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VinFast To Unveil Tiny VF 3 EV And Mystery Concept At CES
Carscoops ^ | Brad Anderson

Posted on 12/28/2023 12:14:24 PM PST by cba123

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“VinFast's U.S. dealerships have already expressed a lot of interest in the sub-$20,000 VF 3“
1 posted on 12/28/2023 12:14:24 PM PST by cba123
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“a multitude of issues....”

Well that certainly sounds reassuring


2 posted on 12/28/2023 12:17:39 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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More EV crap. Yawn...


3 posted on 12/28/2023 12:17:49 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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https://freerepublic.com/tag/vinfast/index?tab=articles


4 posted on 12/28/2023 12:25:28 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: cba123

There are a TON of VinFast in Vietnam, loads of them.

They are working the production bugs out here, by the time production begins in America, we will have a good $13,000 car, made in Americca.

At least after the rebate. 😎

Looks like 2026.


5 posted on 12/28/2023 12:28:49 PM PST by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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Nothing like "free" money to make once unaffordable things affordable. Can they do that with mortgages? Gasoline? Food? Heating bills?

How about nice vacations?

We need to replace "E Pluribus Unum" with...


6 posted on 12/28/2023 12:33:55 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Looks like 2026.

2026? You mean the year manufacturers have to add devices to allow remote shut-of, and other devices to make sure you are not driving impaired? Of course, traction control and rear view cameras are already required, as are air bags. If these folks were just allowed to make cars, who knows how reasonably priced they could be?
7 posted on 12/28/2023 12:35:20 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Red Badger

Hey thanks.

(Bookmark)


8 posted on 12/28/2023 12:35:24 PM PST by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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This is where EV’s should have begun, not as replacement of gas/diesel powered sedans, but as small city-suburban vehicles that neither would have needed a long range, giant battery packs, long recharge times and high prices. Those cars would not have needed any state or federal subsidies either. From there, gradually, under 100% free market conditions, the cars would have evolved, grown some market share and grown in size as well.

Instead the EV makers went straight to trying to replace the best gas/diesel cars in the market. Now the manufacturers and dealers are left with inventory they can’t sell.


9 posted on 12/28/2023 12:52:01 PM PST by Wuli
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Like a $500 dollar 2 stroke gas go-kart
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10 posted on 12/28/2023 1:03:23 PM PST by desertsolitaire ( M)
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To: cba123

Needs a new name. How about VinSlow? VinPoky? VinSubsidized? VinEgar?


11 posted on 12/28/2023 1:04:05 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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VinInferno


12 posted on 12/28/2023 1:24:49 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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LOL...Good one.

VinBlazer?


13 posted on 12/28/2023 1:30:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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As far as I know, there are NO specific crash testing requirements to ensure that EVs are safe. So they aren’t.


14 posted on 12/28/2023 1:34:54 PM PST by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends" - Barak Hussein Obama)
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Just what we need another POS EV.


15 posted on 12/28/2023 2:46:33 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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I as extremely lucky to recently get to sons a week on St Thomas in the USVI. Automotively it’s a weird place. They drive US standard left-hand drive cars but they drive them on the left ala Britain.

The roads are tiny, gasoline is $5/gal snd top speed limit is 35mph. There is near constant bright sunshine. It’s possibly the best sort of environment for an EV

Anywhere else they suck.


16 posted on 12/28/2023 4:13:24 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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I don’t know.

We are still in America about two years from seeing the real cheap ev’s, and I don’t know if the really strong tax rebates will continue, but ev’s continue to get cheaper, and more robust, both.

But the auto markets are going to be turned on their heads, soon.

Already, China is crossing 50% of their new cars being ev’s.

America is not as aggressive as China at adopting ev’s, but we will.

Absolutely.

2 years I think, then things in the US will also start to change, big time.

Ev’s are going to be very, very cheap.

Soon.


17 posted on 12/28/2023 7:03:21 PM PST by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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I think Americans are not quite as focused as China, on making things really cheap.

I dialed into Alibaba yesterday, just to look. Everything just continues to get cheaper, and cheaper. And there are SO MANY places offering mini ev’s now.

The prices just continue to fall. About a year ago I got exactly what some here are suggesting VinFast will be. A very cheap, 3-wheel electric vehicle my wife and I can take to the mall together. It was cheap last year, but the price keeps dropping. They are now well below $500. Mine was purchased here in Vietnam.

Now we can’t go far with it, can’t carry a whole lot of groceries with it, but we can make it several miles there, several miles back, it (sort of) has a roof for when it rain, we are very comfortable with riding it together, and we brought back 11 bags of groceries 2 weeks ago. Relatively secure here, and it is so cheap nobody is likely to steal it. It is pretty slow. 😎

That however, is not what will soon be available.

What we will have a true car. Seats four, sporty, quick and a relatively good range. And cheap.

Just not yet.


18 posted on 12/28/2023 7:46:07 PM PST by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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I have a $500 (electric) go-cart.

Hey it works fine. Can actually take it all the way to downtown Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon, and back. Not going to win (any) races with it…

But they are rapidly improving now. I think two years now…


19 posted on 12/28/2023 7:55:30 PM PST by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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Let me try to post this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgaVawxXtGQ

That is the VinFast VF3 (hopefully)

😎


20 posted on 12/28/2023 8:03:38 PM PST by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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