Chinese BEV

Dave Wickham · Monday at 1:30 PM

It appears a Chinese electric bus in Norway has been found with a kill switch!!! First trade dispute and they can turn everything off. Was this not the concern about using Chinese software to control the reactor at Sizewell C? None of this is surprising. Pretty good reason to NEVER buy a Chinese BEV. I wouldn't touch one with a 20 foot barge pole even if they were giving them away.

Hundreds of British buses have Chinese 'kill switch'

dspuk · Monday at 2:07 PM

On reading the actual Torygraph and GB "News" article the words could, believe and may are spread throughout.

It's classic tin foil clickbait.

One assumes the same issues apply if using VW that if Germany were to start WW3 they could also do the same to our VW via the OTA update. Or India on my Defender. Etc.

Dave Wickham · Monday at 2:12 PM

The Chinese government have previous!! You have forgotten the recent spying case involving those 2 Brits last month. The comparisons with VW and Germany are far fetched.

dspuk · Monday at 2:15 PM

Dave Wickham said:
The Chinese government have previous!! You have forgotten the recent spying case involving those 2 Brits last month. The comparisons with VW and Germany are far fetched.

Personally I'm here for Cali chat and chaps. So I'll bow out of this politik convo and leave you to it.

andyinluton · Monday at 2:21 PM

Its not just the Chinese.

There are a lot of Porsches in Russia that wont work at the moment - its the Vehicle tracking system loosing contact with the satellites & assuming the cars been stolen & immobilising it.

The Russian dealers are blaming the West, some owners are blaming the Russian dealers as apparently for a hefty fee they can override the system & get the cars going again.