Almost two-thirds of Germans can now imagine buying a car from a Chinese manufacturer. The figure is even higher for electric cars, as an ADAC survey shows.
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Almost two-thirds of Germans can now imagine buying a car from a Chinese manufacturer. The figure is even higher for electric cars, as an ADAC survey shows.
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I hope that the downfall of the European carmakers will result in them losing influence on the politics and, therefore, less car centrism overall
When Tesla came up they also could imagine buying American cars again (before these were very niche).
Similar with 80s for Japanese and early 90s for koreans
I call bs. Doesnt mean the survey is wrong or untruthful but i cant see this actually happening, one of those cases where a survey doesnt represent reality, similar like ‘do you care about climate change?’ and the answer is yes but when you get into specifics like ‘will you sell your car for climate change?’ or ‘will you stop taking the plane for vacations in the future?’ then the reality is most people arent willing to do that. Ive been watching the EV sales in Germany for many years and the sales from chinese EVs have been very poor in Germany and its not getting any better. The only chinese car that consistently makes the monthly top 20 is the MG4. Thats it. MG is the only chinese manufacturer that actually consistently sells cars here but every other model besides the MG4 doesnt sell all that well. BYD only started their offense this year which is a year of demand stagnation so theyve sold awful so far. Nio has had very little success, the Ora funky cat sold a few thousands when they had some insane deals but once those deals ran out, nobody bought them anymore.
The VW group consistently sells really well here but the big winner of the past 2-ish years is BMW who have had incredible success with their recent EVs.
The Chinese also have a lot of competition, Germans dont buy German cars because theyre affordable. People who just look at the price will look at the Koreans, the French and the Japanese. BYD isnt just competing with VW but also Renault, Peugeot, Citroen, Kia, Hyundai and so on.