I Spent 10 Days In China Testing Electric Cars! Here's What Happened
发布时间 2025-01-28 15:01:06 来源
And welcome to another out of spec reviews video and actually welcome to just a upcoming start to a series that I'm so excited to share with you. I just landed back in America from China and then the UAE. I spent two weeks on the road exploring electric cars and other markets. Now, that's not really anything new for this channel. Of course, we're based in America, but we do travel to Europe quite often and other places to explore EVs.
欢迎来到另一集出色评测的视频节目，同时也欢迎你加入一个我非常兴奋要与大家分享的新系列。我刚从中国和阿联酋回到美国，在外面呆了两周探索电动车和其他市场。当然，这对这个频道来说并不新鲜。我们虽然总部设在美国，但经常到欧洲和其他地方去探索电动车。
However, this was the big trip that I've been wanting to make for years. And I think the timing was perfect and our experiences were absolutely insane and eye opening. I was able to spend 10 days testing new and interesting electric cars in China. We looked at charging infrastructure, new vehicles, vehicle factory tours, charging performances, a bunch of stuff. I think in total, we shot 15 to 25 different individual episodes for you. I have to compile all the footage and get it together in the upcoming weeks for you guys to see.
但是，这是我多年来一直想要进行的一次重要旅行。我觉得时机非常完美，我们的经历也绝对是惊人的、令人难以置信的。我有机会在中国花10天时间测试新颖有趣的电动汽车。我们考察了充电基础设施、新车、参观了汽车工厂、测试了充电性能，还有很多其他内容。我估计，总共为你们拍摄了15到25集不同的独立节目。我需要在接下来的几周里整理所有的素材，然后呈现给大家观看。
But what I want to do is really encapsulate the whole trip. So you know what videos are coming. You know the timeline of how it all played out. My impressions on the trip and yeah, just just the overall feeling of what it was like as a car enthusiast spending time in China. So it starts now are out of spec China series. Well, if you're watching this video at sometime in the future, it is very early 2025. I went in January 2025 to mostly the Shanghai area. But we also did a couple road trips up to Beijing, out to have Fay, some other places, which was amazing. And I think in general, from the American perspective is how I've treated the trip. And we we went over to China.
我想做的是全面概括整个旅程，这样你就知道接下来会有哪些视频，以及整个过程的时间线。我要分享我对这次旅行的印象，以及作为一个汽车爱好者在中国度过的时光总体感觉。现在就开始我们的"超规格中国"系列。如果你是在未来某个时候看这个视频，那时是2025年年初。我是在2025年1月去的，主要是在上海地区，但我们也进行了几次到北京、合肥及其他地方的自驾游，这些都很棒。我是从美国人的视角来体验这次旅行的。这次，我们去了中国。
Well, I guess let me talk about the car market in general. So the car market in general is completely worlds different between US, Europe, let's just say the Western world and China. I mean, it is absolutely an insane stark difference as to what people are buying, what they're interested in, vehicle pricing, vehicle features, vehicle capabilities. And that's what I wanted to go film. I'm not here to say everything is better over in China because it certainly isn't. But I'm certainly here to show like, Oh, there's some really cool stuff that makes interesting videos for you guys. And we've learned a lot about things.
好的，那么让我谈谈汽车市场的总体情况。整体而言，美国、欧洲，也就是所谓的西方世界和中国的汽车市场截然不同。可以说，人们购买的车型、他们的兴趣所在、车辆价格、车辆特征和性能都存在着巨大的差异。这也是我想去拍摄的原因。我并不是要说中国的所有东西都更好，因为事实并非如此。但我确实想展示一些非常酷的东西，给大家带来有趣的视频内容，同时我们也从中学到了很多东西。
So just as a highlight, I've charged an EV faster than I've ever charged an electric car. I've seen electric vans that are just the craziest, coolest vehicles on the planet. And the biggest takeaway for me is even the crappiest shitbox new cars that are sold in China are like fully vertically integrated software like with Tesla equivalent, you know, response time on the screen and fantastic driver assistance systems really in the US Tesla FSD at the time of this recording is the only driver assistance system that is just clearly designed to operate in the future and can do so much today on and off the highway. In China, that's like normal. And there's multiple competing systems that can do like what FSD does.
作为重点，我体验过比以往任何时候都更快的电动车充电。我见过一些非常疯狂又酷的电动货车。对我来说，最大的感悟是，即使是在中国销售的一些看起来很差的新车，它们的软件系统都是完全垂直整合的，就像特斯拉那样，屏幕响应速度很快，还有出色的驾驶辅助系统。录制时，美国的特斯拉完全自动驾驶是唯一一个明显为未来设计的驾驶辅助系统，不管是在高速公路上还是下高速，都能够做很多事情。在中国，这样的系统已经很普遍，而且有多个竞争系统能做到类似于特斯拉完全自动驾驶的功能。
So what I want to do is actually go through my X feed, my Twitter feed, because that's where I kind of document everything. I know not everyone uses X. So I do post on Instagram threads and some others as well. But X is just the easiest thing for me to get on boom, go and a lot of our viewers are there, which is why I post there. So let me walk you through the trip. And it all starts day one landing in Shanghai.
我想做的是浏览一下我的X平台，也就是我的Twitter，因为我在那里记录了一切。我知道不是每个人都使用X，所以我也在Instagram的Threads和其他平台上发布内容。但X对我来说是最方便的，可以快速发布，而且我们很多观众都在那上面，所以我会在那里发帖。那么，让我带你回顾一下这次旅行吧，一切都从第一天降落在上海开始。
So let me queue up the screen here. We should be good to go. And yes, so we landed. And at the Shanghai airport, we landed in Shanghai Pudong Airport, which I guess is like the eastern side airport. There's two major airports in Shanghai. Humongous city, it takes like almost two hours in the middle of the day to go from one side to the other. It's absolutely wild. And our good friends drew in Alice, arranged a Lee Auto mega to pick us up from the airport. Now, the plan was to shoot a full review of the Lee mega and show its charging performance and do all this stuff. But that's the one regret from the trip that I have. And really, I think we got everything else in. We never shot a full video with the Lee mega.
让我来把屏幕调出来。应该是准备好了。是的，我们降落了。在上海机场，我们是在上海浦东机场降落的，我猜是位于东边的机场。上海有两个主要机场。这个城市非常大，中午时分从一个地方到另一个地方几乎需要两个小时，真是太疯狂了。我们的好朋友德鲁和爱丽丝安排了一辆理想汽车来接我们。原本计划是拍摄一段关于理想汽车的完整评测视频，展示它的充电性能等等。但是，这是我此次旅行唯一的遗憾。我觉得我们其他的事情都做到了，就是没有拍摄一段完整的理想汽车视频。
So I think this is a good opportunity to tell you a little bit about this particular vehicle. So it's a electric van, in a sense, it's built by Lee Auto. And it's, I believe, their first battery electric model. Lee is incredibly popular in China. Driving around, you'll see L six seven eight nine, the L nine is sick. It's like a Mercedes GLS, but like this range extended EV thing. And that's really why they've gotten so popular. And E-rebs are incredibly common in China. Where you'll have a small turbocharged combustion three or four cylinder engine powering purely a generator that feeds the high voltage battery pack. So you can drive it like an EV.
我认为这是一个很好的机会，告诉你一些关于这款特定汽车的信息。这是一款电动面包车，由理想汽车制造。据我所知，这是他们首款电池电动车型。理想汽车在中国非常受欢迎，路上你会看到L6、L7、L8、L9，其中L9特别受欢迎。这款车就像是梅赛德斯的GLS，但它是一种增加了续航的电动车型，这也是为什么它们如此受欢迎的原因。增程式电动车（E-REV）在中国非常常见，这种车有一个小型涡轮增压的三缸或四缸发动机，单纯用于为发电机供电，从而为高压电池组充电，让你可以像驾驶电动车一样使用。
But then when you go out into the distance, go out on the road trip. Yeah, you have your combustion engine to work with you. And actually, in case you didn't know, China's a huge country. And so having an extended range EV option does actually make some sense, especially as home charging can be challenging for some. And also road trip challenging during, you know, we were there just before Chinese New Year. So charging stations were starting to get a little bit busier. And we never had to wait in line, but we did like drive past some full charging stations. And you know, having just a small combustion engine as a, as a little backup power source is a really cool idea.
但当你出门远行时，比如进行长途旅行，是的，你可以使用内燃机来帮助你。其实，或许你不知道，中国是一个非常大的国家。因此，拥有一个续航能力较长的电动车选项确实有一定的道理，特别是对于一些家庭充电不太方便的人来说。而且在旅行期间，尤其是在我们春节前去的时候，各地的充电站开始变得有些忙碌。我们虽然不需要排队，但路过了一些已满的充电站。因此，拥有一个小型内燃机作为备用电源是个很不错的主意。
We didn't test any of those this trip. We just focused on battery electric vehicles, but I will be back. And I do think it's something we should keep our eye on, because it's an interesting sort of stop gap. I much prefer that technology than to a plug in hybrid technology. So Drew and Alice picked us up in the Lee mega. And it's such a awesome looking van. I mean, personally, I think it's like this really cool, almost dust buster shape. There's Drew and Alice there. And this was our first experience getting into China. Let me turn off the audio there. But we're just cruising along, you know, with these two mega screens with this fantastic driver assistance with fantastic suspension control.
这次旅行中我们没有测试那些东西。我们只专注于电动汽车，但我会回来的。我确实认为这是值得关注的，因为它是一种有趣的过渡技术。我比插电式混合动力技术更喜欢这种技术。Drew 和 Alice 开着 Lee Mega 接我们。这辆面包车真是太酷了，我觉得它的形状就像一台时尚的吸尘器。Drew 和 Alice 在那里。这是我们第一次体验中国的感觉。我先把声音关掉。我们就这样轻松地行驶着，有两块巨大的屏幕，还有非常棒的驾驶辅助和悬挂控制系统。
And I'm like, whoa, this is really nice. And it actually turned out that the Lee mega was one of our favorite cars from the entire trip that we tested and played around with. We did end up taking it to a charging station and some other things. And perhaps I'll do a whole podcast episode about the Lee mega. But I was really impressed with that particular vehicle. In China, the response is not as strong as we had. I don't know if it's just it's new to us. And it's cool. But a lot of people we spoke to in the Chinese market, friends of ours over there said that the Lee mega isn't selling well. And it's not due to anything of the technical capabilities of the vehicle. It's just because it's ugly. They think they think it looks like a coffin. I guess there was a big social media thing. And everyone's like, Oh, it's a coffin on wheels, not into it. And I guess that's a little bit of the Chinese buyer mindset is heavily driven by external perception to what you're driving is is the feeling that I get.
我当时觉得，哇，这车真的挺不错。这辆Lee Mega成为了我们整个旅行中测试和体验过的最喜欢的车之一。我们确实把它开去了充电站及其他地方。或许我会专门做一期播客来聊聊Lee Mega。总之，我对这辆车印象深刻。不过在中国，它的反响并没有我们这边强烈。我不知道是不是因为对我们来说它新奇又酷炫。不过我们在中国市场的朋友普遍表示，Lee Mega的销量并不理想，并不是因为技术上的原因，而是因为它的外观。他们觉得这车看起来像个棺材。我想社交媒体上对此议论纷纷，大家都说“这是一辆轮子上的棺材”，所以不感兴趣。我感觉中国消费者的心态很大程度上受外界对开车的人看法的影响。
We then arrived to our hotel and we saw a first generation Nissan Leaf, except this wasn't a Nissan Leaf. This is a Venucia E 30. And it's essentially a Nissan Leaf, but it's badged as a different brand as this huge logo on the charge port. And yeah, it was really cool to see one of those early Leafs, if you will, but badged as another car. And and honestly, until I saw this car, I didn't even know that the leaf was sold under a different name in the Chinese market all those years ago. I have to give a huge shout out to Neo in this video, because this this trip was not sponsored by anyone.
我们到达酒店时，看到了第一代日产Leaf，不过这个车不是日产Leaf，而是一个名为启辰E30的车型。其实它本质上就是日产Leaf，只是换上了另一个品牌的标志，并且在充电口上有一个巨大的标志。看到这么早期的Leaf车型以另一个品牌的名义出现，感觉非常酷。说实话，在看到这辆车之前，我都不知道原来这么多年以前，Leaf还有在中国市场以其他名字销售的情况。在这段视频里，我必须特别感谢蔚来，因为这次旅行并没有任何赞助。
We flew ourselves over at our own dime. We covered our hotel. Everything was paid by out of spec. However, we did need some local help on the ground, like test cars and, you know, local knowledge on how to get our driving licenses and stuff like that. And Emma at Neo, who is one of their communications people was just incredibly helpful and generous to offer us a test car for our entire trip so that we could keep our bags and drive around and, you know, go from film shoot to film shoot. And for the entire first week, we drove a neo ES six, which is their most popular model. It's sort of a little bit bigger than a model why maybe that kind of size category, but a small mid size electric SUV that supports battery swapping and some other things. We actually didn't totally get a get on with this car.
我们自己花钱买了机票，还支付了酒店的费用，所有费用都自付。然而，我们确实需要一些当地的帮助，比如测试车辆和获取驾照的当地知识等。来自蔚来（Neo）的Emma负责对外沟通，她非常乐于助人，慷慨地为我们提供了一辆测试车，供我们整个旅程使用，这样我们就可以放置行李，并在各个拍摄地点之间开车。整个第一周，我们驾驶的是蔚来的ES6，这是他们最受欢迎的车型，比Model Y稍大一些，属于小型中型电动SUV，支持电池更换等功能。但实际上，我们对这辆车并不是特别满意。
We didn't we didn't fall in love with it. The suspension was really the worst part about it. But we drove other NIOs that we really absolutely fell in love with with air suspension going on road trips. And I'll talk about those. So Neo was really cool to hook us up with the test car. And we'll get into some other things as well. Just going through they even provided because they knew we were going to be road tripping and driving. I thought those were so funny. They put a no me hat. I guess, you know, Neo has like millions of accessories. They equipped our car with a route 66 cowboy hat. So the Americans could go on a road trip, which I just thought was so funny to see it there.
我们没有爱上这款车。悬挂系统确实是它最大的不足之处。但我们试驾了其他配备空气悬挂系统的蔚来汽车，并在公路旅行中彻底爱上了那些车。接下来我会详细谈谈这些体验。蔚来真的很酷，他们给我们提供了试驾车。我们还会讨论其他一些事项。他们知道我们要去公路旅行和驾驶，所以特地为我们准备了一些配件，我觉得这些配件太有趣了。他们给我们的车配备了一个66号公路牛仔帽，让我们这些美国人能够以公路旅行的方式体验，我看到这个搭配时觉得太有趣了。
Continuing on, I just walked around our parking garage a little bit. And I found for the first time that I've ever seen the Volvo EM 90, turns out we actually went into the Volvo EM 90 factory later on in this trip. And we got to to do a bunch with this vehicle and it'll end up in some tours. But it was a really cool experience to see this. I just love these electric Luxo vans. We have zero equivalent to this in the American market. Maybe there's no desire for it. But I just think they're so cool to have these VIP luxury shuttles, family haulers that are that are just super cushy and not performance oriented in any way, just as a great VIP transport or nice family vehicle.
接着，我在我们的停车场附近转了一会儿，第一次看到了沃尔沃EM 90。后来我们在这次旅行中还参观了沃尔沃EM 90的工厂，并有了很多与这款车相关的体验，而且这次经历还会出现在一些导览活动中。看到这款车真是很酷。我非常喜欢这些电动豪华厢式车。在美国市场，我们没有类似的车型。也许市场上没有需求，但我觉得拥有这些VIP豪华接送车、适合家庭的舒适车辆真的很棒。它们不是为了性能而设计，而是作为一款出色的VIP交通工具或优雅的家庭座驾。
The EM 90 is built on the ZEAKER 009 chassis. They they share almost identical components, but costs way more than the ZEAKER 009. And we really can't figure out why. But that will come up in an upcoming video. You will see that just in our hotel parking garage. We stayed downtown Shanghai the first few nights. We had an Audi charging hub. We had a state grid charging hub. A state grid is really built out this pretty incredible network across China of DC fast charging. But I noticed I didn't say high powered DC fast charging. They're all like 60 to 120 kilowatts. Most of them are limited to 250 amps on the cables. And that was a longtime GBT standard up until a few years ago, where some of the reason Chinese cars have gone high voltage ahead of the rest of the market is because so much of their charging infrastructure is amperage limited.
EM 90 是基于 ZEAKER 009 底盘打造的。两者的组件几乎完全相同，但 EM 90 的价格远高于 ZEAKER 009。我们实在搞不清楚为什么，不过我们会在即将发布的视频中深入探讨。我们就住在上海市区的酒店停车场，你会看到相关内容。我们在上海住了头几晚，有一个奥迪充电站，以及国家电网的充电站。国家电网在整个中国建立了一个非常厉害的直流快速充电网络。不过我注意到，我没有说高功率直流快速充电。这些充电站的功率一般都在 60 到 120 千瓦，大部分电缆的电流限制在 250 安培。这是多年来的GBT标准，直到几年之前。有些中国汽车走在市场前列采用高电压的原因，就是因为它们的充电基础设施在电流上有很多限制。
So you really need the high voltage architecture to get meaningful charging speed from 80% of the charging network. And that is changing and flipping. And we're starting to see higher current GBT now goes up to 800 amps, I believe. So it's you know, surpassed most of what we have in the US sort of matching like that V4 supercharger dispenser that can send 900 amps to the cyber truck, which is crazy. And you know, just it's an interesting world we're living in with high current versus high voltage. But in China, we're starting to see like Lee chargers come out, X-Pung chargers come, Neo has 500 kilowatt charging all with higher current and high voltage support, of course, but state grid in general was sort of the, you know, consider like the least reliable network. People would be like, Oh, state grid kind of crappy.
要从80%的充电网络获得有意义的充电速度，确实需要高压架构。而现在，这种情况正在发生变化。我们开始看到GBT的高电流现在可以达到800安培，我相信。这已经超过了美国的大部分充电设施，比如那种V4超级充电器，可以给Cybertruck输送900安培，这真是太疯狂了。我们生活在一个有趣的世界里，高电流和高电压并存。在中国，像理想、蔚来和小鹏这样的公司也推出了充电桩，支持高电流和高电压，能够提供高达500千瓦的充电能力。当然，国家电网总体而言被认为是可靠性较低的网络，人们会说国家电网不太好用。
But they they've seemed to change their image around actually I charged multiple times throughout the trip at their state grid network. And and really had no issues. And I think the most interesting thing is to pay for charging. There's there's some charging apps. Yes. But most of them are like mini apps inside of WeChat or AliPay. Those are the two main applications in China that you use to communicate and pay AliPay just really for payment. But WeChat is kind of your everything app, you hook your credit card up to it, scan a QR code, boom, you're good to go. And it activates the charging it actually worked really well.
他们似乎已经改变了他们的形象，实际上我在旅途中多次使用了他们的国家电网网络进行充电，真的没有遇到什么问题。我觉得最有趣的是支付充电费用的方法。有一些充电应用程序，但大多数就像是微信或支付宝里的小程序。这是中国两个主要的应用，微信用于沟通和支付，而支付宝主要是用于支付。微信就像是一个万能应用，你可以把信用卡绑定到微信上，然后扫描二维码，就可以开始充电了，实际上使用起来非常顺利。
Yes, of course, we ran into a few snags along the way that limited our ability to activate some chargers, some required local phone numbers and stuff like that. Now we know for next trip, get a local phone with a local number, find an address, hook everything up that way. It's the way to go. Also, in our hotel, we just had a line of level two charging stations that was really, really cool to see. And that's fairly common. Every, every parking garage we went into had level two charging, I'd say 80%, even in the rural areas had low powered DC charging. An interesting quirk about our NEOs that they don't have AC chargers on their vehicles. They either support DC charging or battery swapping in that market in Europe. They have AC charging. I don't know why they don't put it on the Chinese cars, but I think it would be good. I think that's a real miss. But yeah, charging infrastructure in all of the parking garages was just insane.
当然，我们在这过程中遇到了一些小问题，影响到了我们启用一些充电桩的能力，比如有些需要当地电话号码等等。现在我们知道了，下次旅行要准备一个有当地号码的手机，找到一个地址，用这种方式连接一切。这是行得通的方法。另外，我们住的酒店有一排二级充电桩，这真是令人惊喜。几乎每个停车场都有二级充电桩，即使在农村地区，我觉得80%甚至有低功率的直流充电。有意思的是，我们的NEO车型在那个市场上没有配置交流充电器，支持的是直流充电或者电池换装。在欧洲，他们是有交流充电的。我不明白为什么他们不在中国车型上安装交流充电器，但我认为这样会更好，这确实是一个遗漏。不过，在所有停车场的充电基础设施都很厉害。
The other insane takeaway, which isn't necessarily car related, but I think you guys will find this interesting was every single parking garage we went into with the exception of just a handful, but you know, almost all of them are also doubled as bomb shelters. You go through these huge blast doors and there's storage units for like gas masks and food supplies and all these other things, all throughout the country, every single parking garage doubles as, you know, I guess a human shelter, which is pretty wild. They're like, they're totally prepared, which is crazy. So the next morning we woke up and we went and this was one of the best experiences of my life actually going to get our Chinese driver's licenses in technicality. It's a driving permit that's only valid for three months or something like this. And it requires us to just bring like a translated version of our American license to a police station. They issue the driving permit, but Neo actually had someone drive us over there, which was super nice. And we sampled some of the snacks on the way they provided. They again, Neo has like a whole accessory line. So they filled up the car, which I thought was so funny with some snacks for our trips, which we really did eat and enjoy. So thank you, Neo for that hashtag not sponsored, but appreciate the food.
另一件特别有意思的事情，尽管和汽车关系不大，但我觉得你们会感兴趣的是，我们去的每个停车场，除了一小部分之外，几乎都可以作为防空洞使用。你会经过巨大的防爆门，里面有储存食物和防毒面具等应急物资。在这个国家的每个地方，几乎所有的停车场都可以当作人防避难所，真是太不可思议了。他们显然做好了充分的准备，这真是让人惊讶。
第二天早上，我们醒来后去办了一个技术上的驾驶证，这是我人生中最棒的经历之一。实际上这只是个临时驾驶许可，有效期大约只有三个月。我们只需要把美式驾照翻译好了带到警察局，他们就会给我们发驾驶许可。但是蔚来公司安排了人开车送我们过去，真的很贴心。路上他们还给我们提供了一些小零食尝试。蔚来有一整条配件产品线，所以他们装满了车作为旅途的零食，我们还真吃得很开心。谢谢蔚来，虽然这不是一句广告，但真的很感谢你们的美食。
Then we sat down at the driving license office in Shanghai at the police station. And they made me and drew watch a 30-minute video on how dangerous driving is. It was like stuff that you probably even couldn't put on YouTube because it would get flagged for like violent content of just cars getting destroyed out on the road. I mean, crazy accidents and like people getting run over and it was nasty and gory and you're watching this person gets, you know, drug under a car. And then they're like, Oh, are you ready for your license? I'm like, Oh my gosh, I don't want to drive after this. But I think that's the point. They're really trying to share, you know, show that driving is a responsibility and you have to be safe. I didn't learn any rules or regulations about the road from this video, just that it must be the most dangerous place on the planet to drive. And in actuality, actual driving in China was actually really great. But they reluctantly handed me my driving permit, which I think is one of the best photos to encapsulate the trip. The guys like, we're really given this dude a license. He's like, what's going on here? And yes, they handed me my driving permit, which I still have with me. And it's valid for three months. So watch out China. And I ended up driving thousands of miles, probably 2,000 2,500 miles throughout our 10 day trip, just exploring. And you know, I love to drive and any opportunity we can. We did. But we also did sample some of the local public transit high power or high speed trains, which was really cool. That was awesome.
然后，我们坐在上海警察局的驾照办证大厅。他们让我和Drew观看了一段30分钟的视频，内容是关于驾驶有多危险。这段视频展示的内容你可能甚至无法在YouTube上看到，因为它会因为暴力内容而被屏蔽，视频展示了在路上被撞毁的汽车。我是说，疯狂的事故，像是有人被撞倒，场面血腥又可怕，你会看到有人被车拖行。看完后，他们问我："你准备好拿驾照了吗？" 我心想，天哪，看完这段视频我不想开车了。但我想这就是他们的目的，真的想传达出驾驶是一种责任，你必须安全驾驶。从视频中我没有学到任何关于道路的规则或法规，只是觉得开车可能是这个星球上最危险的事情。但实际上，在中国开车体验真的很不错。他们很不情愿地把驾照递给我，我认为这张照片是这次旅行的最佳写照。那些家伙可能在想，我们真的要给这个人发驾照吗？然后他们还是把驾照给了我，有效期三个月。小心了，中国。在我们为期十天的旅行中，我开车行驶了数千英里，可能有2000到2500英里，四处探索。我热爱驾驶，只要有机会我们就去开车。同时，我们还体验了一些当地的公共交通，像是高铁，那真的是很棒。
Then we went over to the mall because that's what you do in China. Apparently there's just malls everywhere. We found more charging hubs. This was a BMW and Mercedes collaboration on a really nice high-end charging plaza. And I can't remember. Yeah, this one is 600 amp cables, 800 amp boost. So this was a really juicy station that we were at there. And that's what you're starting to see this new wave of ultra high power charging coming in to China. And I believe that's a star charge charger. So shout out star charge for sponsoring this channel for a long time. These are the Xiaomi Su seven test drive cars.
然后我们去商场，因为在中国好像到处都是商场。我们发现了更多的充电站。这是一个由宝马和奔驰合作建设的非常高端的充电广场。我记得这个地方的电缆是600安培，带有800安培的增强功能。所以我们去的这个站是一个非常强劲的充电站。你可以看到中国开始出现这股超高功率充电的新潮流。我相信这是一个Star Charge的充电器。所以特别感谢Star Charge长时间以来对我们频道的赞助。这些是小米Su七款测试车。
We've already made a video with the Xiaomi Su seven in Los Angeles. I have a full review already on this channel. So we didn't end up driving this car in China, because I'd already experienced it here in the US. Still remains my favorite Chinese car. Like if I had to choose one, it would be this. I think it actually drives really well. Great software, pretty good design, great materials, just a wonderful, wonderful car. Then we saw a neo power hub again, Neos don't have AC charging. So they've built out this low power DC charging network all through China. That's like 2040 70 kilowatt chargers to match the dwell time of what you're doing.
我们已经在洛杉矶用小米Su 7拍过了一个视频。在我们频道上已经有了完整的评测。所以我们没有在中国试驾这款车，因为我已经在美国体验过了。它仍然是我最喜欢的中国汽车。如果要我选一辆，那就是它了。我觉得它的驾驶体验非常好，软件也很出色，设计相当不错，材料也很讲究，总之是一辆非常棒的车。之后我们又看到了一个蔚来动力中心，因为蔚来的车没有交流充电功能，所以他们在中国建立了一个低功率直流充电网络，类似于20、40、70千瓦的充电器，以匹配你的驻留时间和需求。
In this case, these were 20 kilowatt chargers, I believe, which is perfect for a few hour trip to the mall to top you up. And there's also battery swap stations everywhere. I think you guys in general, whenever I mentioned battery swap to you, you go, wow, that seems dumb. It seems wasteful. It seems expensive. And look, on the surface of it, I agree. It doesn't seem like a smart idea until you experience it and you go, whoa, that works. And I did 2015 different battery swap operations. I don't know, throughout our trip, every single one of them flawless, every single one of them super easy, super nice.
在这种情况下，我相信这些是20千瓦充电器，非常适合去商场的短途旅行时给汽车补充电量。而且到处都有电池更换站。我觉得一般来说，每当我向你们提到电池更换时，你们都会觉得这主意很傻、很浪费、很昂贵。表面上看，我同意，这看起来并不是一个聪明的想法，直到你亲自体验过后，你才会感叹，这真是有效。在行程中，我进行了2015次不同的电池更换操作，每一次都很完美，每一次都非常简单、非常不错。
There was only one issue I should say that we ran into, but that was because we had an experimental sort of their 150 kilowatt hour pack in the car. And we were trying to downgrade. And it was just because we didn't have the app to the car. But that'll be in an out of spec motoring road trip video. We then went in the mall, we checked out the new ET nine. I have a full tour coming on this vehicle, absolutely insane. My Bach competitor, steer by wire, everything vertically integrated, designed by Neo, really great hardware chip sets, really great software, amazing sort of Porsche active ride esque suspension, which was really impressive.
我们遇到的唯一问题是与车上的一个实验性150千瓦时电池组有关。我们尝试降低配置，但因为没有与车匹配的应用程序导致一些麻烦。不过，这将在一个专门的汽车旅行视频中详细介绍。然后，我们去了商场，查看了新的ET9车型。即将推出这款车的完整导览，真的是令人震撼。这款车由Neo设计，可与迈巴赫媲美，采用线控转向，所有部件都是纵向集成的，硬件芯片非常优秀，软件也很出色，还有令人惊讶的保时捷式主动悬挂，非常令人印象深刻。
They say 10 times more responsive than Porsche's system just shows that okay, NIOs really getting into the next generation of high quality engineering, which I think is the right time for the company. And at the same time, they're launching their cheaper sub brands, firefly, firefly, which we didn't do anything with this trip, but also Envo, which has a direct Tesla Model Y competitor. I went to this factory will have a tour coming as well. Also drove the car and made a video and that will come really impressive. This is like seven to $10,000 less than a model Y has almost all the same features as the model Y refresh power rear seat ambient lighting.
他们说，NIO的系统响应速度是保时捷的十倍，这表明NIO正在进入新一代高质量工程设计的阶段，我认为这对公司来说是个好时机。同时，他们正在推出更便宜的子品牌，其中之一是Firefly，这次旅行中我们没有涉及，但还有Envo，这是Tesla Model Y的直接竞争对手。我参观了这家工厂，将会有一个参观之旅。此外，我还试驾了这辆车并制作了视频，结果令人印象深刻。这款车的价格比Model Y便宜约七千到一万美元，却几乎具备Model Y的所有功能，包括后排座椅电动调节和车内氛围灯。
This actually has massaging heated and cooled seats drove really nice plenty of power. That's an impressive one. I think you guys really should check out that video because in the US, there's really no good competitor to the model Y. You can really take any of the assortment of electric SUVs that are on the market here and go, yeah, the only reason you would buy that is because you either want the charging of each MP in one category or maybe a certain trim of another vehicle or you hate Elon or something. I don't know.
这辆车实际上配备了按摩加热和通风座椅，驾驶体验非常出色，动力充沛。这真是一款令人印象深刻的车型。我认为你们真的应该去看一下那个视频，因为在美国，确实没有一款能与Model Y媲美的竞争车型。你可以看看市场上各种电动SUV，它们唯一值得购买的理由可能只是某一项特性，比如某个充电选项，或者特定车型的配置，或者你不喜欢Elon之类的。我也不知道。
But if you just look at vehicles, which is what I do, like the model Y ticks all the boxes, especially the new refresh one, except in China, there's competition, not here, not here in the US. So it's really Tesla actually has some work to do over in China, which is interesting. We swung by a random Tesla showroom just to see what was what was going on. I tried to find a new model Y. This was before we knew we could actually film the new Y. We always had an inkling. And I should say that video is actually already live on this channel.
如果你只关注汽车，就像我一样，那么特斯拉的Model Y可以说满足了所有的要求，尤其是新的改款车型。但在中国，它面临着竞争，而在美国则没有。所以，特斯拉在中国市场上确实还有一些工作要做，这点很有意思。我们随意走进了一个特斯拉展厅，看看情况。我尝试寻找新的Model Y车型。这是在我们知道可以拍摄新版Y之前的事。我们总是隐约觉得可以拍到。我应该提一下，那段视频已经在这个频道上线了。
My full tour of the new Tesla model Y. That was the last video we shot there. And to be totally transparent, so many people in the video were like, Oh, that's why you went to China. I'm like, I knew roughly the model Y was launching around this time. And maybe we'd get an opportunity to check it out. But that was just pure luck. There was nothing beyond pure luck, because the trip was already booked before any of the model Y stuff happened. And you know, that that was set. We couldn't change that. So it just we just got super lucky on that model Y video and also reaching out to Tesla communications and then allowing us to come and film that car really worked out great.
我对全新特斯拉Model Y的完整体验。这是我们在那里拍摄的最后一个视频。坦白说，视频里有很多人都在猜测："哦，这就是你去中国的原因吧。" 我是这样想的：我知道Model Y大概会在这段时间发布，也许我们会有机会去看看。但是，这纯属运气，因为这趟旅行在Model Y的事情发生之前就已经定下来了，我们改不了。所以我们在Model Y这个视频上真的是运气太好了。通过联系特斯拉的公关部门，他们同意让我们去拍那辆车，这真的很不错。
Yeah, we did a bunch of car spotting that day the first day in China. And I'll bleep breeze through the rest. But the first day was really an eye opening experience. We got to see what people drive and what they drive is new high tech, low cost electric vehicles with fantastic software, great charging, amazing driver assistance. And that is the baseline expectation. And in the US, there's really only one or two cars that kind of fit one or two brands that fit into that category. It really is Tesla because they have that driver assistance component. But then also Lucid and Rivian doing an amazing job with their software, but seriously lagging on the autonomous or driving assistant capabilities. Meanwhile, in China, you see cars like avatars with their Huawei driver assistance system pretty commonly. And it was just impressive.
是的，我们在中国的第一天进行了很多汽车观摩。我会简略地说一下剩下的部分，不过第一天真的让人大开眼界。我们看到人们开的车都是新型的高科技、低成本的电动车，这些车有很棒的软件、出色的充电系统和令人惊叹的驾驶辅助功能，这已经成为基本的期望。而在美国，只有一两个品牌的车型符合这种标准，主要是特斯拉，因为它们具备驾驶辅助功能。但Lucid和Rivian在他们的软件方面表现出色，不过在自动驾驶或驾驶辅助能力上却落后得比较明显。与此同时，在中国，我们经常可以看到像Avatr配备华为驾驶辅助系统的车辆，实在令人印象深刻。
I also want to preface this that our first day was in Shanghai, which is a expensive city to live in where people can afford new cars. And when we went out to the countryside, we did still see a higher mix than the US of EVs. But it definitely got more combustion car heavy out into the outskirts, into the, you know, rural areas of China, but still way more EVs than you would expect to see kind of anywhere. And just like a lot of fleet vehicles are electric and EVs are just commonplace now, which I thought was really interesting. I mentioned the EM 90. This is the ZEAKER 009.
我想先说一下，我们的第一天是在上海度过的。上海是一座生活成本很高的城市，当地人通常买得起新车。当我们到了乡村时，我们看到的电动车比例仍然比美国高。不过在城市边缘和农村地区，燃油车的比例明显更高。但即便如此，电动车的数量还是比你预期的多很多。比如，很多商业车队都使用电动车，电动车现在已经非常普遍了，我觉得这很有趣。我提到了EM 90，这就是ZEAKER 009。
So those are sister vehicles shared on that ZEAKER SEA platform. And it's the SEA extended. I forget exactly the name, but it's in some of the videos. Great, great charging performance. Great stuff. Wish we got the EM 90 here. I think it would do pretty well. Unfortunately, a lot of these Chinese cars, if they came here would be subject to tariffs, but I'm not sure if they built them here, if they would be like, I know there's now extra capacity at some Volkswagen group plants. I just saw a headline that Chinese automakers might start building in China or in Europe. And also maybe even in Mexico or the US.
这些都是基于极氪SEA平台的姊妹车型，而且是扩展版。我忘了具体名字，但在一些视频中有提到。充电性能非常出色，真的很棒。真希望我们这边也能买到EM 90，我觉得会卖得不错。不幸的是，很多这些中国汽车如果来到这里，会面临关税问题。但我不确定如果他们在这里生产会怎样。我看到一个新闻标题，说中国汽车制造商可能会在中国或欧洲建厂生产，甚至可能会在墨西哥或美国。
So I don't think, you know, everyone's like, Oh, we'll never see these cars. I actually think we will just kind of the best selling ones. Eventually, I don't think there's a way you can stop them from coming to the US. They're, they're really just that good. We played around with the mega some more again. I'll do a full dedicated episode on that. Then we went to go charge it. We went and found the these are the Lee charging stations. Most of the Lee charging stations that we found had there two or four sea chargers. Those are like, um, like 250 kilowatt chargers or maybe 400 kilowatt chargers. And then they have a couple 500 plus kilowatt chargers. Those are the five C's.
所以我不认为，大家都觉得"哦，我们永远看不到这些车"。其实我认为我们最终会看到，只是最畅销的那些。我觉得没有办法阻止它们进入美国，它们真的很优秀。我们又玩了一下Mega，我会专门做一期节目来详细介绍。然后我们去给它充电，找到了一个李（Lee）的充电站。大多数我们找到的李充电站都有两到四个C级充电桩，那些大概是250千瓦或可能是400千瓦的充电桩。此外，他们还有几个超过500千瓦的充电桩，那些是五级充电桩。
And the only way to really know is when you look down at this little badge on the charger right there and that shows five C, we didn't have time. This was like middle of the night. I was super tired. It actually wasn't. It was only eight p.m. But I was all messed up on time zones and I was just like dying. And I was like, I really want to shoot this thing, but it has to go back. We have other stuff to do. So we didn't get a video in, but I can at least make a podcast for you. And we were doing 340 kilowatts at 70%. So you can only imagine how good it is earlier in the charging experience. So that was a really fun charging session. The highest power I had ever charged a vehicle. We did see over 400 kilowatts in that session. I have that somewhere on my phone and it was just awesome. Yep. This is my first time activating a state grid charger. This is what those apps look like. So this is actually in we chat, I believe it's a sub app. And yeah, you guys should just, you know, definitely play around with some of that stuff. It works pretty well.
为了知道电源适配器是否是五C版本，你需要查看充电器上的小徽章。我们当时没时间深究，因为那时已是深夜，我实在太累了。其实并不是真的很晚，只是晚上八点，因为时差的关系，我感到非常疲惫。本来我很想拍摄这个东西，但是它必须被送回，我们还有其他事情要做。虽然没有机会录制视频，但至少可以为你们制作一个播客。在充电到70%时，我们达到了340千瓦的功率。可以想象，在充电早期功率会更高。这次充电体验非常有趣，这是我给车辆充电时达到的最高功率。我们在那次充电中看到了超过400千瓦。我在手机里记录了这些，真是太棒了。这是我第一次激活国家电网的充电器，这就是相关应用的界面，看起来是在微信中的一个子应用。我建议大家真的可以去试试这些东西，效果非常不错。
We then the next morning went to the race track. We played around with some zikr products. But the main reason we were there was we actually took this vehicle from the race track. We went to NIMBO, which is a city south of Shanghai. We went for a Lincoln Co track day. This was ideally supposed to be a zikr 001 FR. But I guess for some reason we couldn't arrange those cars. I'm not sure. So I shot a video for my personal channel of Drew and I going sort of head to head lap by lap, which was just a great time on track always in these Lincoln Co 03 plus combustion cars. I won't focus on them too much in this video. It was just more or less an experience to go on a Chinese fantastic track. And we just happened to use those cars. I would have loved to bring EVs though. Then we took a drive after the track day, which again, that video will be on the Kyle Connor channel over to the Glee group development center.
第二天早上，我们去了赛道。我们玩了一些Zikr的产品，但我们去那里主要是为了从赛道上把这辆车开出来。我们去了宁波，一个位于上海以南的城市，我们去参加了一场领克的赛道日活动。理想情况下，我们本来应该使用Zikr 001 FR车型，但出于某种原因我们没能安排上。我不太清楚具体原因。于是我为我的个人频道拍摄了一段视频，记录了我和Drew在赛道上一圈一圈地较量，总是开着这些领克03 plus燃油车在赛道上度过愉快的时光。我不会在这个视频中过多关注这些车，主要是体验了一把中国的精彩赛道，而我们恰好使用了这些车。不过我真希望能带电动车去。赛道日结束后，我们又驾驶了一段，视频也会上传到Kyle Connor频道，去到了吉利集团的开发中心。
Now I've been lucky enough to visit a lot of development centers around the world. And this was the most hustle, the most bustle, the most excitement, the most amount of prototypes testing I've ever seen from any development center in the world. And it just shows this rapid innovation that the Chinese brands are bringing. And you felt it when you were there. They essentially have their own city for Glee group development. And it's called Hangzhou Bay, which is different than Hangzhou city. And like everything here was just new cars, test mules, charging testing, all this crazy stuff. And I'm like, wow, I'm in heaven. This is so cool. And they really are, yes, building cars quickly. So the development cycles are compressed. But I think especially Glee group compared to the others, they know what it takes to build a good driving car. And that's because they have some incredible partnerships from Mercedes with smart with Lotus, of course, one of the best driving brands in history.
我有幸参观了世界各地的许多研发中心，而这里是我见过最忙碌、最热闹、最令人兴奋的地方，有着最多的原型测试。这无疑说明了中国品牌带来的快速创新。当你在那里时，你能感受到这一点。他们基本上为吉利集团的研发建立了一座自己的城市，名为杭州湾，这与杭州市不同。在这里，看到的一切都是全新的汽车、测试车辆、充电测试等各种令人惊叹的事物。我心想，哇，我简直来到了天堂。这太酷了。他们确实在快速生产汽车，研发周期被压缩。但我觉得特别是吉利集团，与其他公司相比，他们知道如何制造一辆驾驶性能优良的汽车。这是因为他们与一些了不起的公司建立了合作伙伴关系，比如梅赛德斯、Smart 以及Lotus这家历史上最强的驾驶品牌之一。
I'm not here to say the Lotus EVs represent the ethos of the company. But they they have talent inside their group. There's some Aston Martin love. There's some other stuff going on in there as well, where they have traditional automaker or access to traditional automaker, chassis tuners, drive train calibration guys, and total vehicle system operations guys. And they can inject that sort of legacy crazy focus on driving dynamics into their insane development cycles for their new cars. And they're really doing a good job. And Glee is really like the Volkswagen of China. There's a bunch of sub brands, a bunch of different stuff. For example, here we have a zikr 007 inch frame. We have a zikr. What the heck is this thing called again? Why am I blanking on this? Got to find it. Zikr mix, of course, which was my favorite car from the trip. This and the Lee were my two favorites, I would say. And it was just, you know, they're taking this platform approach where they'll make a platform, build a bunch of different cars off a bunch of different brands for it, and then distribute them globally very similar to Volkswagen's approach. And honestly, I think Glee's doing it better than Volkswagen group in many respects, not all but in many respects. We have a full video coming on the Lincoln Co. O two, which will be sold in Europe, maybe one day in in North America as well, not sure.
我不是在说莲花电动车完全代表公司的精神，但他们的团队确实有才华。里面有一些像阿斯顿·马丁的情怀，还有一些其他元素，他们有传统汽车制造商、底盘调校人员、动力系统校准专家和整车系统运营专家的加入。他们能够将这种对驾驶动态的传统狂热注入到新车的疯狂开发周期中，而且他们真的做得很好。吉利确实像是中国的大众。他们有很多子品牌，有很多不同的车型。例如，这里我们有一个极氪007框架，还有一个极氪，叫什么来着？为什么我想不起来了呢？哦，当然是极氪MIX，这是我这次行程中最喜欢的车之一。这和理想是我最喜欢的两款车。我认为吉利正在采用这种平台策略，他们会创建一个平台，为其不同品牌制造多种不同的车型，然后在全球范围内分销，非常类似于大众的做法。老实说，吉利在许多方面做得比大众集团好，虽然不是全部方面，但确实有很多。我们有一段关于领克02的完整视频，这款车将在欧洲销售，可能有一天也会在北美销售，但还不确定。
And we went to, you know, a great American restaurant, which was really funny. This was a pretty popular car that we saw around China, the Toyota BZ three, it's like the sedan version of the BZ forex, except it has a BYD blade battery and a BYD motor. So maybe better, but everyone says it's still shit. So maybe not so good. Yeah, this is an example of one of those parking garages that is a blast proof. So all of these openings have giant blast doors around them, the cabinets have like gas masks and stuff. And it was a really, it's almost like awkward being down in there. It's like almost a bit scary. But maybe it's just because I'm not used to like being in a bomb shelter most of the time. But that's where you park. So your car is going to be safe, which is amazing. So that's a zaker X. This is just a tour of our our parking garage at a different hotel that we stayed in to show you what people are driving, although incredibly popular around there, because again, it's Glee city.
我们去了一家非常棒的美式餐厅，那里的氛围真有趣。我们在中国看到了一款很受欢迎的车，丰田BZ3，这款车就像BZ4X的轿车版，但它配备了比亚迪的刀片电池和电动机。所以可能会更好，但大家都说它还是很糟糕，所以可能并不是那么好。这是一个防爆停车库的例子，所有这些出口都有巨大的防爆门，里面的柜子里还有防毒面具之类的东西。身处其中感觉有点尴尬，甚至有点恐怖，但可能是因为我不习惯待在防空洞里。不过，在这里停车你的车就很安全，这真是不错。那是一辆Zaker X。这是我们在另一家酒店停车场的参观，展示人们开着什么车，因为这个地方真的很受欢迎，毕竟这是个极氪之城。
I reviewed the zaker mix a full video coming on that. We then went to the zaker factory. This was one of the many, but this is the zaker SEA large factory. So this is 009, Polestar four, 001, a bunch of other vehicles are produced there. And it was a really cool experience to get to go and, you know, see a Polestar four getting born as example, as an example. So it was great to go in that factory. We learned a ton. And yes, we shot a full tour video of that. The most impressive video of the trip comes now, which is the charging test of the zaker seven X. Actually, right before we left on this, I tested the new smart car smart hashtag five, which is an impressive car. We'll have a video coming, of course. But we did a charging test of the zaker seven X from zero to 100%. And all I can tell you is insanity. This will break the internet when we post it for automakers all around the world. You can see here, we're at 80% state of charge still doing 245 kilowatts, 250 kilowatts at 80% on a 75 kilowatt hour battery pack. You can only imagine how fast this little tiny battery charged on the way up.
我对zaker组合进行了初步评测，完整的视频稍后会放出。我们接着去了zaker工厂。这是众多工厂中的一个，但这是zaker海大型工厂。在那里生产的车型包括009、Polestar四、001以及其他许多车辆。参观这个工厂真是一次很棒的体验，尤其是看到一辆Polestar四的诞生，非常震撼。在工厂，我们学到了很多东西，并且拍摄了完整的工厂参观视频。
此行最令人印象深刻的视频是zaker七X的充电测试。就在出发前，我测试了新的智能汽车smart hashtag五，这是一款令人印象深刻的车，我们当然会出一个相关视频。但这次，我们对zaker七X进行了从0%到100%的充电测试，这次测试结果只能用疯狂来形容。当我们把视频发布出来时，将震撼全球的汽车制造商。在这里，你可以看到电量达到80%时，它仍然以245千瓦至250千瓦的速度充电，而电池容量只有75千瓦时。可以想象，这颗小电池在充满电的过程中速度有多快。
And I, of course, recorded it. And this is going to be a prioritized video coming very soon, because I think this has surpassed even Lee mega charging performance in terms of a se rate, because it's a relatively small battery. But again, we saw almost 500 kilowatt charging on a 75 kilowatt hour pack, 10 to 80. And I believe I have to double check on the data. But I believe it was under 10 minutes or right at 10 minutes. So we'll definitely see that. I then went on a road trip to have a listen. And I took the ES six battery swapping and road tripping to NIOs factory. So we went basically right from zaker factory to neo factory, which was a beautiful drive. We shot a video road trip video of that. I think on the way back, we shot a road trip video.
当然，我也录制了这段视频。这个视频会被优先发布，因为我认为这是一个超越了李公司的超级充电表现的案例，尤其是在电池容量较小的情况下。我们见证了在75千瓦时的电池组上实现了接近500千瓦的充电速度，从10%冲到80%。我需要再次确认数据，但我相信这只用了不到10分钟或刚好10分钟。所以，我们肯定会看到这个表现。之后，我进行了一个自驾旅行，体验了一下。我使用了ES6的电池更换服务，并驾车前往蔚来工厂。所以我们基本上是从扎克工厂直接开到了蔚来工厂，那是一段非常美丽的旅程。我们拍摄了一段自驾旅行的视频。我想在回程的路上，我们也拍摄了一段自驾旅行的视频。
F one 50 Raptors are sold in China, by the way, you do we saw like five or six, the trip. So they weren't incredibly uncommon. They're not totally common, but wasn't entirely rare. This was at the NIO factory. We saw on Vaux, of course, we just spoke about that vehicle. It was incredible to see this was our road trip home, sharing some sites along the way. There are lasers on the highway on China to stimulate your brain at night. So you don't fall asleep, I guess. I'm not entirely convinced it works. Because I was still tired at times. And I was like, Oh, yeah, okay, lights aren't helping much. But I guess it does get your mind thinking.
F-150 Raptors 在中国有售。顺便说一句，我们这次旅行中看到了五六辆，所以它们并不是非常少见。当然也不是非常常见，但也不能算完全罕见。这是在蔚来工厂附近看到的。当然，我们之前刚谈到过这款车。看到它真让我们感到惊讶。这是我们回家路上的见闻，顺便分享一些沿途景点。中国的高速公路上有激光装置，据说是为了在夜间刺激你的大脑，防止你犯困。我不是特别确定这种方法是否有效，因为我有时还是觉得很累，然后心想，哦，好吧，灯光似乎没有很大帮助。但我想它确实会让你动脑思考。
And it's just an interesting thing to drive down the, the highway, you just have these, you know, you're like a disco party and the lights are flashing. And each one's a little bit different. Some have different colors, some have different flash patterns. And it was really, really interesting. We did a lot of talking about what it's like to drive in China, what it's like to road trip through China. And so we, we experienced and showed a lot of that. This was one of the most impressive videos that we shot. And I can't wait to share this one with you. This is what's called the avatar brand.
在高速公路上开车是一件有趣的事情，就像是在参加迪斯科派对，灯光闪烁。每一个灯光都有些不一样，有的颜色不同，有的闪烁模式不同，真的非常有趣。我们谈了很多在中国驾驶是什么样的，公路旅行又是什么样的经历。所以我们体验并展示了很多这方面的内容。这是我们拍摄的一段最令人印象深刻的视频，我迫不及待地想分享给你们。这叫做Avatar品牌。
I believe this one's the one one avatar 11. They also have a 12 and some other ones as well. It's a relatively new automaker, but they're using Huawei's top level driver assistance system with three lidars. It's insane. I mean, the, the, the, the one thing is the perception of the sensors is, you know, up for debate, even in the Chinese market, do you do LiDAR? Do you do camera? How do you fuse all the different types of information with multiple sensor types together?
我相信这辆车就是Avatar 11。他们还有Avatar 12和其他一些车型。这是一家相对较新的汽车制造商，但他们采用了华为的顶级驾驶辅助系统，配备了三个激光雷达。这真是令人惊叹。我是说，有一件事情是传感器的感知能力仍然在讨论之中，即使是在中国市场。你是使用激光雷达，还是使用摄像头？你如何将多种传感器类型的信息融合在一起？
We talk a lot about that in that video. Regardless of the sensor type, what was impressive to me about this system was actually the tuning. It was the way that the car behaved, the way that it blended in with traffic and was fluid, because a lot of Chinese driving isn't so structured. It's like the opposite of Germany. And it is getting better from what I'm told. And it really wasn't scary at all to drive in China. It wasn't hard driving in China. You have to be a little bit aggressive. It's like, it's honestly like driving in New York City at times, but that's not uncommon. I grew up there.
我们在那个视频中对这个话题谈论了很多。不管传感器的类型如何，这个系统让我印象深刻的是其调校方式。汽车的表现方式、与交通的融合以及流畅度让我感到惊讶，因为很多在中国的驾驶并不是那么有结构化。这有点像德国的反面。不过据我了解，中国的交通状况正在改善。在中国开车实际上一点也不恐怖，也并不困难。你需要稍微有点激进，就像在纽约市开车一样，但这并不罕见，因为我是在那儿长大的。
So I'm used to, you know, squeezing our car through a little tight space and not letting people in and all that stuff. And it actually kind of works. Driving in China is a very much like a me, me, me. I'm out to get me to the location, the fastest people aren't really expecting for you to let them in. And so when you do like slow down and like try and be nice to someone, it actually almost disturbs the traffic flow. Because people are like, what are you doing? That's so weird. Just go. And you know, while squeezing when I can. And it actually really works to just stay on it and stay aggressive all the time.
所以，我已经习惯了，比如说，把车挤过一个狭小的空间，不让其他车插队之类的。这种方式在中国真的挺管用的。中国的驾驶风格很自我导向，大家都想最快到达目的地，人们也不太指望你会让他们插队。因此，当你稍微放慢速度，试图对别人好一点时，反而会扰乱交通流，因为大家会想，你在干什么？这太奇怪了，赶紧走。所以，我在可以的时候就找空隙钻进去，保持主动和积极的态度真的很有效。
I really do enjoy driving there. I thought it was really fun. But it's really hard for a driver assistance system to drive like that, except for this one. This Huawei driver assistance a lot will argue. I firmly believe I've experienced most now is the top ADAS in China. And FSD, Tesla, FSD is not available in China yet. Can't wait to do a head to head when it is. But this was the most natural, the most competent, the most aggressive, and just so well tuned video. And I think we have like an hour and a half, like raw footage drive through urban areas with that.
我真的很喜欢在那里开车，觉得特别有趣。但对于驾驶辅助系统来说，以那种方式驾驶是很困难的，除了这个。这个华为的驾驶辅助系统让很多人刮目相看。我坚定地相信，我体验过的大多数如今在中国数一数二的ADAS（高级驾驶辅助系统）。而FSD（全自动驾驶），就是特斯拉的FSD，目前在中国还没有上线。等不及要在它上线后进行对比测试。我觉得这是最自然、最有能力、最有攻击性、调校得最好的视频。我们还有大约一个半小时的原始驾驶录像，展示在城市区域的驾驶体验。
I think you'll you'll enjoy it. We did spend a lot of time testing X paying vehicles, shop paying vehicles, however you say it. And we drove both the P7 plus seen in the back and the X9 later in our trip. So I'll share that. This is the Mona. I did want to make a video with the Mona. This is one of the least expensive EVs on sale in China. It's like under 20 grand. It was originally designed to be like a car for DD, which is like an Uber service there. DDs are everywhere. And a lot of people get around with DD. And so I think this was a project that was originally developed for ride sharing. X paying took over the entire project. And now they have their Mona vehicle, which I thought was super impressive just from checking it out in the showroom. And we'll hope to drive it at some point in the future.
我想你会喜欢它的。我们确实花了很多时间测试X家族的付费车辆，不管是店铺还是其它付费车辆。我们的旅行中体验了背景中的P7以及后来的X9车型，所以我会分享这些。这就是Mona。我确实想用Mona制作一个视频。这是中国市场上售价最低的电动车之一，价格不到两万美金。最初它的设计是为了像滴滴这样的服务，滴滴就是中国的“优步”。滴滴无处不在，很多人通过它出行。所以我认为这个项目最初是为共享出行而开发的。小鹏接手了整个项目，现在他们拥有了Mona这款车型，我在展厅简单看了一下，觉得非常印象深刻。希望将来能有机会试驾。
We also saw another Tesla showroom. One thing that's interesting for the EV nerds on this channel, I think you'll enjoy this old school Model S's that were sold in China typically don't have a green plate. They have the old blue plate because they didn't qualify for new energy plates or it wasn't a thing yet. This one may have been sold on the second hand market because it's a first generation Model S with a green plate. But what's interesting is they were sold with NACs in China. They had J, I guess it wasn't J3400 at the time, but they had the US spec charge port. And you can see here there needs to be an adapter to GBT, which is their charging plug in order to use superchargers and AC charging. So there's two different adapters. There's an AC adapter and a DC adapter that they have to carry around, which I thought was interesting. I had no idea that was the case.
我们还看到另一家特斯拉展厅。对于这个频道的电动车爱好者来说，有件事挺有趣，我想你们会喜欢：在中国出售的老款Model S通常没有绿色车牌，而是旧的蓝色车牌，因为当时它们不符合新能源车牌的条件，或者那个时候这种车牌还没有。这辆车可能是在二手市场上出售的，因为它是一代Model S，却有绿色车牌。但有趣的是，它们在中国出售时使用的是美国标准的充电接口，不是我们熟知的J3400接口，而是需要通过适配器连接GBT插头，这样才能使用超级充电桩和交流电充电。因此，需要携带两个不同的适配器，一个用于交流充电，一个用于直流充电。我觉得这很有趣，以前完全不知道是这样的情况。
More neo charging stuff that we looked at. One thing that's a really cool trend just to show you this here. There's a lot of cars, expaying and neo and lee. No, not neo, just expaying and Lee actually put a light on the outside of their vehicles when you're using their ADAS. It's a cyan colored light. And Mercedes is starting to do this as well with their level three official level three system. But I think it's a great thing to know like when the vehicle is using its internal systems versus not my brain instantly goes to like, Oh, well, I know I can cut you off and be totally fine. But also I feel like there's a social aspect to it where in general, I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but it's at least interesting. I could see argument points either way. And maybe it's something you can turn off in the software. But that was really a cool thing to see like other Lee drivers and expaying drivers driving with the blue light on the outside of their vehicle to know you're using their FSD like systems.
我们看了一些关于充电的新趋势。其中一个非常有趣的趋势是关于汽车外部照明的。在使用ADAS（高级驾驶辅助系统）时，像小鹏和理想这样的汽车品牌会在车辆外部显示一个青色的灯光。虽然文中提到了"蔚来"，但其实它不包含在内。此外，奔驰也开始在他们的三级自动驾驶系统中使用这种灯光显示。我认为这是一个很好的方式，可以让人们知道车辆是否正在使用内部系统。
我的第一反应是，这让我知道我可以放心地切入车道（虽然这种想法可能不太好），但我同时觉得它还有一个社交方面的影响。不确定这是好是坏，但至少挺有意思的。我可以看到正反两方面的观点，也许这是一个可以通过软件关闭的功能。不过，看到理想和小鹏的司机在车外亮着蓝灯行驶，让人明确知道他们正在使用自动驾驶系统，这确实很酷。
Then we went on an absolutely epic road trip. 1200 kilometers took, you know, 18 hour drive from Shanghai to Beijing. We took two Nios on the trip and E.T. seven, which is an incredibly comfortable sort of five series or E class competitor on a trip. We had the executive package with smoother suspension screens in the back. That car was awesome. We really fell in love with this one. And we're like, Oh, damn, because we were a little bit disappointed by the Neo ES six and all transparency. The car just didn't drive great didn't have good pedal mapping didn't have good suspension. And we're incredibly grateful to Neo for letting us use it. But and the intention was not to film a review. They were just like here use the car. And we did make a bunch of content with it, of course. But when we got into the E.T. seven, we were like, Oh, we've made it. This is nice. And that's not even the brand new E.T. nine with all the crazy stuff. So I think a really bright feature ahead for Neo.
然后我们开始了一段非常精彩的自驾游。我们花了18小时，从上海开车到北京，总共1200公里。旅途中我们用了两辆蔚来的车，其中一辆是E.T.7。这辆车就像是一个五系或E级的竞争对手，非常舒适。我们选择了行政套件，拥有更平稳的悬挂和后排的屏幕。这辆车非常棒，我们真心喜欢上了它。另一方面，我们对蔚来ES6稍有失望，车的驾驶体验不佳，油门响应和悬挂都不太好。尽管如此，我们还是非常感谢蔚来让我们使用这辆车。我们的初衷并不是要拍摄评测，他们只是让我们使用汽车。当然，我们利用它拍了一些内容。但当我们坐进E.T.7时，我们感觉终于找到了理想的车，这真不错。而这还不是全新的、带有所有酷炫功能的E.T.9。我觉得蔚来在未来有非常光明的前景。
Some of our friends from Neo actually took an E.T. five touring. We had so much luggage, we couldn't fit it. And they had a reason to bring both cars up and we're like, Oh, we'll just drive together. And it actually worked out really well because we did get into a sticky situation at a police stop on the way into Beijing. And we needed them to like help explain what the hell was going on, because we had three Americans in a Neo E.T. seven going to Beijing, driving through the night. They were like, what is happening here? They stopped us at a toll booth, pulled us out of the car. Thankfully, we had our friends from Neo. They came they explained. And we were good to go. But it was pretty tense. And that was interesting. Other than that, we really had no run ins with police or government officials or anything like that. There are cameras everywhere. You do feel watched, but it's not like the impression I had was like, they're not watching me. It's just if something goes wrong, then there's a video feed of an accident or whatever that happened. But there are speed cameras everywhere.
我们的几位来自蔚来的朋友实际上开了一辆E.T.五座车去旅行。我们带了太多行李，装不下。他们有理由把两辆车都开上路，我们就说，那我们就一起开吧。实际上这样安排得很好，因为我们在开往北京的路上，遇到了一些棘手的情况，在一个警察检查站被拦下了。我们需要他们帮忙解释到底发生了什么事，因为当时我们有三个美国人在开着蔚来的E.T.七座车，夜间赶往北京。他们就想，怎么回事？他们在收费站拦住了我们，把我们从车里叫出来。幸好我们有来自蔚来的朋友，他们过来解释了一下，我们就可以继续上路了。但当时还是挺紧张的，这段经历蛮有趣的。除此之外，我们并没有遇到什么警察或政府官员的麻烦。不过到处都有监控摄像头，让人感到被关注。不过我的感觉是，他们并不是盯着我看，而是为了如果出了事，有录像记录，比如发生事故什么的。不过测速摄像头倒是到处都是。
So this was the E.T. seven that we drove up. It was a really, really nice car to cruise up on our road trip. We'll have a full out of spec motoring video going. We went to a local restaurant, which was one of the best experiences of my life. We were in this little tiny town. They've never seen American step foot in this restaurant. And we just had a great time with the people with the food. It was so friendly. And yeah, one of those sort of that's why we road trip moments. And that's what we did this all for us. Really cool.
所以这就是我们开上路的E.T.七。真的是一辆非常非常不错的车，适合我们的公路旅行。我们将有一个完整的视频来展示这次旅行。我们去了一家当地的餐馆，那是我一生中最棒的体验之一。我们在一个非常小的镇上，他们从来没有见过美国人走进这家餐馆。我们与当地人一起享受了美食，玩得非常开心。这里的人都非常友好。这正是我们公路旅行的原因之一。这就是我们这次旅行的目的，真的很酷。
We did get stuck at a charger at 2% with no way to activate it. And thankfully through calling a bunch of local contacts in China, friends of ours, we got a QR code to our friend, Catherine, who got it started for us. But that was some tense moments as well, where we thought we would be able to activate it. But we needed a local number in order to do so. Yeah. So that was really one of the highlights of the trip, of course, was the drive to Beijing. We went through Beijing. We went to the zoo once we were there, which was really cool. And I also got to check out Neo E.T. nine. We shot a full tour. Actually, we didn't shoot a full tour in Beijing.
我们确实遇到了个麻烦，在电量剩下2%的时候被卡在充电站，无法启动它。幸好通过联系我们在中国的一些朋友，我们拿到了一个二维码。我们的朋友Catherine帮我们启动了。但是这个过程也很紧张，我们以为能启动，但发现需要本地的号码才能办到。这次旅行的亮点之一当然是开车去北京。我们去了北京，还去了一趟动物园，真的很酷。我还看了Neo E·T·9。实际上，我们没有在北京拍完整个行程的录像。
That was the original intention. There was a couple issues with the car. The suspension was broken. They ended up resetting it and getting it good to go. But we were then late for our train. And we took the high speed train back. But a life goal of mine was to check out a Hong Chi, a red flag. Now red flag, Hong Chi has a bunch of different vehicles all around, you know, from from low level to medium to high end.
那是最初的打算。不过，车子出了点问题，悬挂系统坏了。最后他们重置了悬挂并修好车，但我们因此错过了火车。我们坐高铁回去了。不过，我一直想亲眼看看红旗车。这种车子种类很多，从低档到中高档都有。
But I really wanted to check out their golden sunflower brand. So this is the L5. This is like what, you know, the Xi Jinping drives around in type things, just like the scariest vehicle on wheels. And we went to the showroom and they were so nice, they let us start them up and sit inside. And wow, that was just a cool experience. These are million dollar plus vehicles. And they are actually, I think you have to be vetted and improved by the Chinese government to buy one. That's what one of our commenters said on one of our short form videos. I don't know if it's true or not, but I thought it was funny.
但我真的很想看看他们的金色向日葵品牌。这是L5。这种车就像习近平平时乘坐的，简直是公路上的最吓人的车辆。我们去了展厅，他们非常友好，让我们启动车辆并坐在里面。哇，那真是一次很酷的体验。这些都是价值百万美元以上的车辆。据说你必须经过中国政府的审核和批准才能购买。这是我们一个短视频下的一位评论者说的，我也不知道是真是假，不过我觉得挺有趣的。
Then we took the high speed train back down and it only took four hours. So 18 hours to drive up. Yes, we did sightseeing. We did lots of video and we really Dilly Dallied. If you're really pushing, you could probably do it in 12 to 14 hours in an electric car. But then it was only four hours back on the smoothest. Now I've never really been on a, I've been on a high speed train in Europe, but never really in Europe or in in Asia. And this was just dead smooth, dead fast, pretty cheap, incredible experience. And I am just, I love it.
然后我们乘坐高铁返回，只用了四个小时。而开车上去花了18个小时。是的，我们沿途观光，拍了很多视频，真是一路闲逛。如果你真着急，用电动车可能12到14个小时就能开到。不过回来时坐高铁只用了四个小时，而且非常平稳。我以前在欧洲坐过高铁，但从没真正体验过这次的感觉。真的是超级平稳、超级快，而且价格相对便宜。真是一次不可思议的体验，我非常喜欢。
Now, for me, I'm a weirdo. I would drive every time. Like, if you give me the choice, high speed trainer car, I'm like, I want to keep my stuff with me, my friends with me. I want to go have the autonomy to be on my own schedule. I don't want to be locked into your, you have to be at the train station at this time. I just get so annoyed with public transit that way. But that's a very personal thing for like 99% of use cases. This high speed train stuff is amazing. And China's investing heavily in Maglev and some other things. So I thought it was cool at least to experience it. I'm glad we did it. Check it off the bucket list. Just sat at over 200 miles an hour down the hallway, which was really, really great.
现在，对于我来说，我是个有点怪的人。我每次都喜欢开车。如果让我选，我会选高速列车的座位，不过我更希望自己的东西和朋友都能跟我在一起。我喜欢有自由，可以按自己的时间安排，不想被限制在必须几点到火车站。我真的对公共交通感到很烦，但这只是我个人的想法。对99%的情况来说，高速列车简直太棒了。中国在磁悬浮和一些其他技术上投入很多，我觉得至少体验一下是很酷的。我很高兴我们尝试了，也算是在愿望清单上打了个勾。坐着列车以超过每小时200英里的速度飞驰，真的非常棒。
Then we got back and we really are getting to our final days in China here. We filmed a X-Peng G9, which was a sorry, X9, excuse me, which is an incredibly luxurious van. I really wanted to focus on the van stuff while we were there. So we did Lee, mega, and X, and X, paying X9. We also looked at EM 90 and Ziger double nine, but didn't make full reviews of those. They just made it into other videos. We stayed at a super weird hotel that had statues like this everywhere, which was hilarious.
然后我们回来了，现在真的到了我们在中国的最后几天。我们拍摄了一辆X-Peng G9，不好意思，其实是X9，那是一辆非常豪华的厢型车。我真的很想在那段时间专注于拍摄厢型车的内容。所以我们拍了李（Lee）、迈加（Mega）和X-Peng X9。我们也看了EM 90和智歌(Double) 99，但没有做完整的评测，它们只出现在其他视频中。我们住在一间超级奇怪的酒店，到处都是像这样的雕塑，真是让人忍俊不禁。
And, you know, after we did the X9, we swapped it for the P7 plus, which is right here. And we were going to make a video and I did make a driver assistance video with this because this is using X-Peng's camera only system, which is really pretty impressive, actually, but still needs some tuning. And then we filmed Model Y. And that was kind of it. Then we took a Uber, we returned all the cars. They, you know, we took a DD from our hotel to the airport, which was an electric van.
然后，你知道的，在我们使用X9后，我们把它换成了这款P7 plus，就是在这里的这辆车。我们本来要制作一个视频，而我也确实用这款车拍摄了一个关于驾驶辅助的影片，因为它使用的是小鹏的纯视觉系统。这个系统非常令人印象深刻，但仍然需要一些调校。接着我们拍摄了Model Y。事情就到此为止。然后我们乘坐了一辆Uber，把所有的车都还回去了。我们从酒店叫了一辆电动面包车滴滴去机场。
Again, just randomly, we didn't request an electric van, but it just turned out to be the Ro-Roe-Wai-Rau, iMacs 8 EV. It's very similar to like the MG brand, just branded as Ro in China. And it was really, you know, just kind of basic van that was electric. Pretty nice. And that kind of rounds out the China trip. Then we went to the UAE, had a bunch of fun, Mercedes EQE, Porsche, Ticon road trip around did the Model Y stuff. Took a Ticon around UAE, separate topics, separate video, and that will come on the Out of Speck motoring channel and my personal channel. So that's our China trip. It was eye opening. I mean, that's kind of what we did.
再一次，我要说明，我们没有特别要求电动厢式车，但结果就是我们得到了Roe-Wai-Rau iMax 8 EV。这辆车很像MG品牌，只不过在中国叫Roe。它就是一辆基本款的电动厢式车，还挺不错的。这大致就是我们的中国之行的总结。然后我们去了阿联酋，玩得很开心，试驾了奔驰EQE、保时捷Taycan，还围绕阿联酋进行了Model Y的体验。我们还驾驶Taycan在阿联酋旅行，这是不同的主题，单独的视频将发布在"Out of Spec Motoring"频道和我个人的频道。这就是我们的中国之旅，真是让我大开眼界。这就是我们做的事情。
But in general, you're going to see mall tours of different showrooms. You're going to see driver assistance tests. You're going to see just a whole nother world that honestly we're not used to in the North American market and to a large extent in Europe. Tesla is clearly leading the electric vehicle revolution from the entire vehicle integration. There are certain companies that are doing power train and efficiency better. There are certain companies that are doing charging better. There are certain companies that are building a lifestyle brand better like Rivian and others. And I really do think that that Rivian, Lucin and Tesla are representative of the future car vibe.
总的来说，你将在商场看到不同展厅的巡展，还会看到驾驶辅助系统的测试。你将看到一个我们在北美市场以及很大程度上在欧洲市场并不习惯的全新世界。特斯拉显然在引领整个电动车革命，尤其是在整车集成方面。有些公司在动力系统和效率方面做得更好，有些公司在充电上做得更好，还有一些公司，如Rivian等，在打造生活方式品牌方面表现优异。我真的认为Rivian、Lucid和特斯拉代表了未来汽车的潮流。
But in China, there's just so much more. And I think we have a lot to learn from their vehicle types. And you know, so many people have asked me friends of mine, they're like, Oh, how far behind are we? Or are we cooked? You know, as the American car market dead or what's going to happen? I'm like, no, I really don't think so. I don't actually think like if the companies wanted to hear we have insane engineering nearing resources in America, we could apply the China method of building vehicles, maybe extend the timeline a little bit, maybe put a little bit more emphasis on driving dynamics, pedal tuning, stuff like that. And we could really compete here if we wanted to put in great chipsets, great software.
在中国，有太多的东西值得我们学习。我认为我们在他们的车型方面有很多可以借鉴的经验。很多朋友问我，问我们到底落后多少，或者美国汽车市场是否已经完蛋了？但我并不这么认为。实际上，我认为如果美国的公司愿意，我们拥有强大的工程资源，可以采用中国的造车方法，或许需要延长一些时间线，并更多关注驾驶动态和踏板调校等细节。如果我们投入优质的芯片和软件，我们完全可以在市场上竞争。
The literally the playbook to make a great electric car is there. It's not hard. And what's been so surprising to me is that's been there for a long time. I mean, everything in China is like taking a lot of inspiration from early Model S and Model X and Model 3 and putting their own spin on it in a sense. And so it's like the formula has been there. But even the copycats or those that followed in the Western world can't even match like what a new Model 3 does. And in China, they can. And so it's just, I think, regardless of anything, it is just giving a shit.
制造一辆出色电动车的方法其实是众所周知的，并不困难。令我感到惊讶的是，这个方法已经存在很长时间了。中国的许多电动车设计都受到了早期Model S、Model X和Model 3的启发，并在此基础上加入了自己的创新。也就是说，成功的“公式”早已存在。然而，即便是西方世界的一些模仿者也无法达到新的Model 3的水平，而中国的公司却能做到。所以我认为，不管怎么样，关键在于是否真的投入心力去做。
Like if car companies cared to build a fantastic vertically integrated software stack, they would invest the money on an architecture they build for the future. And they would produce some amazing cars today, or in the very near future. And I hope we see more of that. Because if we don't, then even at 100% import tariffs, these Chinese cars make a lot of sense. And I don't think there's any stopping it. That's just my view. But maybe you guys will feel differently. I think we're going to have Chinese cars in the US, maybe not built in China, maybe built in other factories around the world, but their cars, their engineering will show up here. Probably sooner than we think. And so it's all this trip really was it was super eye-opening that like auto companies in the West have to get their shit together.
如果汽车公司愿意投入精力去构建一个出色的垂直整合软件体系，他们就会在一种面向未来的架构上投资。而这样他们今天或者在不久的将来就能生产出一些很棒的汽车。我希望能看到更多这样的情况。因为如果不能做到这一点，尽管有100%的进口关税，这些中国汽车仍然是有吸引力的。我认为这种趋势是不可阻挡的。这只是我的看法，但也许你们有不同的看法。我认为我们会在美国看到中国汽车的出现，可能不是在中国制造，而是在世界各地的其他工厂生产，但他们的汽车和工程技术会出现在这里。可能比我们想象的要快得多。这次旅行让我深刻地意识到西方的汽车公司必须努力提升自己。
They need to go as fast as possible. Every executive needs to go to China and spend a week and drive everything. It's so easy to do it. You just go to a mall, just land at the airport and Shanghai, go to the local mall, walk through it, go and can I drive this? Can I drive that? You got to get your driving permit. That was really easy, actually. And then you're good to go and you just learn so much. So I hope that's happening. I hope we see a shift. No question. China's speed is real. The products are great. Not every single product. I mean, we drove some really terrible cars too. You'll see that. But we drove some really cool cool stuff there.
他们需要尽可能快地行动。每位高管都需要去中国待一个星期，并亲自体验一切。这很容易做到。你只需到机场降落，然后去上海的本地商场，走一走，看看这个能不能试驾，那个能不能试驾。你需要办理驾照，这其实非常简单。完成后，你就可以开始体验，从中学到很多。我希望这种体验正在发生。我希望我们能看到变化。毫无疑问，中国的速度是实实在在的，产品也很出色。当然，并不是每一款产品都是如此，我们也试驾了一些不太好的车，你会看到的。不过，我们在那儿也开到了非常酷的车。
And if anything, it's just a giant wake up call to the rest of the auto industry. And I hope these videos serve as it as well. We went in with an open mind. I know some of our viewers don't have an open mind. We tested, we drove, we had zero control over our content. We didn't allow any company to control our content. If they mentioned anything like, oh, well, you have to have us review the video first. We're like, nope, not possible. And honestly, they all agreed. They were all pretty cool. They're like, yeah, do your thing and then just post, you know, post when you're done.
如果有什么收获的话，那就是这对汽车行业其他公司来说是一个巨大的警钟。我也希望这些视频能起到这样的作用。我们带着开放的心态进行了测试。我知道我们的一些观众并没有这种开放的态度。我们进行了测试、驾驶，对我们的视频内容完全保持独立。我们不允许任何公司控制我们的内容。如果他们提到需要先审核视频，我们就会拒绝，说这不可能。说实话，他们都同意了，他们都很酷。他们说，只管做你们的事情，做完了就发布吧。
And that's what we did. And I hope you guys enjoy the videos. I hope you get a sense of the authenticity of our content, what we were trying to do here. And I think you'll enjoy it. So bunch of videos coming. Maybe not every day, but depending on the video performance, I might leave an extra day for it to do really well, or we'll just stack them up. But time to get to the editing booth. And we'll see.
这就是我们的做法。我希望大家喜欢这些视频，希望你们能够感受到我们内容的真实，我们在这里的努力。我相信你们会喜欢的。我们会上传很多视频，可能不会每天都有，根据视频表现，我可能会多留一天让它表现更好，或者我们会把它们叠加上传。现在是时候开始剪辑了，我们拭目以待。