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China is emerging as a major powerhouse in the manufacture and sale of electric vehicles. But maybe there’s a dark side that hasn’t been revealed yet, recently a huge farm appeared filled with thousands of abandoned Chinese electric cars.
Quoted from InsideEV, in the graveyard there are thousands of electric cars that are not maintained. Some of the electric cars spotted are the Geely Kandi K10 EV, Neta V and BYD e3 models. The cars were parked in a district of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China.
The sight made my chest feel heavy, because the car, which was mostly painted white, was stained because of a layer of dust and tires that were partly covered in grass. Inside the interior of one of the abandoned cars, the BYD e3, the car still looks brand new, because the plastic seat covers have not been touched and the screen is still shiny. The kilometers are not more than 31 miles or less than 50 kilometers.
There were a number of cars that already had license plates but were left alone in the open area of 15,000 square meters. The property status of the land is commercial, which can be rented out.
YouTuber Winston Sterzel accused the abandoned electric car of being a trick by electric car companies to get subsidies from the Chinese government.
But in local Chinese media reports, the electric car still partially belongs to a failed car-sharing service called Microcity. The company owns thousands of Kandi 11 model electric cars. Several car rental businesses went bankrupt during the same period in China, this has to do with explaining the existence of these car cemeteries.
In a 2019 report, a villager in the area was interviewed, he claimed that the company had been paying him over 30,000 yuan (around Rp. 62 million) per year since last July 2019 for the parking area.
This is not the first time this has happened, The Atlantic reported on a similar incident in 2018 in Shanghai. But this time the electric bicycles are stacked. The publication said that bike-sharing services peaked in 2017 in China. Supply far exceeds demand, the result being a mountain of bicycles.
Watch the video “Plenary Session: PKS Asks the Government to Remove Electric Car Subsidies”
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2023-07-01 04:46:24
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