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It looks like the Chinese impact will be larger than the Koreans. They've already overtaken the Koreans in market share:…

I'm 37 years old, do 40,000km a year in the Hunter Valley region and my M3 Long Range costs $1400 P/A through NRMA.

Yeah it all makes sense, but the speed of expansion is just wild. What will the global market look like in 10 years I wonder? Anyway, /rant.

I just read that Chery sold 2.6M vehicles last year! That makes them bigger than Subaru, Mitsubishi and Mazda. These Chinese automakers…

Just to be clear, the competition isn't much better - modern diesels are just kind of fragile these days, and not even Toyota are immune.…

The 100 series LC with the 1HD 6cyl engines were pretty good. All their other diesels have had problems ranging from moderate to serious.

I agree with you other than their diesel engines. Compared to the competition they are not better than average.

Fantastic! Bought a 3rd Gen Prius new in 2010. Put 340,000 trouble free kilometres on it until 2021 when I moved to an EV. Handed it down…

Thank you, also agree with your points. I just don't think this car is worth even this low price with how severe the battery degradation…

No worries, glad to help. I also read the Cupra post and thought the negatives outweighed the positives. There's no perfect car I guess!

>You sure an air cooled lithium ion battery would last longer than lifepo4? I'll expand on this point for anybody who doesn't understand…

> The motor is the transmission Technically EV's do have a single speed transmission in between the motor and the differential, but no…

Yes!

This is all so obviously a result of the Trump Effect. Corporations everywhere are back-pedalling as quickly as they can on the…

Correct. There have been deaths from chargers lacking sufficient mains isolation:…

One thing that has become apparent about Tesla is the fantastic build quality coming out of their Shanghai plant. I've got a 2021 M3 with…

We have an 8kg Beko purchased 4 years ago. Nearly daily use washing heaps of kids clothes and it hasn't missed a beat. I think the current…

Exactly. Not to mention that the Landcruiser in that article has absolutely no relation to the one in this thread - different chassis,…

OOS at this seller, but here's another seller at the same price: https://amzn.asia/d/4naoehG

Near the end of the article you posted: >"the motor is not the original. “The car originally had a 2H motor and then my brother decided…

Yeah pretty much agree with all the figures you've stated for an average person using them. No doubt LFP is more robust than Ternary…

Yes Tesla. There is a battery test available in the service menu that fully drains the battery from 100% down to 0% then charges back up to…

Bugger. Fixed under warranty?

>Charge all types of batteries to 60-80% constantly with the occasional 100% charge and they will last for ages. Completely agree. Another…

You're absolutely right, and the latest research confirms that LFP suffers accelerated wear from charging to 100% just as NMC does:…

The latest research has established that charging LFP to 100% produces proportionally similar (i.e high) wear to NMC. Here's the readers…

We just bought a Sharp SM327FHS. Super powerful, good interface - can't say anything bad about it

I haven't noticed this on ours at work. We've got 3 different Panasonic inverter models, two recent and one about 10 years old. They all…

No idea. My Mrs specifically bought a Sharp microwave because of this, so its costing them sales I think.

No worries!