Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341
JuliusSu writes "A Chinese auto manufacturer, BYD, is introducing today the country's first electric car, a plug-in hybrid vehicle. It plans to sell at least 10,000 cars in 2009 for a price of less than $22,000. This put the company ahead of schedule against other entrants to this market, such as Toyota, due to release a similar car in late 2009; and GM, whose Chevy Volt will be launched in late 2010. The company is best known for making cellphone batteries, and hopes its expertise in ferrous battery technology will allow it to leapfrog established car manufacturers."
quality (Score:5, Funny)
Red Article? (Score:1, Funny)
Is this article red because its about the Chinese?
Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score:1, Funny)
I read this whole thread. I think that entitles *ME* to the title of idiot, you insensitive clod!
Re:quality (Score:1, Funny)
But explosions come free of charge..
Besides everyone knows that individual lives aren't important in China.
Re:Your "American" car is full of Chinese stuff (Score:1, Funny)
They designed the engines too? I thought all they did was jack the work of others and rebrand it Fhord and GeeM.
Re:Anyone can make an electric car (Score:5, Funny)
No, it doesn't exist yet.
Is it made of Melamine like all their food?
You're planning on eating the thing? Interesting.
I avoid any products made in China now because I can't trust them anymore.
Don't eat random products made anywhere.
How much food is recalled and childrens toys?
Boy, you're really hungry, aren't you? Shouldn't eat toys.
Do you want to be in an accident in one of these things and then find out that to cut costs, they used cheap air-bags?
No, I don't want to be in an accident in anything small. I want to be in an accident in my 3/4 ton 4WD pickup.
Gravity powered car (Score:2, Funny)
All you have to do is make the back wheels bigger than the front and you are always going down hill. This should improve mileage by quite a bit but be careful, if the size ratio gets too big it is almost impossible to stop.
Warning (Score:3, Funny)
I drove one of these but two hours later I felt hungry again and had to drive it some more.
Re:Your "American" car is full of Chinese stuff (Score:5, Funny)
About the only thing that is truely american is the arrogance.
Best in class baby! USA! USA!
...whoops, the steering wheel on my Pontiac caught on fire. [*]
[*] BTW, this actually happened to me on a 5 year old
1986 Pontiac Grand Prix while I was driving it.
I now drive a Toyota.
Re:Your "American" car is full of Chinese stuff (Score:3, Funny)
...yeah, and a company like them never did anything like take an entire
factory and sell it to some 3rd world country so that they could make
their own knockoffs...