Comments on: Beijing Auto joins China’s EV race

By: The Salesman

The Salesman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:51:08 +0000

Yes. And women will never vote. And we will never have a black president. The good 5 – 10 years you speak of are over. The Chinese will be a major player in the automotive industry.
I applauded their ingenuity and energy. They are aggressively striving to provide cheaper products with similar quality. It’s this sort of healthy competition that benefits the consumer.
They are the world’s factory for just about everything else. Car manufacturing is just the next step.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:48:01 +0000

Honda

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:03:56 +0000

It looks good

By: Baddass

Baddass — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:15:06 +0000

As I said before that coupe pictured looks se.. oh sorry, real darn good. I didn’t know that my comment would be moderated for using the word ’se%y’ to describe a car. Oh well, this is Australia we live in, the land of the nanny.

By: Willister

Willister — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:46:17 +0000

The jury is still out. The only every Western report that has detailed driving the BYD’s E6 is that it’s still shoddy. Quality sucks, but quite frankly, I find that BYD has more of a chance at making batteries for cars than actually being a car producer.

Nice try at it (BYD), but honestly, the problem with Chinese manufacturers is that they face a catch 22. To conquer the EV market, it is essentially a car market, even if you do manage to make EVs and leap of ICs, you still need riding handling and comfort, none of the current crop of Chinese manufacturers come close to making anything decent for the Western world to accept.

To accomplish that, they still need a good 5-10 years. What a lot of focus should be directed to is their breakthroughs in EV tech (batteries) not engines and cars itself. All the E6 is a copy of a Corolla, at CHinese quality with a EV engine.

By: lazybones

lazybones — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:12:35 +0000

Without wanting to start a debate on Chinese copy cat cars. What do you think of when you see the front of the above pictured coupe?

http://image.motortrend.com/f/.....-coupe.jpg

By: Shak

Shak — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:30:21 +0000

Some of these cars have more range than the modern Japanese and European electric efforts.

By: Mr Brooksy

Mr Brooksy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:09:30 +0000

At least it has an element of style to it from that one pic above. Weird considering its Chinese, which usually means that the headlights come from Star Treck and the grilles looks like they could have come from an 1940’s Chevy!

I’d still be worried about driving a Chinese car, especially when I drive in a Chinese car in China! Arghhhh.

But to its credit it looks better than the butt ugly, vomit provoking Prius from that angle.