Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/67999824
China’s First Affordable EV Brand Lands In Canada! | First Look At Dongfeng!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-H1p5fAC_w&t=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-H1p5fAC_w&t=1
Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/67999824
29 Comments
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 18d
Affordable...but no mention of prices.
Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 18d
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/chinese-ev-canada-9.7270657
There's still no mention of price tag, just that it'll cost less than 35k based on what the import agreement stipulates (i.e. half* the quota of EVs cost less than 35k and half more).
So this will be part of the under 35k quota
Edited a word
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 18d
A $35k SUV would be crazy if true. Only missing detail is how reliably they run and repair here.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 17d
The Chevy Bolt isn't bad
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 17d
Nice! You love to see more competition!
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 17d
Sadly they converted the factories because of the competition.
violentfart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
I think market-specific branding would help Chinese companies in the west.
AGM@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 18d
I'd guess people will get used to the brand names. Hyundai was like that too. Most people will eventually settle on some bastardized pronunciation of the name, like this guy.
violentfart@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
Most reasonable people won’t care, but I think a measurable percentage would be turned off by it, which you don’t want when entering a market.
It’s easy to drive a Merc, Benz, Bimmer, Chevy, Ford, or V-dub.
It’s harder (heh) to say “whoa he’s drives a Dong”
“I’ll be there in 5 minutes, look for a black Dong”
Idk maybe it’s easier after all.
AGM@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 18d
Won't be an issue 10 years in and global brand value is more important, especially when entering a market to compete on price rather than on prestige.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 4 pts · 18d
"did you see that Dong run the light?"
Tm12@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 18d
I have no idea how to pronounce it correctly. Hi-oon-day? I say hun-day
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 18d
Rhymes with Sunday and pronounce the first Y.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 17d
super popular in Australia (we have no quotas and no tarrfis)
still a lot of sinophobia but that was the case way back as well. An example, my Grandfather was in WW2 and he said he would disowned my dad if he bought a Toyota when I was a teen (am 60 now). And when Sth Korea launched their cars they're were laughed at.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 17d
Yeah there’d be a huge dummy spit here if suddenly barriers were thrown up to Chinese…cars in Australia. Lots of people driving them, using them as battery backup for home solar systems.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 16d
i used V2L on mine once during a power outage, a storm took out some trees that took out some power lines. Mine comes with a 3 plug GPO, one end to the car charge port for power, the other one extension cord to the fridge, one to the freezer and the other to a couple LED desk lamps, router and NBN box and USB charger. We'd lost power for about 2 days. Barley budged the battery level in the car.
V2H and V2G will become more of a thing as well eventually although lots of folks are busy installing home batteries.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 16d
Yeah they’ve been a game changer and they’re helping us build a very resilient grid. If I owned it’d be a no brained for me as well. I’d have one and I’d have it plugged to solar.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 18d
Everybody worldwide knows about BYD.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 17d
Because Scion sold so well right?
Scotty@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 18d
And the propaganda goes on ... the first Chinese EVs have already arrived in Canada, and they have price tags between 120,000 tp 160,000 ...
Dongfeng will not arrive this year. And even the official agreement between Canada and China in January says,
It is anticipated (not legally binding), and within 5 years.
But Donfeng had a VIP cocktail in Montreal and they need some advertising.
AGM@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 18d
You seem really disappointed at not having more low-cost Chinese EVs in Canada sooner. Me too. Many are.
Scotty@scribe.disroot.org · -3 pts · 17d
There is no reason to buy a car made by forced labour, no matter how cheap it is.
BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 16d
It's ok, I'll get one from a dark factory.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 18d
The first to be allowed was a Lotus. Who cares. Very few people will buy such a niche car.
Scotty@scribe.disroot.org · 5 pts · 17d
The first China-made car in Canada in this deal was Tesla, and they will have the largest share of the first batch of 24,500 cars.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 17d
Gross. People should not support a Nazi.
Scotty@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 17d
Yeah, people shouldn't support any dictatorship.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 17d
well that's the US out then
villasv@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 17d
That's a lot of salt jus to say "these EVs haven't really arrived yet, not expected to be sold in 2026" (that's literally the first thing the guy says in the video)