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deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago

China’s next EV boom: trucks

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China’s next EV boom: trucks

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deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago
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Nearly 30% of all new heavy trucks sold in the country last year were electric.
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  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Was sweating for a minute there because it sounded like a Chinese bro-dozer boom in the headline

    • SwitchyandWitchy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Same here, especially with the picture in the article. Glad they’re talking about heavy transport trucks.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Literally impossible as long as the laws don’t change. In China, trucks are considered utility vehicles and the pickup truck style is under a limitation where after a certain number of years of use it must be scrapped. Therefore there is 0 resale market for trucks and the only people who buy them for non-work related purposes are people who are already rich americabrained idiots, same demographic as the original customer base.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    China has fallen

    no-choice

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    It kind of sucks how much big US style vehicles have become popular in China. The streets are too small and people don’t know how to drive them

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      This is about transport trucks (lorrys in the UK), not the child death monsters from the US

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        What a relief, having electric transport trucks is a great thing. The giant SUVs in China are tough and I was imagining US style trucks added into the equation.

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      People in the US don’t know how to drive them either.

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        I treat F150s like deer or other wild animals on the road

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    Explaining EVs to a burger-American: “imagine a pickup truck”

    Edit: guess I should have read the article

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    https://hexbear.net/post/8113347

    Very dialectical

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