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The video opens with a field of over 10,000 Netavie Chinese EVs and BYD cars, all 2021 models, with license plates and fully registered, yet left to rot. The host claims that these cars are counted in China’s EV sales statistics, helping China appear to outpace the rest of the world in EV adoption. The argument is that China uses shortcuts and facades: large numbers of cars are parked in fields but are not actually sold. BYD and other brands allegedly register and put cars on the market to claim they have sold them, while surplus vehicles are dumped into fields.
The host then connects this practice to broader “investment schemes” in China. He describes a pattern where fly-by-night investment schemes attract capital around new ideas, such as bicycle sharing, which created mountains of discarded bikes as investors poured money in. When these schemes collapsed, people moved on to shared electric vehicles. A documentary referenced, No Place to Place, shows drone footage of abandoned shared bikes and later, fields of abandoned electric vehicles in 2019, illustrating the shift from bikes to shared cars as the new money grab.
According to the host, the shared-car model was viable in theory but pursued as a Ponzi-like scheme: companies pumped out vehicles to continue receiving investments without solid market research or viability, leading to vast fields of abandoned vehicles that will rot. Since these are electric, their batteries add a second layer of environmental concern. The batteries require complex mining and chemical processes, with alleged human rights abuses such as child or slave labor in battery production. The discarded cars therefore create environmental damage not only from manufacturing but also from long-term disposal and leakage of chemicals.
The host argues that this practice causes environmental damage twice: first in the creation of the cars and their batteries, and second in their abandonment and degradation in the fields. He contends that China’s green-initiative image is largely a facade designed to attract investment, enabling profiteering from wasteful projects rather than genuine environmental benefit. He asserts that China’s opacity shields such activities from scrutiny; in the West, similar actions would attract media attention, fines, and accountability, but in China, these issues remain unaddressed.
The overall claim is that China’s touted green technology leadership masks environmental crimes and profit-driven schemes that rely on misleading sales figures and large, abandoned fleets of electric vehicles, and that investors should think twice before investing in China.