There’s a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?

In addition to being full of screens, China now wants its cars to be packed with AI.

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They key EV advantage China has is not in price. As the writeup explains those price advantages largely dispear when the vehicles are designed to western standards.

They China EV advantage that we are missing out on is in the actual EV technology. It is the CATL's 3rd-generation Qilin (Shenxing) battery, unveiled in April 2026 that completes a full charge in under 7 minutes (10% to 98% in 6 minutes and 27 seconds). It is the the BYD flash charging that charges an EV from 10% to 97% in just 9 minutes and adds 400km of range in 5 minutes. It fully charges a cold soaked battery at -30°C in 12 minutes. It is the 2nd Generation Blade Battery that provides electric range exceeding 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) and the WeLion Semi-Solid-State Battery from Nio which was live streamed providing a real world range of 1,044 km from a 150 kWh battery.


Here is Kyle from Out of Spec recently reviewing BYD flash charging to show the next level of EV technology being deployed that we do not have access to


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajim7KF30jE

Everything about this article reeks of "American exceptionalism"

The entire planet has been caught with their pants down as China seems to have been the only country who didn't half-arse electrification.

(Global) People are now buying Chinese cars not because they're cheaper, but because they're straight up better. It's the 90s Japanese auto takeover, but it's China's turn now.