{"id":43154,"date":"2023-08-28T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lethal-industry.com\/?p=43154"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:39:25","slug":"vast-ev-graveyards-spring-up-in-china-with-abandoned-electric-cars-left-to-rot-and-theyre-all-the-same-colour-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lethal-industry.com\/world-news\/vast-ev-graveyards-spring-up-in-china-with-abandoned-electric-cars-left-to-rot-and-theyre-all-the-same-colour-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Vast 'EV graveyards' spring up in China with abandoned electric cars left to rot – and they're all the same colour | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

HUNDREDS of electric cars have been left to rot in eerie graveyards that have been springing up across China.<\/p>\n

Shocking footage has emerged showing endless rows of almost identical vehicles piling up in a field in the city of Hangzhou.<\/p>\n


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These "EV graveyards" have been seen on and off since around 2019 in at least half a dozen Chinese cities.<\/p>\n

Some motors have sat there for so long that plants are sprouting from their trunks. <\/p>\n

Others have been discarded in such a hurry that fluffy toys still sit on their dashboards.<\/p>\n

But whether they are an old or new addition to the car cemetery, nearly all the vehicles are white – along with a few silver or light blue tones.<\/p>\n

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This is likely due to the fact that Chinese customers tend to choose lighter tones for electric vehicles, and because these are preferred colours for ride-sharing app cars.<\/p>\n

But the failure of these shared ridding companies might explain the astonishing number of abandoned vehicles.<\/p>\n

There are now around 100 Chinese electric car makers,\u00a0down from roughly 500 in 2019, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of ride-hailing companies were created in the past decade, taking advantage of government incentives.<\/p>\n

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But when those were slashed in 2019, plenty went under and had to ditch their fleet of vehicles.<\/p>\n

The mass abandonment of the cars also came partly from\u00a0the rapid rise of China\u2019s EV industry. <\/p>\n

As new and better models were being rolled out from several manufacturers at light speed, existing vehicles quickly became outdated. <\/p>\n

Instead of selling the obsolete models into the second-hand market, it was easier and perhaps cheaper to just abandon them in an empty field.<\/p>\n

Local media reports claim that the government of Hangzhou had vowed to dispose of the cars, which started to accumulate in 2019. <\/p>\n

But more than 200 white cars were found carelessly parked in the same field, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n

They were all manufactured by Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., and seemed to be operated by ride-hailing companies Didi Chuxing Technology Co. and Faststep Automobile Management.<\/p>\n

All had blue plates, indicating they were made and registered before December 2017, when Hangzhou switched to green plates for new-energy vehicles. <\/p>\n

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Registration stickers showed some would have been running on roads until as recently as 2021.<\/p>\n

A similar situation happened to the country\u2019s bike-sharing market in 2018, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of bicycles being abandoned across China.<\/p>\n


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