Steve Talks About China's Build Quality .

[@mijmijrm]

the cost of energy is high in europe because it's supply of cheap energy was mysteriously destroyed.

[@hylimm]

lol it was destroyed by US! Everyone knows that!

[@zollen123]

You mean nobody has the sensible foresight to diversify their energy sources long before the war?

[@stenyethanmathews945]

Lulz 😂

[@strongchallenger2269]

You didn't mention the latest EV batteries by Byd and CATL. Don't think anyone can catch up with them. Simply amazing.

[@MetaView7]

Sadly today's Toyota and Honda quality is not the same as years before.

[@stenyethanmathews945]

Check out what the ceo of ford said about chinese evs. Its pretty eye-opening

[@outkast40]

The States has always had ugly interiors in their cars. China has many different colors of interiors with new technology . But they have better looking exteriors as well.

[@andrewlim7751]

The whole Chinese EV are just gorgeous inside out, and comparing with ice, no maintenance required and the exhaust even smells nice. Winner!

[@Mia3HD]

I want one😢, but, but, but……….😢

[@unreliablenarrator6649]

China does not import most of their energy. China has pursued diversified energy mix with the largest generation capacity of PV solar, thermal solar, wind and nuclear. They are increasingly less dependent on coal for caseload, the coal plants they are building now are cleaner replacements for aging plants, and as nuclear comes-up it will replace coal for caseload.

[@sergeikorolev922]

even the imported coal is mostly the cost problem since China has plenty of coal to be self reliant unlike oil, however those coals are mostly in the inland so they have to transport it through heavy trains to the closest port and distribute to the other port around china, since the biggest energy consumers are always at the coast. It's cheaper for the coastal provinces to just import the coal from Indonisia and Australia. The more similar example would be oil in the US. United States has enough oil but it's more costly to drill compared to Russia or Saudi, It's only profitable when oil price in the globe exceed like 40$ per barrel last time I remebered, but in the more extreme circumstance, US can always get enough oil and gas from itself.

[@Kukaboora]

I was always wondering about the quality of Chinese EV. Now I got the definitive answers from you via Steve Fambro. Thanks. Btw, the music you use in the background for your broadcast, do you have the name of the score? The trombone (or sax) sounds amazing.

[@freepower1082]

It’s Daniel Kafer’s podcast I put his link down below . 😎

[@gr8dvd]

Ford CEO revealed in an interview he’s driving a Chinese EV, loves it and doesn’t wish to let it go… high praise from a competitor.

[@AlfarrisiMuammar]

4:13 85% of China's coal comes from China, Mongolia, Russia and North Korea. With cheap prices from the global market. 4:13 Half of Russia's gas and oil is from Russia and below market prices 4:13 China's power company is state-owned(No need to get as much profit as possible) .So you can set a low price For electricity 4:13 Private Factories can build their own power plants In order to lower Electricity price for himself .

[@lyin4rmu]

china electrical infrastructure is highly sophisticated. one thing that blows my mind is the system of ultra high voltage lines they have set up that allows them to send electricity generated from western china all the way to eastern china. imagine that it's night time in new york but your house is being directly powered by electricity generated from solar farms in california.

[@AlfarrisiMuammar]

@lyin4rmu If you read the total capacity. Size is only 5% of electricity needs

[@modready9603]

@@AlfarrisiMuammar This is old data.In 2023, China renewable energy generation reached 2.95 trillion kWh, accounting for 31.8% ; hydropower 13.8%; wind power 9.5%; Photovoltaic power 6.3%,higher in 2024.

[@isaacyonemoto]

hydrogen makes more sense in a world where you generate nuclear and have much smaller supply chain lines than the US. but after the tsunami, japanese nuclear got put on hold (it just got resstarted). it was never a good play except domestically but there were huge subsidies.

[@kongwee1978]

With 4th gen nuclear, you can build reactor in desert.

[@isaacyonemoto]

@@kongwee1978 not many deserts in japan

[@Aapig]

The nuclear-contaminated water discharged from Japan has already drifted to the United States

[@dstr1]

Who can build those nuclear reactors in the desert?​@@kongwee1978

[@isaacyonemoto]

@@Aapig your beijing-sanctioned talking points are out of date, check south china morning post yesterday: "Chinese tests of seawater near Fukushima nuclear plant show no impact on marine life"

[@billsmith5960]

Any question on how Aptera will handle the Chinese? Would have been a good question but maybe I missed it.

[@johnwdowell]

I'm very disappointed that Steve called the first Honda Insights "miserable little vehicles". I have two 2001 Honda Insights and they are awesome cars. They were the first hybrids sold in America. 7 months before the Toyota Prius. Insights were very advanced for their time and still are incredible. The grandfather of the hybrids. Mine have nearly 200,000 miles on them. Let's see if Steve's Aptera can get that many. 🤓

[@freepower1082]

I have a 2008 Honda Civic and it’s amazing , I have 238,000 miles on it and still running good ! 😎

[@isaacyonemoto]

i had the 2003 Honda civic and honda did NOT have their shit together at the time; electrical failure every other year.

[@cashless]

Even the 2nd Gen we're awful. Worst cars Honda ever made. Be serious.

[@cashless]

​@@freepower1082not an Insight. What are you talking about? They're not the same. Smh

[@isaacyonemoto]

@@cashless I didn't have one so I can't say. I got the second gen (4 door) insight, which was a great vehicle

[@stevelane5023]

I don’t agree with your viewpoint on labor unions. Because of labor unions we find that a large portion of automobile manufacturing was moved out of country. Partly because of greed on behalf of the CEOs. Party because of the cost of doing business. Unions had a time and place. Not so much anymore.

[@BryanChance]

The west could still compete IF governments actually care about its people, invest in education, infrastructure and have policies that benefit the average citizen. Make the environment so people don’t just survive but thrive.

[@mijmijrm]

the US Empire is focussing its energies on International Domination. Internal development is a minor issue. Practically an annoying distraction.

[@ladygracienyc2029]

Japan's auto industry is completely lost and will lose market share to China. They are still wasting time on hydrogen when electric is clearly the future fuel type. Japan is at least 10 years behind in battery tech and will likely never catch up. Expect a lot of bankruptcies or govt bail-outs in Japan as a result

[@richardryley3660]

I've always thought Fuel Cells were a good idea. Instead of charging a battery, you just renew the electrolyte and are done as fast as a gasoline vehicle. But the fuel needs to be liquid to be convenient to handle. Hydrogen is just too difficult to manage and store. Of course, you can choose what physical properties your chemicals have. Finding a usable anode, cathode, or an electrolyte that has the right properties is pretty much a matter of luck.

[@freepower1082]

I think that’s why they have R&D however it seems like Toyota and Honda have been researching Hydrogen sense the 90’s .🤨

[@robertkirchner7981]

By fuel cells, do you mean flow batteries?

[@richardryley3660]

@@robertkirchner7981 Both really. Fuel cells specifically use hydrogen and oxygen in the reaction but there are still a number of chemical choices. I was kind of glossing over the differences.

[@reynoldliao7462]

Japanese are pragmatic??? Boy! This guy does NOT understand the Japanese at all!!! 😂😂😂

[@aeromtb2468]

they sucked just like the civiv hybrids