“The competitive reality is that the Chinese are the 700-pound gorilla in the EV industry,” Farley said in a recent appearance on The Verge‘s Decoder podcast. “There’s no real competition from Tesla, GM, or Ford with what we’ve seen from China. It is completely dominating the EV landscape globally and more and more outside of China.”
There’s something like a 40 pound difference between the average American man and the average Chinese man.
So in a vehicle that seats five, there would be on average an extra 200 pounds of human sloshing around their seats while they steer one-handed with a burger in the other hand and a Big Gulp between their thighs.
It’s more that they have shitty suspension, chassis rigidity, centre of mass
And making an engine bigger rather than more efficient adds a huge amount of weight
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Don’t misjudge Americans.
They put the Big Gulp in one of the car’s 17 cupholders.
Hah! I actually removed the second comment because it got a little derisive. But I’ll stand by my premise that Americans want/need bigger cars and handling was never an important thing in American car culture.