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Hi, I'm George. Welcome to Maddy Wee, where we offer you the first hand reviews of Chinese

EVs and in-depth analysis of the market and industry.

You must be wondering why we a cup of Chinese are doing our English show on Chinese Intelligent

EVs. Please give me a few minutes to tell you the answer.

A few years ago, when I was a gearbox engineer at Shanghai Volkswagen, the joint venture

car makers was preparing to launch its first indigenous model in China.

The LaVida, the vehicle used a brand new name, adopted the design style that is completely

different from the previous Volkswagen cars. However, it managed to increase the comfortability

using an old, but cost-controllable P-34 platform. Because of the Volkswagen's popularity

in China, that year, the sales number of this 20,000 euro car went through the roof at

its peak. It can sales 50,000 units per month.

At that time, I would never have thought that 15 years later, in 2022, China's automobile

market would sell 5 million electrical powered cars, accounting for more than 25% of the

market shares. Although this includes products like PHEV that still run on engines, the era

of the Intelligent EV has truly arrived.

Here's another fact. 13 years ago, when I first tested the F3DM dual-model electrical

cars, that has just been tried out in BYD's test field. I thought they were really crazy.

The car borrowed the architecture from Toyota Corolla, the old one, but it was also equipped

with batteries, motors, and controllers. It also had, of course, an engine. After driving

this car, its poor driving experience and clumsy power control made it difficult for

me to understand why would they have made such a terrible car, but they firmly believe

that it will definitely be the future.

Today, BYD, the same company, has been selling 200,000 cars every month in China. These cars

are all EV and the PHEV products. The fact that it became the sales champion by company

and by brand in Chinese market, with the production of the traditional fuel powered cars, means

that the mainstream market of the new car consumption in China already belongs to the EVs.

Are you curious about what has happened to BYD and other automobile manufacturers during

the last 30 years? What has changed in the consumer market in China? Has everyone gone mad?

Or has the whole industry really stepped into a new era? As an expert who has been engaged

in the automobile industry in China for 15 years, I'm here to expose the answers with you

in our show.

You may think the market introduced in our video is too far away and this intention to

EVs sold in China will never appear in your country. But what I want to say is that things

are developing much faster than you think. In 2022, many consumers in Europe have been

able to buy EVs from China's excellent car makers such as BYD and NEO. And consumers

in Southeast Asia and Australia have gradually become familiar with Chinese car brands.

You can even see BYD launching new cars in Japan. Maybe in two or three years, this

interesting and even slightly crazy EVs will appear in the car dealership near you.

As petrolhead and engineers, we used to think EVs are mad, but now we are mad about it.

That's how the name Maddie V came from. And just like our slogan says, the truth of Chinese

EVs and more. We hope to introduce you to some magical changes that take place in China's

automobile industry such as iconic products, grand braking technologies, market and consumer

trend of intelligent EVs in the world largest new car market. Here you will find facts, opinions

and many unique perspectives, as well as our experience and judgment accumulated in the

past 15 years. We hope to present you the inks and outs of Chinese-integent EV and market

intuitively and clearly.

We will be uploading twice a week. Why is a car reveal hosted by my colleague? Who graduated

from Tongji University with a major in automotive engineering? For the past seven years, he has

been a professional tester driver of our company, driving more than 80 different new cars

every year. It's perfect for him to introduce the youth and the product experience of the

new EVs in China.

Another one is a market analysis hosted by me as a professional technical and market analyst

in the industry. I will be discussing an interesting and normal topic of EV with you every week.

If you are working in the automobile industry or you just interested in the automobile market,

trends and new technologies, you have to stay tuned to our program for more unreviewed

technologies. That will definitely surprise you.

Each week, we will be introduced a Chinese new EV and talk about the latest topic on the

market technology and industry. If you find our program useful, please make sure to like,

comment, subscribe and share it with your friends so that more people can see what real

EV and consumer markets are in China. After all, your support is what drives us to

keep on.

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