China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities

A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant.

But do the country's weed-infested auto graveyards brimming with abandoned battery-powered vehicles reveal the dark side of this EV shift? Dan Murtaugh reports.
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[tdrbrt]

China has massive steel recycling capacity. They'll recycle all those cars and build something else with the materials. It's convenient inventory.

[nobodyyyyy]

Coming soon to the US... cars thrown away like iPods instead of 20-30 years lifespan

[ebo]

EVs have green plates since 2016. Why I see blue plates in this video?

[basbekjenl]

I wonder who paid for these cars, they don't get produced for free so someone is losing a lot with all these cars rotting away outdoors. It's a firehazzard, once one starts burning the whole field will go up in flames.

[liltom]

Why not sell those to ASEAN countries at 50% discount?? At least you would get something than nothing

[rolandmills-personalfinanc]

That’s pretty cool actually. Redwood materials can collect them and recycle the battery material into new vehicles. Very little waste

[shopwithjames]

China sells millions of EV's a year. How many did we see in this video? Were these unwanted cars not fit for sale? Context matters, Bloomberg.

[InnovativeSustainableSolutions]

Obvious horsepoop. People dig through the trash for Aluminum cans, but you think theyre leaving ALL the Litium in those car batteries in the trash. Lithium goes for $50, 000/ton

[michellehavik]

well it was a political scam to let see the world that they are the best selling at EV cars. so these cars are afterwarts dumped.. thats the simple sort truth..

[scribe]

These cars will start to catch on fire when the corrosion reaches the old batteries.

[AmigaA-orhj]

It’s like the early 2000s when Rover Group made too many cars. They were dumped in the field and left to rot.

[chocobocooki]

good cover/report please fix the mic peaking and buzzing.

[GrandTerr]

It's like there are no regular cars graveyards smh

[friedpan]

I don't know if it's just my phone, but your sound is horrible when it spikes. Just wanted to let you know.
Ps: Still very informative of a video

[NikeQ]

the plants growing inside are the green part

[ottowillumnielsen]

Where in Hangzhou? Never seen the place, can i have the location?

[reasongether]

I have to wonder if all those EVs still have their battery packs inside them. From what I have seen, if one starts on fire, all those cars will be engulfed shortly therafter. Probably would be visible from space in the space station at night! New Global Warming issue to contend with.

[joel.]

They will just recycle these materials and make more iphones to sell to Americans.😅😅😅😅😅

[moooks]

Capitalism is the answer thanks Xinjiang ping

[scottmorris]

Interesting comment - but do you seriously believe that idiotic and unnecessary background music is actually a BENEFIT? Or maybe someone is incapable of doing their own thing and instead follows the crowd!

IT AIN'T NECESSARY! DUMP IT!