I'd really love to see how one of these does here in Northern Canada. There are almost no electric vehicles here because of the performance of batteries in the long, cold winter.
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One question: how long is the typical vehicle trip in northern Canadian settlements? I know a lot of northern cities lack road connections to other places, so the range being impacted may not have a huge impact if trips are measured in single or double digits of km increase of triple digits.
Well to get from the western interior coast(Bella Coola) from the closest main city in the interior(Williams Lake) is about 500 km. Even then there is five charging stations on the way and there are some solar farms going in on the Chilcotin plateau so the small communities in the area have power without needing to run major lines to power them.
To get from the north coast (Prince Rupert) to the north interior(Smithers) there looks to be around 7 stations along the way and stations all the way along north towards the Yukon. Now you might not be able to get too far away from the main highway but there is little reason to go too far away from the main highway multiple times. If you have a destination off the highway just make sure you charge at the closest station and have enough change to get back or the ability to charge where you are parking like a b&b.
Most northern communities have a concentration of people and then it's a long way to go to get to the next community. So, there's a bunch of short drives and the occasional long drive.
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Looks great, I'll take it.
For 22k €I can maybe only get some tiny subcompact hatchback...
And it won't be that price once it reaches the European dealerships you can be sure of that.
Why do even all these evs always have to look like you have to compensate for a tiny ego with them , I don't get it ...
What does it mean to "compensate for a tiny ego?" Do non-EV-drivers have huge egos?
BYD have many models. The Dolphin is a small hatch, the Seal a mid size sedan.
Great technology, but built by ~~slave~~ forced labour.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/byd-hungary-china-labour-watch-9.7154249
Not slaves. Perhaps serfs?
I'd like to read some sources on current day China using slave labor to build these cars, otherwise you sound like another racist.
China does use slave labor in cotton and aluminum production. BYD uses that aluminum, as well as other western brands.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/01/china-carmakers-implicated-uyghur-forced-labor
BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, and Volkswagen, Ford, General Motors, and Tesla use steel and aluminum from China that is made with forced labor. This is a problem for The US car industry because Canada has laws against using it.
Updated with a source.
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