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Published on Oct 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Oct 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
Footage of what appears to be a Chinese EV graveyard went viral, but there’s more to it than meets the eye.
When the clip went viral, a lot of people assumed it was because no one was buying these cars.
But that’s not the case.
EVs are obviously quite popular in China, and these cars are there for an entirely different reason.
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YouTube account Inside China Auto went to a place called Banshen to find out more about this massive graveyard full of abandoned Chinese EVs, most of which looked new.
The first thing we learned from the video is that many of the vehicles are actually not electric.
The second thing the narrator in the video pointed out is that some of these cars are not as new as they look.
Third, and more to the point, these cars aren’t abandoned because people don’t want them.
They’re here because the companies that had bought them went bust.
Many of these EVs were previously owned by ride-hailing companies that looked to copy the likes of Uber, but unfortunately went bust, and their vehicles fell into disuse.
China’s trajectory has been impressive.
In 1977, there were one million cars in China.
In 2008, there were 51 million vehicles, and now, in 2025, there are over 350 million.
At some point in the last 10-15 years, China realized it didn’t make sense to play catch-up with European, American, and Japanese automakers when it came to gas cars.
Instead, they decided to ignore internal combustion altogether and just focus on EVs.
This strategy paid off because Chinese automakers are now ahead in the EV game.
Chinese brands dominate the EV market in several countries, and surveys show that even Americans are now open to buying Chinese cars.
Americans, like everyone else, are now watching videos of Chinese EVs with five-minute EV chargers and super smart Chinese sedans online, and wondering if they’re missing out on something big.
Clearly, some of them are beginning to think that the answer to the question is ‘yes’.
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