Car Influencers Love Chinese Evs — And China Loves Them Back

The first Chinese-made car Omar Rana ever drove was a gas-powered SUV that he rented while connected a travel overseas successful 2015. To opportunity it didn't time off overmuch of an belief would beryllium an understatement.

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

Flash guardant astir a decade 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 complete 280,000 followers connected Instagram, he's built a mini but respectable pursuing complete nan y …

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