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!

  • SebasFC@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • lafeber@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • ElGatoMeooooww@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • BraveRock@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The video in question is a week old and has less than 50k views. Maybe people just don’t care about 14 minute videos.

    • bindermichi@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

  • Swimming-Equal-9114@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • feurie@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Or people just have differing opinions and may not have liked the video.

    You’re the one making assumptions here.

  • I_Like_Driving1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • jzorbino@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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?

  • MilkshakeSocialist@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • expatriato@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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?

    • greenw40@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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?

    • sprunkymdunk@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Can you imagine if the hundreds of billions spent on subsidizing EV’s for wealthy people was spent on transit?