SC01 price has just been announced, 229800 RMB or about 24,000 GBP. Yyyyeeeesssss!

Just out. Elliot Richards and I clocked up over 20,000 steps exploring the truly enormous Shanghai Autoshow. Here’s our report, make a cup of tea and sit back to enjoy youtu.be/0zq-qjHayxg?...

I have come to realisation that Autoshows are a way to punish the Journo’s after a year of having to be nice to them. Crushingly hard work covering acres of new launches 😂

@bobbyllew.bsky.social and I are doing a livestream today at 4pm China, 6pm Sydney and 9am UK - come and join us on Everything Electric Australasia! Come and chat about the autoshow, Robert’s thoughts or anything else… youtube.com/live/D3gOV5p...

Today is a day with the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra

This is some great trolling from SC01 sports car (the EV Lotus should have made)

Join me tonight on EV Cafe to talk about China! Info below

Right - my review has dropped of the icar V23 - I am a huge fan of this SUV even though it’s a bit disappointing to drive… The CHERY ICAR V23 is NOT BORING youtu.be/su99N5G_XHY

This is what happens when the public has 1500hp under their right foot. Irresponsible.

I wonder what’s happening at Sydney Showground this weekend? au.everythinglectric.show

This is what happens when you sell a car with 1500hp to go on the public roads with no training. Only a scrape but I fear much worse coming. The new Xiaomi SU7 Ultra

Only a week to go to our amazing event in Sydney. The widest range of electric cars we’ve ever had at a show available for test drives, plus huge range of energy and money saving home tech and amazing talks and panel discussions. Everythingelectric.show

Yoooo, I heard you like INTERESTING looking EVs. I’ve got one for you today that costs $14,000 and looks like this… (video coming soon)

I made a video about the Price Wars in China and how this will impact EU brands the most…

The legacy auto death spiral continues (even though BMW may be better placed than their rivals)

Holy smokes. Legacy auto has lost 1/3 of its market share in China in 4 YEARS. Death spiral incoming

I think BMW may be one of the best placed of the German legacy manufacturers to compete with Chinese EVs if they get the Neue Klasse right. Already buzz in China around these. Just need to drop their hydrogen ambitions.

This is going out on YouTube later - a sneak peak at how BYDs Gods Eye system actually works on the road in real life…

Check it out - this is the car that other automakers are afraid of. And they should be…

EV FTW

Are YOU bored of the Zeekr MIX? Want it to be the cutest car ever? Well thanks to the tuning chaps at iAcro, they did this…

I went to BYDs ‘tech day’ last night and here they are casually displaying 29 of their cars…a vast difference to 4 years ago for the factory visit.

I don’t think the IM (MG/SAIC) L6 is selling very well in China. I know a dealer who often unloads cars which are not selling well - he had a lot of Polestar 2s for about $16k. Now he has these L6s for about $21k USD. Base model but brand new. Brutal year ahead for these brands.

Whatever your attitude is to China, there is now no denying they are way, way ahead in renewable energy, battery technology and specifically electric vehicles. Our man Elliot Richards spent some time inside the ultra spacious Zeekr Mix. youtu.be/2pxV-J-oOnI

This is a super rare spot in China! A KIA EV5 - they are having a big push this year so will be interesting to see how they stack up against the competition.

Want to know the struggle that legacy car companies have in a Chinese mall? Look below…

I love seeing these around - not many left in China now

Happy Chinese new year!

Real photos of the SC01 out testing in Tianjin over CNY! I’m getting a feeling we might be driving this soon

Updates on the Small Sports Car! It’s just been registered with MIIT - basically meaning its production ready and will likely be launched in the next 6 months as it’s passed government approvals. Name now just ‘01’ and not ‘SC01’. Exciting times!

I guess that’s one use for solar panels

China has a new legit supercar. It’s ’only’ 175k usd - compared to the 2m of the rimac and evija a bargain. Smothered in Carbon fibre it’s a really sterling first attempt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl1r...

From NIOs most expensive car to their most affordable - the small high end car for global markets- Firefly…what do you think?

Here’s the new NIO ET9 - a Landjet for the road

I’m at NIO Day to see the launch of the new ET9 and small Firefly brand- there’s 22,000 people here in an arena…what other EV brand has this engaged community?

This is why EVs or PHEVs should not be 800+hp (or even 400hp) - more accidents, higher repair costs and longer time to repair. No-one needs all that power. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/fea...

Sooo @xpeng just sent their first batch of G6 EVs to Australia on the boat this week, at the same time the first Chinese Smart EV brand to reach 10,000 sales in Europe.

I’m going to point to this post right here when people ask how electrification is going in China. Those companies who still rely on selling mostly ICE cars (Toyota et al.) will suffer the most.

We visited a solar factory! It was enlightening

We finished our part 2 of the Silk Road video but it’s languishing with around 1000 views - I would love it if you could take a look (I like this one the most). Stars, Rockets and bad Connery impressions inside 👀 youtu.be/kk0g1RMrV6c?...

Yes it’s a big SUV and it’s PHEV (there is a full EV version) but for about £60k GBP it does full off roading stuff as evidenced by the mud and the massive grin on our faces. Proper wading and locking diffs. Watch out Land Rover. It’s called MHERO…

This year has seen me take on long distance EV journeys - close to 2000km per journey in remote areas of China. It’s been so easy to do with manufacturers own networks as well as state run ones. The only issue has been poor parking etiquette but that’s it. What are your experiences?

This was my first weekend off in months. No driving, no filming, no nothing. Getting ready for this SSR video edit soon.

Hello bluesky! I’m Elliot, I live in Shanghai, China and cover EVs and clean energy from the country. I post videos on my own channel on YouTube as well as Fully Charged show amongst other channels. Here’s a snippet from my latest video below. I would love to connect!