in 2020.

[@passby8070]

7:34 Love the Zeekr, hopefully they will bring it here to Australia with their Volvo network. Would seriously consider it when it gets here.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah it is a nice car.

[@amandagrant4331]

15:46 white car is "dongfeng"

[@xiaoandmatt]

Okay thanks! I will try and remember!

[@carbusiness2585]

Green license plate could be used for EV only and costs little, while the blue plate could be used for both but costs a lot if money. In case you have paid a lot money to acquire a blue plate years ago (in big cities) for your gas car, when you bought a new EV and sold the old one, you can keep the blue plate as an asset to put on your new EV.

[@TimwongTimwong]

This is the world of electric car s

[@xiaoandmatt]

It’s like living in the future!

[@YehWincent]

I thought EV and/or Hybrid will take over the world car market quickly. But I realized that it's not going to happen because most countries simply do not have the infrastructure to support ICE to EV conversion. EV owners will not have range anxiety if there are enough charging stations. Only few countries have built enough charging station, while this is not happening in many other countries.

[@xiaoandmatt]

It is going to take some time for sure and add to what you said the fact that all the big auto companies don’t want to transition and are helping to fund and spread a lot of lies about EVs in the media. I think once there is ample infrastructure and the price of EVs drops a lot, it will begin to accelerate the transition.

[@amandagrant4331]

For countries that lack oil, this transformation will not be difficult. In the new car sales in Nepal, EV has occupied 60%. Nepal has the simplest charging stations in the world, but these charging stations are still effective.

[@_zhangjie]

5:20，Tesla's blue license plate is because when it was imported into China in the early years, China hadn't yet introduced a new energy license plate, so it was blue. It can apply to change the license plate to green or change it to green when the car is traded.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks for the comment and information!

[@kidyhe2223]

the blue license plate tesla model s was registered before the new energy policy (green license plate), so it has a blue plate

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks for the comment!

[@MrJohnson088]

Buzz lightyear saves woody I bet the owner put it there on purpose.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Obviously lol. I wasn’t suggesting that strangers were walking around putting Toy Story characters on other peoples’ cars. That would be funny though.

[@MrJohnson088]

@@xiaoandmatt This cost is not cheap, I think only car owners will do it. Because if I were the car owner, I would definitely confiscate it.🤭

[@bobbyus]

Oh that is interesting that they can distinguish between BEV and PHEV based on the license plate. Man China is so ahead of the rest of the world. Amazing how the tables have turned…

[@GS-lf4rk]

I think it’s more about the shape of front grill. If it’s hollow with green plate. PHEV. If it’s not, EV.

[@xiaoandmatt]

The EV market here is years and years ahead.

[@台独的老父亲]

你说的有道理​@@GS-lf4rk

[@trendingviews4086]

China is now producer of best car in the world.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Which is your favorite?

[@philipc239]

2:31 it's an EV Avatr 12 my favorite ❤

[@xiaoandmatt]

Very nice looking car.

[@slaw2224]

It sure looks cool

[@williamxk5108]

​@@xiaoandmatt HUAWEI tech inside

[@randomf4ke]

it looks like its right off the assembly line, so new.

[@grid-panda]

The Tesla model S with the blue license plate was registered before the use of green license plates in China and cost more than $120K at the time.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Interesting. Thanks!

[@dionydonny]

@@xiaoandmatt In some cities that require a lottery to get a license plate, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, if you get a regular license plate from the lottery, you can also choose to attach it to an EV. That was the case in the past, and I'm not sure if it's changed now: all of China's policies are adapted and changed according to the actual situation.

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@dionydonny It is was more complicated than I realized. Thanks for the comment!

[@yanbolyb]

yeah old money

[@yanbolyb]

@@dionydonny and when you sell you current BEV/PHEV and buy next car, it still can be ICE, only when your original plate is ICE type.

[@smash_27]

the black amazing ev car is the Changan Huawei avatr 12. it looks great at the front

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah that is a very cool looking car!

[@smash_27]

@@xiaoandmatt u should check out this car at showroom. it's more than a car. a gadget car

[@smash_27]

I really love this avatr12

[@KennethWong-u7p]

One of the cheapest EV in China is the Wuling series starting like $5000 US dollars, it is affordable for many citizens, everyone has a chance to own a car instead of only taking bikes.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah they are crazy cheap and tiny.

[@xiaoandmatt]

@evisonliao8802 yeah they work well for city driving and for the price you can’t beat it.

[@yanbolyb]

not the traditional bikes. electric scooters are quite cheap and convenient. now China is booming in racing road bicycle market, as well as the associated bike part industry.

[@tren133]

Enjoyed your second video! That sleek black one at the beginning you didn't recognize as well as the nearly as sleek green and white car you saw later are all Changan products. Changan has developed different brands just for their EVs. Lowest tier is the Lumin, which are all those little Lumin Corns you saw. The middle mainstream tier is called Deepal, which is the green/white ones you saw, the Deepal SL03. Now there is a crossover version too, the Deepal S7. The SL03 is not only got a good price, but it is also very practical because it is a true liftback, unlike all these sedans such as Model 3, Aion S, Xpeng P7 etc, which are not as practical. And finally the sleek black one is from Changan's premium brand, Avatr. You may have noticed that one of Changan's strength is styling, and that the Lumin, the Deepal, and especially the Avatr, are all very good looking. But the Avatr brand goes beyond that and is sort of like the best of all worlds, because it is a 3 way joint venture between Changan, CATL, and Huawei. So Changan provides the styling and car building expertise, CATL, the leading battery maker on the planet, provides the battery of course, and Huawei provides their world class infotainment stack and autonomous driving tech. The Avatrs are not cheap, but they are very nice cars. Changan also illustrates the inversion of the relationship between Chinese domestic carmakers and foreign carmakers. Once upon a time, every major international car maker came to China to exploit its untapped market, and in return the Chinese government made them form joint ventures with various domestic carmakers, so that over time the domestic carmakers can learn how to build competitive cars. So everyone got paired off, GM with SAIC, Toyota with GAC, VW with SAIC and FAW, etc. Changan was paired with Ford and later Mazda, and for many years Ford and Mazda designed the cars they wanted to sell in China, and it was Changan's job to manufacture those foreign designed cars. Now in the 2020s, Changan's own branded cars are very nice looking, as you might have noticed, and Changan has pivoted to EVs far faster than its JV partners. Avatr and Deepal are far more competitive than Ford's EV offerings in China, and Mazda is so behind that its new EV, the just revealed EZ-6, is just a Deepal SL03 (the ones you saw on the street) with some minor styling tweaks and a Mazda badge on the front. In 20 years Changan went from assembling Mazdas designed in Japan to now Mazda having to come in and badge engineer a Changan product to sell under their own brand because Mazda's own EV tech is woefully behind. Mazda might be forced out of the Chinese market altogether soon, but Changan has set itself up to succeed for the future electrified car market.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Awesome comment! Again thanks for all the information! I will try and remember what those cars were so I can identify them in future videos!

[@xiaoandmatt]

Where do you live?

[@tren133]

@@xiaoandmatt I live in the US, but because I know Chinese, I started checking out all the Chinese language content on Chinese market cars over the past few years, and I had no idea Chinese carmakers have made so much progress recently, especially on EVs. Kind of makes sense why the US is throwing up that giant 100% tariff against Chinese vehicles. "Overcapacity" is their reason, but the Chinese carmakers have been capable of overcapacity for like 15 years, so why is the US only now panicking? All the overcapacity in the world is meaningless if Chinese cars are not competitive against western carmakers. But now that they ARE competitive, the overcapacity gives them economies of scale which the west cannot match. Will be interesting to see the developments in the Chinese market in the coming years. Probably they will start consolidation around maybe 10 major carmakers such as BYD, Geely, SAIC, Changan, GAC etc, who will then each have even more resources at their disposal. If the US is worried about China Auto Inc now, they are going to be in even deeper trouble with post-consolidation China Auto.

[@chengjiang5574]

@@tren133 Hello, you have a very clear understanding of China's new energy vehicle market, at least the most comprehensive I've seen on KZbin so far. The consolidation of automakers you mentioned will start soon, but you forgot a very competitive brand "HIMA", an automotive alliance set up by Huawei, this alliance is now very dominant in China's premium automotive market. The AITO M9 is already the highest-selling car in the Chinese market among luxury brands above 500,000 yuan.

[@StevenMartin-x8l]

04:33 Didn't see that one coming. Dude speaks really good Chinese

[@honesty_-no9he]

CHERY are expanding big time in Latin America.

[@xiaoandmatt]

How were their sales there last quarter?

[@honesty_-no9he]

@@xiaoandmatt Like BYD they are in the process of building new factories in the Americas so the deluge is yet to come.

[@cogniktive1147]

I saw a few Chinese makes in South America (south Brazil, Uruguay etc region) including Chery in late 2021. Not very many actual cars on the roads but it looked like they were a relatively new presence in the market. They had fairly new looking dealerships, and I actually came across a few of their distribution lots near the port in Montevideo. Pretty damn cool. They must be kicking ass now

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@cogniktive1147 This is what the world needs to really transition to EVs.

[@amandagrant4331]

In 2023, Chery sold 31,479 vehicles in Brazil and BYD sold 17,938 vehicles in Brazil. In April 2024, Chery sold 6,458 vehicles in Brazil; BYD sold 6,965 vehicles in Brazil. Chery sells not only EV but also ICE in Brazil. BYD sells EV and PHEV in Brazil.

[@yzhang9265]

If you have tested Chinese EVs you will know why they are not 'cheap' but affordable and good value - there are expensive one with luxury and with cheap ones you get better range and feature comparing to the same price EVs from Germany, Japan, Korea, America.

[@xiaoandmatt]

I agree. Chinese EVs are very good cars.

[@andreass.3444]

Very interesting! I like this video, to dive in everyday life on China's streets to study the diversity of the chinese EVs, very impressive.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thank you! I am happy so many people find these videos interesting!

[@travilpowell4086]

@2:29 the car is an Avatr 12

[@cogniktive1147]

Very nice looking ride

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks! I’ll try and remember that!

[@aghs2169]

@@xiaoandmatt No back window, no mirrors, fully digital rear/side cameras

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@aghs2169 High-tech!

[@raygan777able]

From Huawei?

[@LaowaiDaveJCP]

Yangzhou is a third category city even inside Jiangsu province first is Nanjing the capital then comes Suzhou, Wuxi type cities then even Zhenjiang right on the otherside of yangtze river is one step ahead of Yangzhou with HSR & all but still it has many EVs & that's mind boggling. All these roads makes me so nostalgic as someone graduated from YZU

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah Yangzhou is for sure behind in EV numbers compared to Nanjing. We actually live in Nanjing and will be moving back there soon so I will make more videos there. I would say Nanjing had EV numbers like what we are seeing in Yangzhou now back in 2022.

[@wg9830]

EV cars have green number plates, while gas combustion engine cars have blue number plates

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks!

[@xiaoyang9758]

@@xiaoandmatt green plates with first word F mean that car is plug-in hybrids with over 50km pure EV range , pure EV first word can be D or A , hybrids that can't charge and pure ev rang under 50km got blue plates .

[@robertbidochon7949]

@@xiaoyang9758 why is the model S have blue plates?

[@BTSX7274]

@@robertbidochon7949 It was the old Model S, and at that time there was no green plate

[@3d4fun96]

Very easy to recognize.

[@LYW-su3ol]

there are quite a number of NIO ET5 there, that's for sure one of the best looking cars

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@honesty_-no9heWhich ones did I misidentify as the ET5?

[@LYW-su3ol]

​@@honesty_-no9he there are at least 5 in this video

[@honesty_-no9he]

@@LYW-su3ol Yes. It was a nothing comment. Deleted.

[@honesty_-no9he]

@@xiaoandmatt Th problem with watching cars on a main road is they fly by too fast.

[@elainelee2491]

Hoping NIO comes to the US.

[@侯嘉琪-t8s]

廣西省柳州市，差不多有5成的電動車。看過去整條街幾乎都是可愛的電動車。歡迎你去柳州市。😊

[@xiaoandmatt]

好的👌！

[@LW78321]

There are sooo many EVs in China! In Melbourne, we've only got BYD, Tesla, Volvo, polestar, MG, and kia

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah it’s a different world in China for sure.

[@emericksit8681]

It is because many Chinese EV Co. have not yet make the right hand drive models.

[@LW78321]

@@emericksit8681 that's a good point

[@jaoolai5299]

EV market competition is insane there, i would say only 5-6 Chinese EV Brand could make it to the end in this kind of competitive environment!!

[@Marty-o5o]

There are 4 Chinese brands and 5 Chinese made brands inside😂

[@UKkenny]

@2:31 avatr 12 @6:18 neta U @11:25 chery eQ1 small ant @12:46 i think its another neta ...im a bit surprised there were no xpeng G9 or X9 ..

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thank you! I will write these down so I know! Yeah I know I didn’t see any in this video. I saw a few G9s in the last video I think.

[@mikeli9942]

For the Model S , perhaps the owner already paid for a license plate ? He/ She can transfer the plate to Tesla EV . In Shanghai an ICE license plate can cost a lot of money , and it is good for life .

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah possibly. Your guess is as good as mine.

[@middlekingdomproductions]

another great video! 👍 So many EV's! The EV's in this video I definitely see more often in Nanjing than the smaller EV's in your last video. You spotted my car this time too, the Ora Good Cat!

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks Adam! Yeah not many of those 老头乐 cars in Yangzhou proper!

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah I like your car! Very cool looking vehicle!

[@middlekingdomproductions]

@@xiaoandmattyeah it’s been a good car to drive. There are newer models now which look better and are faster for a similar price.

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@middlekingdomproductions Innovation is happening quickly with these EVs.

[@middlekingdomproductions]

@@xiaoandmatt yeah it’s cool to see and at these price points even the poorest people who can afford cars will be buying an EV when the time comes to replace their car.

[@leeharold9030]

you should go to Liuzhou, Guangxi. The city of 4 million is the effective capital of the biggest EV market in the world. 🎉

[@amandagrant4331]

Liuzhou has the factory of Wuling

[@xiaoandmatt]

Good idea! Thanks!

[@扬孙-o2l]

OMG Your Mandarin is amezing

[@zhli4238]

Elon Musk said he didn’t ask for Chinese EV bans in the US. He may have a point, since Chinese EVs did not destroy Tesla in China. Then how could Chinese EVs destroy Tesla in America?

[@xiaoandmatt]

No one is worried that the Chinese companies will destroy Tesla in America. They are worried the Chinese companies will destroy the big three auto companies in America. To be fair the US government would probably block Tesla if it wasn’t an American company because Tesla is a real threat to the other US car companies as well. Tesla alone cannot produce the volume of cars needed to crush all the US car companies, but with the Chinese companies, there would be enough cars to crush them.

[@directxxxx71]

The legacy auto makers

[@AzYet0416]

Yes, but tesla is losing market share and the premium brand image in China recent 2-3 years, tesla need publish more car models with more innovations. Anyway competition is a good thing for China, tesla and consumer.

[@EduruChan]

@@AzYet0416eIon is Iying…

[@I_dont_want_an_at]

it's very hard to keep up with all the brands in China!

[@LetsGo-zj9tq]

Wow, seems soon will be embarrassed driving a non-EV in Yangzhou

[@xiaoandmatt]

In 5 years or so I think.

[@LetsGo-zj9tq]

@@xiaoandmatt Some EVs look really elegant and attractive

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@LetsGo-zj9tq yeah there are some weird ones. Haha

[@LetsGo-zj9tq]

@@xiaoandmatt Btw, Aito is from Huawei and the black one with two Chinese characters on the back is HongQi (Red Flag) which I've test-drive one of its models last year, not bad at all.

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@LetsGo-zj9tq okay cool. Thanks! Have you driven any of the Aitos?

[@theolich4384]

6:45 BAIC Arcfox Alpha-T, Fisker Ocean's Chinese brother, as it's Magna Blue Sky, the joint venture between BAIC and Magna, that Fisker signed a technology sharing agreement with. Unlike Fisker, BAIC had no trouble mass producing them (in Zhenjiang, the city right next to Yangzhou cross the Yangtze), just that they don't appear as compelling among the Chinese competitors as the Ocean does in the US. The only way out for Fisker, if there ever was one, was to make the Ocean in China (more like rebadging the Arcfox). Yet even that isn't feasible in the current climate.

[@Darkmatter321]

I'm fully supportive of the 100% tariff on Chinese EVS. Otherwise who would buy the garbage our auto makers spit out?

[@xiaoandmatt]

Haha. That is a good point.

[@yaoypl]

Yep, protectionism protects losers.

[@EduruChan]

@serriajohn america is controIIed by zl0nlst

[@azmanabas8425]

Zeekr one looks cool

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah they are very cool!

[@hz240]

Thanks to bidet 100% tariff will be imposed on chinese ev imports to protect domestic automakers.

[@hengongchua6250]

China should also impose 120% tariff on all foreign cars so that the price is too expensive and everyone will buy local EVs at just 30% of what foreign car prices are.

[@isoboy2125]

It's protecting corporate greed so they can plunder Americans and do stock buybacks. 🙃

[@bilduquette9371]

The tariffs are there because US automakers can't compete with China's technology on EVs

[@jimmielin1141]

It’s just gonna slow down the EV progress in US or it just might just kill the legacy car industry. Just look at the solar panels during Obama era when he put sanctions on Chinese solar panel companies and somehow it killed the American’s solar industry. America was leading in the solar industry before Obama slapped sanctions on Chinese solar industry.

[@tomasabell3994]

​@@hengongchua6250 Chinese like competition, China is an open market!

[@theolich4384]

7:47 Asiastar ("亚星") buses are homegrown in the city of Yangzhou. One of China's oldest and most prolific bus makers, it was outcompeted by rivals like Yutong and Golden Dragon and went into steady decline in the 2000s. These days they're still built locally, but are really owned by Weichai Power, a leading manufacturer of engines and machineries, which is controlled by the northern province of Shandong. Note that even as a skeleton of its former self, Asiastar was able to develop a few BEV buses to be ran by Yangzhou municipal services. Quite a feat if you think about it.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Wow! Awesome information! Thank you so much!

[@bomiwick1695]

Cool

[@greenbug3335]

Go China, show how it's done.

[@skywire5595]

China EV cars are very competitive there and many models unheard of . Won't be long China may reach carbon neutrality

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah, I know. There are so many! That is why I want to walk around and see what I find and share it here on KZbin.

[@lovefromhuang]

扬州😅太可怕了，上次去了，全是电瓶车到处窜，这辈子都没见过这么多电瓶车，吓死我了

[@xiaoandmatt]

哈哈。你住在什么城市？ 电瓶车不多吗？

[@lovefromhuang]

@@xiaoandmatt 我在江阴，电瓶车也多，但是没有扬州那么多那么乱。扬州多得有点像东南亚摩托车的那种浩浩荡荡的感觉🤓

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@lovefromhuang 哈哈，我没有意识到扬州的电瓶车情况那么乱，可能是我已经习惯了。

[@lovefromhuang]

@@xiaoandmatt 你肯定没有长期待过别的中国城市。 不过扬州这种情况也能理解，老市区都是老房子，还都是保护的房子不能拆，所以道路拓宽不了

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@lovefromhuang 我从2013年到2014年住在天津，从2014年到2023年住在南京, 所以我理解其他的城市的情况。我个人没注意到扬州有什么不同，但是并不意味着问题不存在。

[@neohsoonpeng8820]

Love your video ❤ frm Malaysia

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thank you for the comment and happy you enjoyed this video!

[@philipc239]

12:40 Deepal SL03 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepal_SL03

[@futo]

I saw two different vlogger , one European couple who went to I believe Chongqing and the other group of guys who went to Shanghai, they were astonish how very little noise there is, road was eerily devoid of engine noise. Really wonder is it almost half of the cars on the road in all China's big cities

[@jimmielin1141]

Buses are all running on electricity too

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah in areas of Shanghai the number of EVs is way more than 50 percent now. The only thing you hear on the roads is a lot of honking. lol

[@frontline324]

@@xiaoandmattsame as Guangzhou. l live here

[@支預]

@@xiaoandmatt

[@treg9492]

Quite evident from this video that there is 30-40% ev penetration. If looking at NEV kilometers driven v gas, its probably up to 70% as most taxis, ride share and ev owners are driving more as opposed to gas cars which tend to sit at parking lots more often.

[@amandagrant4331]

If have both EV and ICE at home, most people will choose to drive EV because it saves much money.

[@ganwuzi]

Shenzhen has more than half of its new energy vehicles

[@KinLee919]

5:18 that Tesla don't have a green license plate because it was purchased before 2016, green license plate was introduced in 2016, so EVs purchased before 2016 still have a normal blue license plate.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Oh okay! Thanks!

[@morgan4643]

The blue plate Tesla is one of the first Teslas in China before the implementation of the green plate rule. So if the owner bought it brand new, not a second-hand, then that motherf***er is RICH! I believe it used to cost nearly a million yuan.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Damn! That was a crazy expensive car back then.

[@正腩]

蓝牌特斯拉，是身份的象征，第一批进中国的特斯拉，还上不了绿牌，售价奇贵，被戏称为 电动冤大头

[@xiaoandmatt]

哈哈！ 中国人很喜欢有面子的东西。 我个人觉得绿色的牌子反而更好看。

[@metricstormtrooper]

@12.39, that cool ev across the road is call a BUS 😁 ps, i just found your chanel, i love this type of video so ive subscribed.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Haha good call. I didn’t even notice that! Glad to have you subscribed. More videos like this are coming!

[@wzep263]

The black one with no number plate is an Avatar, quite an upscale model!!

[@xiaoandmatt]

I love it. Such a cool car!

[@hanmi1216]

I didn't realise that zeekr 001 is big, looks bigger than tesla model Y 😮

[@xiaoandmatt]

Not sure of the exact size but it’s close for sure.

[@andyliu7922]

why isnt there this many cell phone companies, isnt cellphone easier to produce, we need more cell phone brands

[@xiaoandmatt]

Some brands already have market domination and no one can compete. I expect in 10 years the majority of these Chinese EV brands will be absorbed by the winners or just totally gone without a trace. None of these EV brands in China are profitable besides BYD at the moment.

[@WellMax-M]

Matt, you speak good Chinese. Yangzhou is an amazing city, I've been there for 4-5 times since last year. Good people and views in Yangzhou. Normally I drive my Li auto L9 to there, I plan to go there soon, I'm glad if we can meet in Yangzhou and you can make a video to show the inside of Chinese EV.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Hey! Thanks for the comment! That would be awesome. I’m not sure we will be here then though because we are going to the USA to see my family at some point in June.

[@WellMax-M]

@@xiaoandmatt I will send message to you one day before I go there. If you have time, that will be great.

[@alphaomega1969]

2:28 is the almighty Huawei AVATAR 12! Yes it is EV

[@xiaoandmatt]

Very cool car!

[@soneomeelse]

05:25 Green plates weren't introduced back then when first wave of EVs hit the market.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Oh okay. Strange they haven’t asked them to update to the new green plates.

[@conradbo1]

You saw a lot of ev cars congratulations. Interesting video.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks!

[@LMCCasting]

You should put the price tag on these EVs，so people can know how cheap are those EVs.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Good idea! I will see what I can do!

[@LYW-su3ol]

thanks for another great video , very interseting !!!

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks for watching!

[@cosmoobserver3416]

06:23 This is a NETA (Chinese: 哪吒) U Pro by 合众汽车. NETA is a popular EV in the Chinese market. It also sells well in Thailand.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Awesome. Thanks for the information!

[@sorosxu]

扬州慢，听说是我中国最会享受的城市，本人钱包疼，去过徐州，没去过江苏十三太保大部分地区

[@juliozandamela]

That's cool

[@metricstormtrooper]

I just want a Baojun Cloud but as long as people want SUVs i cant see the local (Australian) importers bothering to import sensible roomy efficient cars.

[@I_dont_want_an_at]

fair to say they're kicking butt in ev numbers

[@xiaoandmatt]

They have been for a while. I live in Nanjing and probably 2 years ago I was seeing numbers like this there. When we head back to Nanjing I will make more videos and see what it’s like there now.

[@whokilledmax]

扬州这喇叭是不是该管管，快成印度了

[@xiaoandmatt]

哈哈

[@jcen911]

5:23 This one has a blue plate because the owner transfered his old blue plate from his/her pervious petro vehicle to the model S before greenplates was issued in China.

[@jcen911]

6:22 Arcfox

[@dinojohn1]

China is 5 or 10 years ahead of the Japanese, Korean and Germans in EVs. We all know they will all have to 'consolidate' (by country) to have any chance of survival. Brilliant video.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@oldtechie6834]

No Hyundai EVs ?

[@閑人勿擾]

韩国车在中国没有竞争力

[@tomasabell3994]

Hyundai EV sucks

[@amandagrant4331]

Hyundai didn't launch EV in China, because the competiiton is serious

[@LaowaiDaveJCP]

Hyundai EVs are not competitive as Tesla is to enter the Chinese market

[@andreass.3444]

According to their China website, Hyundai currently only offer the Ioniq 5 N. I can't understand, but there is only the overpriced N version with the artificial ICE engine noises on the market. No wonder they aren't competitive.

[@passby8070]

That black car without plate is IM i think. I like the design.

[@yangcao4722]

It's sad that the American people can't buy cheap and reliable EVs. Tesla is great, but the interior is too shabby. Can't the US government let people freely choose the EV they like? This is unbelievable.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Tesla is improving their interiors now with the refreshed cars, but I agree that many Chinese EVs have very nice interiors.

[@maercoco8591]

扬州人这么喜欢按喇叭吗

[@xiaoandmatt]

在中国很多城市都很喜欢

[@Kheyphos]

We were left behind. China is far ahead, for shame!

[@I_dont_want_an_at]

im heading to China for a visit when 80 % of cars are ev. inhale the fresh air

[@victorsvoice7978]

China is the only country that makes affordable evs for ordinary people. Western automakers don't.

[@xiaoandmatt]

The Chinese government has taken strong actions to promote EVs and batteries for like a decade so it isn’t a surprise that they are way ahead.

[@yibowang197]

If you come to Shenzhen or Guangzhou, you will find at least over 60% cars on the road are EVs

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah I know I was just down in Guangzhou. It’s crazy how many EVs there are there. I’m in Nanjing this week and there are a ton of EVs here as well.

[@Tianyumen]

06:23 nezha(哪吒) EV, name of a god.

[@jimkuan8493]

In major Chinese cities, it is hard to find a gas car now. That is because it is very difficult to get a gas car license in major cities since around 2015. It has been almost 10 years, and most gas cars running in the city streets are phasing out. Same is gradually happening in second tiered and third tiered cities. It is more and more difficult to get gas car licenses. The results are dramatic. It is more often to see blue sky in Chinese cities. And the streets are very quiet without gas cars. It is interesting to see that less and less people are honking. It seems as the streets are getting quieter and people are getting more polite, they are less likely to use honking.

[@xiaoandmatt]

There are still a lot of gas cars around, so it isn’t hard to find a gas car at all. The skies are certainly clearer now than 5 years ago and I think that has a lot to do with EVs but also moving factory locations and other initiatives the government has been doing to reduce pollution

[@liuxiaoyang333]

the EVs with blue plates that means the owner traded their gasoline vehicle without subsidy. When they want to trade this EV with blue plates, they are able to buy a gasoline vehicle.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks for the info!

[@kaiwenyang5728]

A blue tesla license plate simply means the owner of that car bought that tesla way back when Tesla first came into the Chinese market and the green plate hasn't been implemented yet

[@xiaoandmatt]

Oh okay. Thanks for the comment!

[@睿萧-j4y]

hello have you considered to have a channel on bilibili？

[@xiaoandmatt]

I do already. It is the same name as this channel, but my wife never posts any of my videos there anymore. ;(

[@LYW-su3ol]

I'm hoping to see XIAOMI SU7 in your next video , hope they made it to your city already

[@xiaoandmatt]

I will keep an eye out!

[@morchang624]

5:25， that is an imported Tesla long time ago（like 12 years？）before the Green Plate System was published.

[@호롱방]

미국은 어서 슈퍼 301조발동하세요 상하원의원들이 중국차 제재법안을 만드세요 중국차는 자유민주주의를 심각하게 위협합니다

[@xiaoandmatt]

저는 그것이 국가 안보에 큰 위협이 된다고 생각하지 않습니다. 이미 전 세계 많은 나라들이 중국 전기차를 자국 시장에 받아들이고 있습니다. 예를 들어, 유럽은 중국 전기차의 유입이 상당히 증가했으며, 이들은 성공적으로 교통 시스템에 통합되고 있습니다. 이러한 차량들은 종종 국제적인 안전 및 환경 기준을 충족시키고 있어, 글로벌 시장에 유익한 추가 요소가 될 수 있음을 보여줍니다. 잠재적인 위험에 대해 경계하는 것은 중요하지만, 이러한 차량을 전면 금지하는 것은 필요하지 않을 수도 있습니다.

[@allenlee9449]

Clown

[@BestluckYan]

50% car sold are Ev or PHEV, or sort of Evs

[@sharpshan6986]

Didn’t expect to see alot of nio’s! ..i guess theyre not going bankcrupt anytime soon! Anyways I enjoy watching your video!

[@xiaoandmatt]

Yeah, there were a lot of Nios. I don't know how their overall business numbers are as far as profits, but they are selling well. Thanks for watching!

[@哈苏-x1x]

中国的新能源汽车绿牌是2016年4月逐步开始试点实行的， 2018年上半年，全国所有城市都覆盖实行这一制度，所以在这之前销售的ev和混合动力车统一使用蓝色车牌。我的第一台混动车就是2015年买的byd 秦 混合动力（纯电续航70km）。去年换成了吉利的l7混合动力（纯电续航115km）. 顺便提一句，我的城市长沙国营停车场针对绿牌车有停车费五折的优惠。

[@xiaoandmatt]

好的，谢谢你的信息！中国在激励人们购买电动汽车方面做得很好。你觉得你的新车怎么样？你为什么不买一辆纯电动汽车呢？

[@哈苏-x1x]

@@xiaoandmatt 混合动力完全没有里程焦虑，对我来说日常通勤往返距离不会超过50km，几乎不会用到汽油，和ev没有区别；但是周末或者长假的旅行就会很有优势，我的车满油、满电续航里程可以1100km。要知道，长假期间高速路上的充电站完全是地狱级的。

[@哈苏-x1x]

@@xiaoandmatt 我认为中国的新能源车技术是靠混合动力技术崛起的而不是ev，但我们出口的车几乎全部是ev，所以这一点国外的认知是不够的。特别是byd 的DMI（偏向经济）\DMP(偏向性能)\DMO(越野)，这三种混合动力技术完全自主研发，发动机和电动机配合非常多元而且高效，并且可以做到不需要变速箱。其他厂家现在也有各自的混动技术，感兴趣的话，你可以搜索一下。

[@ananduap8648]

Damn your Mandarin 😮...how can i learn...i would like to learn

[@xiaoandmatt]

Do you live in China?

[@liamporter1137]

Thanks for sharing.

[@xiaoandmatt]

Thanks for watching!

[@tonylan5542]

EV, you must go to Liuzhou to see, it is capital of EV

[@xiaoandmatt]

Noted! Maybe I can take a trip!

[@garychan6441]

it's my hometown hhhhh

[@caryzhang9371]

the city is smaller, more cute evs you will see😊

[@xiaoandmatt]

哈哈。你好像比较喜欢那种很可爱的车子

[@franktongzi1430]

Depend which city you are in

[@bobbyus]

Oh your chinese is really good 🤭

[@YXHQ116]

So close to my city😂

[@dejavumagazine]

Nice one. I am headed to China next week and going to the trouble to get a temporary license so I can hire and EV and do a bit of a road trip in the country side :-) I have no details of rental companies having EVs... but surely... :-) ?

[@xiaoandmatt]

That sounds like an awesome plan. I am actually in the process of getting a Chinese license so I can drive here as well. There are many Chinese car rental companies and I am sure they offer EVs. Enjoy your trip!

[@dejavumagazine]

@@xiaoandmatt Hey, thanks for the prompt reply 🙂 I have my Chinese girlfriend looking into car rental but so far I have not seen much about electric vehicle rentals... And it's quite literally all Chinese to me 🙂 if you have any more information about what EVs are available for rental would be very much appreciated... And Which companies? 🙂

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@dejavumagazine It’s an interesting topic that I don’t know much about but I’m sure there are available options. I’m sure your Chinese gf can find something. What city are you flying into?

[@dejavumagazine]

Landing Shanghai ... Kunming next Thursday. Really looking forward to it... But my Chinese is nowhere near as good as yours, but I have been learning

[@xiaoandmatt]

@@dejavumagazine You won’t need it! You have your gf. I really like Kunming and the surrounding region.

[@NinaYuhaniam73]

what camera are you using

[@xiaoandmatt]

iPhone 15