Last year I bought a $2,000 electric mini-pickup truck from China. Here’s how it’s holding up

last yr i found an super-looking electric mini-truck on a chinese language shopping

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website and decided I definitely needed to have it. With a $2,000

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sticky label rate, I figured it became risky, but that I wouldn’t lose the farm if

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the transaction went tires up. And so I launched into one of the most

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eldritch automobile purchases of my existence. China’s little electric powered cars

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I’ve spent years looking the chinese language electric vehicle industry

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develop. I’m not talking approximately the Tesla imitators and other

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mainstream chinese language EVs. I’m talking about the quirky, bizarre

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