Chinese EV Brake Pedal Snaps Three Times During Testing
(www.thedrive.com)
Electric VehiclesThe testers even bought a brand-new model just to make sure this was no coincidence—and it wasn't.
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A brake pedal snapping during an emergency stop is just about one of the worst calamities that can happen on the road, and it appears a luxury EV in China carries that risk right now. Three Maextro V800 vans—built by JAC Group and tech giant Huawei—separately suffered three pedal fractures during 60-to-0-mph braking tests, prompting the manufacturer to begrudgingly commit to fix the component’s design and provide owners free replacements.
These tests made the rounds on Dongchedi, a car content platform that happens to be owned by ByteDance, which also runs TikTok. The first two failures happened to low-mileage vehicles, and their pedals snapped on their third and fourth runs. The third failure struck a brand new van purchased later, and its pedal collapsed on the second attempt.
Each failure required the testers to immediately engage the Park gear as a makeshift emergency brake, which does eventually stop the vehicle—though, as you can see in the footage, not quickly. The video below is in Chinese, but it’s not hard to get the gist of what’s going on. The driver presses hard, something audibly breaks, and the pedal falls all the way to the back of the footwell, dangling.
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Interesting that in the headline it's a "Chinese EV" rather than any specific model. Imagine seeing the same headline but with "American truck."
American EV gas pedal falls off.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tesla-cybertruck-recall-accelerator-pedal-1.7178569
I think part of it is its chinese testing for a chinese vehicle from a chinese sorce. At some point they are going to have to mention it.
Presumably the primary demographic of thedrive.com is in the US and wouldn't have a lot of knowledge about specific chinese car models and brands, seeing as how we don't have access to any of them.
Maybe. But if there were a headline with "American truck", then I don't think someone commented by asking to imagine a headline "Chinese EV". The whataboutism only works in one direction.
It seems pretty obvious that they would never even consider using "American truck" like that. It would be "Ford F150" or whatever.
Fearmongering to try and drive down demand for Chinese EVs...
If you are worried about this, get your local politicians to regulate vehicle safety, not ban one import source, or you'll just end up with plastic brake pedals from the western enshittification masters all the same, and you'll be paying more for the privilege.
In a video made by a Chinese team in Chinese?
The video says a specific make and model. Not, "China EV".
Unless thedrive.com is a chinese outlet, too, I have no idea what kind of point you're trying to make.
Taiwan also has Chinese people who speak Chinese.
seems that way to me. apparently people in china are fearmongering to drive down demand for chinese imports or get them band.
Engaging the park gear at speed on an ICE wouldn’t do much, because the pawl would snap. Do they mean parking brake?
The automaker’s position is that these defects were discovered during “non-standard, extreme test conditions,”
yes that’s what emergency braking is. Non-standard use. It might happen twice in a vehicles lifetime or 200 times a day depending on whether the driver is a bus driver, but in any case it must not break.
