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Auto Industry - Chinese exports

Discussion in 'General' started by Boman Forklift, Dec 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM.

  1. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    This article states China has production capacity for 30 million ICE powered cars as well as 20 million electric cars. Since electric vehicles are dominating sales inside China, China has excess ICE capacity and is exporting ICE vehicles like crazy all over the world. Evidently Mexico is one of their largest markets.

    https://www.reuters.com/investigati...h-gasoline-cars-it-cant-sell-home-2025-12-02/

    This link shows their amazing growth since 2020.

    https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CHINA-AUTOS/GASOLINE-EXPORTS/znvnqklxopl/media-embed.html
     
  2. StaccatoFan

    StaccatoFan Resident 2011 Fan Boy

    So EVs are like all the fake empty cities China builds to give the illusion of prosperity.

    And @cu260r6 and other shallow thinkers take it all as gospel.
     
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  3. JBraun

    JBraun Well-Known Member

    Mind blowing stats Rob. :D
     

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  4. tony 340

    tony 340 Well-Known Member

    China is smogged the fuck out in the city

    They need to only do EV car sales for a while

    As much as the epa is a thorn in my side at work, they are a necessary body.
     
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  5. Phl218

    Phl218 .

    a GM in china i talked to this am said "china economy is in a dark moment , there is no light"

    meaning recession without a path out of it. they just stick to their 5y plan and hope for the best.
     
  6. Razr

    Razr Well-Known Member

    China thought they would be selling a bunch of electric cars in this country soon, but I don't think so...
     
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  7. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    Its nice to see Chyna overbuilt in other areas besides Chemical production. Wonder when they will let free market take over and some of their capacity will have to go?
     
  8. YamahaRick

    YamahaRick Yamaha Two Stroke Czar

    Thin ice peeps ... be careful!
     
  9. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    Still only a little over a million US exports and China is exporting over 5 million.

    I was actually surprised how much they have grown and how much capacity they have.
     
  10. TZ250lover

    TZ250lover Well-Known Member

    I would never buy a Chinese made car, but this doesn’t concern me much. What does concern me is ship building. China is the largest ship builder in the world, by far, and our market share has shrunk to nothing. If ww2 were faught today, we would be in a world of hurt. What was our advantage, would be our Achilles
     
  11. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    There's a ton of articles online about the fields full of electric cars that have not and never will be sold. Like the electric scooters, bicycles and the other crap that's going to be the next big thing.

    Some of the electric cars I got hauled around in were pretty damn alright. Nicer than a lot of the shit boxes available in the US. I'd never buy one because I have zero clue on how they'd age but priced right it'd be interesting to see how they'd do in the US.
     
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  12. gixxerboy55

    gixxerboy55 Well-Known Member

    There is a100 percent tariff on Chinese electric car imports.
     
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  13. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    Mistah we could use a man like Andrew Higgins agaaaaaaaaain...

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  14. TWF2

    TWF2 2 heads are better than 1

    I see a lot of them back home. They actually look pretty good. I may look in to byd electric when I move.
     
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  15. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    I'm curious: where do you see this thread going? :Poke::)
     
  16. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    Well I actually kinda like cars and read about them quite a bit. So I figured if I was surprised China had grown that much in exports, others maybe interested in that too?

    Wasn’t trying to start any political stuff, and it doesn’t seem to have, but if that’s how it’s perceived, I guess I will earn my first vacation?
     
    Last edited: Dec 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
  17. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    I wasn't suggesting that it's going to get political. Just that it will be indistinguishable from the other two active EV threads (of which you started the most recent one) within a couple of pages. Just wait till the usual half dozen flies catch a whiff of it.
     
  18. 27

    27 Well-Known Member

    Hey Rob, didn’t you have a Lotus? Wasn’t the first Tesla built on/in one? Way before Elon… the original guys that started it…

    and check out the Milburn model 27 electric… that’s what you need!
     
  19. Phl218

    Phl218 .

    check out the lohner porsche :D
     
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  20. 27

    27 Well-Known Member

    Some of that tech is great! Quick change batteries… way too fast for smooth rides on the road system
     

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