I’d guess people will get used to the brand names. Hyundai was like that too. Most people will eventually settle on some bastardized pronunciation of the name, like this guy.
super popular in Australia (we have no quotas and no tarrfis)
still a lot of sinophobia but that was the case way back as well. An example, my Grandfather was in WW2 and he said he would disowned my dad if he bought a Toyota when I was a teen (am 60 now). And when Sth Korea launched their cars they’re were laughed at.
Yeah there’d be a huge dummy spit here if suddenly barriers were thrown up to Chinese…cars in Australia. Lots of people driving them, using them as battery backup for home solar systems.
i used V2L on mine once during a power outage, a storm took out some trees that took out some power lines. Mine comes with a 3 plug GPO, one end to the car charge port for power, the other one extension cord to the fridge, one to the freezer and the other to a couple LED desk lamps, router and NBN box and USB charger. We’d lost power for about 2 days. Barley budged the battery level in the car.
V2H and V2G will become more of a thing as well eventually although lots of folks are busy installing home batteries.
Yeah they’ve been a game changer and they’re helping us build a very resilient grid. If I owned it’d be a no brained for me as well. I’d have one and I’d have it plugged to solar.
I think market-specific branding would help Chinese companies in the west.
I’d guess people will get used to the brand names. Hyundai was like that too. Most people will eventually settle on some bastardized pronunciation of the name, like this guy.
Most reasonable people won’t care, but I think a measurable percentage would be turned off by it, which you don’t want when entering a market.
It’s easy to drive a Merc, Benz, Bimmer, Chevy, Ford, or V-dub.
It’s harder (heh) to say “whoa he’s drives a Dong”
“I’ll be there in 5 minutes, look for a black Dong”
Idk maybe it’s easier after all.
Won’t be an issue 10 years in and global brand value is more important, especially when entering a market to compete on price rather than on prestige.
“did you see that Dong run the light?”
I have no idea how to pronounce it correctly. Hi-oon-day? I say hun-day
Rhymes with Sunday and pronounce the first Y.
super popular in Australia (we have no quotas and no tarrfis)
still a lot of sinophobia but that was the case way back as well. An example, my Grandfather was in WW2 and he said he would disowned my dad if he bought a Toyota when I was a teen (am 60 now). And when Sth Korea launched their cars they’re were laughed at.
Yeah there’d be a huge dummy spit here if suddenly barriers were thrown up to Chinese…cars in Australia. Lots of people driving them, using them as battery backup for home solar systems.
i used V2L on mine once during a power outage, a storm took out some trees that took out some power lines. Mine comes with a 3 plug GPO, one end to the car charge port for power, the other one extension cord to the fridge, one to the freezer and the other to a couple LED desk lamps, router and NBN box and USB charger. We’d lost power for about 2 days. Barley budged the battery level in the car.
V2H and V2G will become more of a thing as well eventually although lots of folks are busy installing home batteries.
Yeah they’ve been a game changer and they’re helping us build a very resilient grid. If I owned it’d be a no brained for me as well. I’d have one and I’d have it plugged to solar.
Because Scion sold so well right?
Everybody worldwide knows about BYD.