I know I’m going to be called a shill for this, but anyway:
Earlier today some dude posted a review by wheelsboy for the Avatr 12 sedan. It was immediately downvoted to shit. And it wasn’t a bad review! It was in depth, it was fun, the guy did an overview of the product and showed us how it drove. It wasn’t some low quality thing!
If this was just a random thing, then whatever; odd stuff sometimes from time to time. But this is a reoccuring issue when it comes to Chinese (and even some Euro!) brands and models, or news, or manufacturers
Look, I get it; you don’t like China. I’m not super keen on every aspect of their society myself. But jesus; if you don’t like something, just look away. Stop trying to drown out EV news from the largest EV market in the whole damn world. If you want that, make your own subreddit that’s just about american EVs and remain blissfully unaware of what Stellantis or Geely or whoever the hell is doing. But don’t ruin it for the rest of us!
You are right. US has Less has EV diversity, less amount of CPOs, less Roaming and wanting to dictate how EV should be. I am a Global Roaming responsible and need to understand business models and love to participate in American webinars to ask very simple questions… Suddenly the webinar falls apart and we focus on the chat section with questions that really matter.
I agree. There’s a lot of cool EV news from China. Leading battery tech, self driving tech, etc. Most of it not (yet) coming to the west.
But to be fair, I think Tesla posts are downvoted as well, especially since the Twitter downfall.
You’re new to Reddit, I take it?
Has nothing to do with China, has everything to do with a people shilling their YouTube channels when this is a text based forum with plenty of character space for a review. It’s not just here it’s all over Reddit, if I wanted YouTube reviews I’d go there.
Yep, I downvote every youtube post in every subreddit I’m subscribed to. YouTubers, go away.
Why, isn’t video the right medium for some topics, like for example car reviews ?
The only right answer
lol bullshit. I never see Doug DeMuro’s reviews get down voted.
The video in question is a week old and has less than 50k views. Maybe people just don’t care about 14 minute videos.
Some of their videos work better than others. But Wheelsboy and insideChinaAuto have so good content on new Chinese EVs and offer some good insights. Especially for cars we know will be exported to other markets… like the Avatr.
I agree, this is mainly an American sub.
It is especially funny to see post about charging and range… and how different the us is compared to other regions.
What’s the ratio, Kenneth?
Frequency reference?
…so funny, it hertz.
Sorry, thought it was the song: Whats The Frequency Kenneth by REM
It was, punned up.
Or people just have differing opinions and may not have liked the video.
You’re the one making assumptions here.
Chinese vehicles are a threat to the EU, the US, Canada, and Australia. I get that the Asians have it going for them, but I’m tired of seeing news from China. I don’t care about what the commies do.
Hi, I’m a Rivian owner and I’m equally as frustrated by all the Europeans that flood truck / SUV threads saying EVs should be limited to bikes and small cars and nobody actually needs 200-300+ miles of range.
Maybe instead of pointing fingers let’s just all stop shitting on EVs that don’t fit our specific use cases?
My god I hate everything about your useless American excuses in that comment t as an American
While I wholeheartedly agree, I actually find it less prominent here than in most other Reddit communities, then again Reddit at large is basically sinophohia and western chauvinism with a fedora.
Ok, where did I leave my popcorn?
Who hurt you?
Calm down… this sub hates all EVs, not just your favorite.
If I’m ever having too good a day I hop on in here and post that I can’t wait until someone finally releases an EV SUV.
Pure evil!
I live in america and I agree with you.
Here everybody wants a gazillion mile range and 6 rows of seating and ability to tow their house behind it. Because they love driving, being in the car for hours on end, even days. They want a home on wheels…
But it’s not entirely their fault. There’s absolutely no public transport. Did you know that between the biggest cities in Texas there’s no public transportation to speak of? There is one train a day between Dallas (3rd largest city) and Austin (capital and 4rth largest).
Can you imagine 1 train a day between major cities in Europe?
My god, it’s not enough that you anti-car “urbanists” are preaching all over the rest of reddit, you have to do it on car subs too?
Can you imagine if the hundreds of billions spent on subsidizing EV’s for wealthy people was spent on transit?
The city need video on this is pretty telling and doesn’t even get in to the infrastructure bill
imagine all the good texas is doing with their oil money.
