Car influencers love Chinese EVs — and China loves them back

The archetypal Chinese-made car Omar Rana ever drove was a gas-powered SUV that helium rented portion connected a travel overseas successful 2015. To accidental it didn't permission overmuch of an content would beryllium an understatement.

"It sucked truly bad," Rana, aka OmarDrives, tells me. "A horrible experience."

Flash guardant astir a decennary to past year, erstwhile Rana received a DM from a institution he'd ne'er heard of called DCar Studio inviting him to cheque retired a fewer Chinese EVs successful Los Angeles. It wasn't astonishing that DCar would scope retired to Rana. With his 90,000 subscribers connected YouTube and implicit 280,000 followers connected Instagram, he's built a tiny but respectable pursuing implicit the y …

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