On December 23, Deutsche Welle released a report: [German**: Austria** wants to buy a Chinese car, is it a blessing or a curse?]】
Austria** will buy Chinese-made electric vehicles, or at least that is possible. Moreover, there was no one forcing the Austrian state authorities to do this, but someone might have taken the initiative to order it. The opposition Austrian Freedom Party attacked the ** plan in this way'Eliminate jobs', the SPD also believes that ** is using several official cars'Destruction of the Austrian car market'。"
This report is very interesting, and the topic it wants to discuss is very clear.
If it was placed a few decades ago, it may be regarded as a big fool when talking about this topic - Chinese cars, Austria ** bought them, nothing more than European brand cars made in China, and in the end they essentially bought the products of the Europeans themselves, which is nothing more than giving the lowest value part to the Chinese.
According to the International Energy Agency's Global EV Outlook 2023 released in the first half of 2023, China, Europe and the United States dominate global sales, with Chinese EV sales accounting for 60% of global EV sales.
Of these 60% of sales, there are very few European brands, and most of them are local Chinese brands. (I don't know how Tesla's exports are counted, it shouldn't be included).
The fact is that Europeans are a little scared of China's new energy vehicles singing all the way overseas.
So this time the Europeans can't sit still, and the opposition party in Austria believes that the low quality of Chinese cars is due to the fact that hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on subsidies every year, and it is not the real competitiveness of Chinese cars.
But in fact, although China did carry out large-scale subsidies on new energy vehicles in the early days, but now the subsidies have basically stopped, the competitiveness of Chinese cars comes entirely from the electrification and intelligence brought by "corner overtaking", and at the same time, the mature industry and the fiercely competitive market are also constantly reducing the cost of electric vehicles.
What's more interesting is that Europeans are actually very welcoming to Chinese cars at the earliest, and some even give praise to China's new energy vehicles - at the beginning of 2023, China's new energy vehicle BYD entered the European market and attracted widespread attention abroad. The local mainstream TV station DW Deutsche Welle and well-known German automobiles** tested BYD ATTO3 and gave wide praise.
But the Europeans seem to have forgotten about it.
In fact, the brand that Austria plans to purchase this time is BYD.
Interestingly, BYD is actually building factories in Europe.
It can be said that the concerns of the Austrian opposition parties are basically nonsense.
After all, BYD has taken the initiative to build factories in Europe to build cars, and copy China's first chain to the European region, so that the European people can benefit, and at the same time provide more jobs for the European people.
Then for those opposition in Europe, there is no reason to sanction Chinese car companies.