tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk dances during a delivery ceremony for Model 3 cars in Shanghai January 7, 2020.
U.S. Tesla resolutely invested heavily in Shanghai a few years ago when U.S.-China trade relations began to deteriorate. Today, the Chinese government has made subtle changes to Tesla, which has recently been interviewed by several departments in China to comply with Chinese regulations, and Tesla has said it “sincerely accepts guidance from government departments”, while Chinese citizens are beginning to question whether Tesla’s products could jeopardize China’s national security.
Tesla, the U.S. electric car maker with operations in Beijing and Shanghai, was recently interviewed by China’s General Administration of Market Regulation, the Internet Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Transport and the Fire and Rescue Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management about consumer reports of abnormal acceleration, battery fires, and remote vehicle upgrades (OTAs). The authorities asked Tesla to strictly comply with Chinese laws and regulations, strengthen internal management, implement the main responsibility for corporate quality and safety, effectively safeguard social public safety and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
In this regard, Chinese financial scholar commander said in an interview with Radio Free Asia on Thursday (10), as a new energy vehicle industry, its technology are in the process of rising: “So Tesla in the process of battery fires, some accidents occurred, first of all, are individual cases, the proportion is relatively small, in probably very difficult to avoid. Even traditional cars are likely to have small problems. But Tesla feels wronged, the Chinese government and people only take him out of the problem to talk about it, on other new energy cars out of the problem as if they were blind.”
According to several Chinese media reports, on the evening of February 8, Tesla responded on Weibo regarding being interviewed by officials from five Chinese departments: “Tesla sincerely accepts the guidance of government departments and deeply reflects on the company’s shortcomings in the operation process, and comprehensively strengthens self-examination and self-examination.” Tesla also said that it will systematically investigate, effectively implement consumer rights protection and further implement the main responsibility of enterprise quality and safety.
After Tesla’s above response, numerous netizens who wanted to criticize Tesla found that comments on the microblog were closed.
Scholars : China Tries to Squelch Tesla Cars’ Growth Rate in China
Tesla is a well-known U.S. company that has a competitive advantage among its Chinese counterparts in terms of the quality and price of its electric vehicles. An industry insider told the station that many Chinese electric car manufacturers have difficulty competing head-to-head with Tesla even with government financial subsidies, so they look for loopholes in Tesla’s products and attack them. For example, cars burning, quality problems with a particular model, etc.
The commander said, “The Chinese government may want to take this opportunity to further compress the space for foreign companies to develop new energy vehicles in China, and he (the Chinese government) is trying to give market share, more to domestic enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises or mixed ownership.”
According to Jingchu.com, last month, Nanchang citizens were unable to start their newly purchased Tesla electric cars after they malfunctioned while charging them. Shanghai citizen Mr. Chen called himself a “prospective Tesla owner”, but after visiting the 4S store on the ground to see the actual car, his thoughts were somewhat shaken. “The main thing is that the manufacturer’s attitude towards the problem makes people feel uneasy.” Mr. Chen told the media reporter, before in the network forum, many owners had complained about the quality of the interior of the vehicle is not up to par, the existence of water leakage problems in the rain, etc..
Tesla allegedly can become a spy tool
Guan Xuejun, president of China Car Select, recently said in a forum that Tesla cars can be a tool to obtain Chinese intelligence. He said in a forum dialogue: “Today we have Tesla, all its radar, probes, actually the same reason as when spies used the eyes of dogs. Because the whole transmission system of Tesla is through the system of the U.S. military. If we talk about it more seriously, we can think that Tesla car in the Chinese land, and even a lot of secret service personnel bought Tesla, then, all your secret information directly to the U.S. military.”
For the conversation in the above video, it sounds like a bridge in a movie. However, Mr. Li, a car user, finds such sensational reasoning unconvincing. He said there is an important reason why Tesla is being ostracized in China: “An important reason is with Tesla’s recent remarks are more in favor of freedom of speech, to speak out for freedom of speech, including that he has to get a website and an operating system. As for whether Tesla is going to use the car for espionage, I think this thing only a certain country will do, other countries do not care to do such nasty things.”
Tesla founder Musk has also made a number of out-of-the-ordinary remarks recently, including a call for users to switch to communication software to safeguard personal privacy. He also joined in the discussion on Clubhouse, which has been very popular lately, and China blocked Clubhouse on Monday.
Wang Bin, an adviser to the Wuhan Automobile After-Sales Service Association, said Tesla’s every move from its entry into the Chinese market to a significant price cut on its main model has sparked massive discussions.
(Original title: Netizen Office and other departments interview Tesla, public opinion says product endangers national security)
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