NAMMI Vigo Review From Himalayan Chaos w/ @CarHaru

So, of course, I'm at the car show in Nepal. Hopefully, the music isn't too

Nepal. Hopefully, the music isn't too loud and too copyright. If it is, ah, maybe it maybe I've got a weird AI voice. Now, I'm going to be reviewing

voice. Now, I'm going to be reviewing this uh this uh this really cool Nami here uh with K Aru uh a big cool channel in Nepal. You can check him out. Link

in Nepal. You can check him out. Link

will be in the description. Let's get to it. I'm Brian. Welcome to Future Raza.

it. I'm Brian. Welcome to Future Raza.

[Music] So, >> we are at the Dong Fang booth. We're

going to Dongfang it up right here. This

is a car we know. We've already driven this. I have driven this in the

this. I have driven this in the mountains. Terrifying. Do not recommend.

mountains. Terrifying. Do not recommend.

One star. Uh, but this is They've got the bigger cars now. The Nami.

Nami VGO and I guess regular Nami.

Sure, why not? Uh, so if we look at it, I don't know. It's got nice big wheels like you would expect. The high

shoulders safety factor cuz if you look at it, the windows are quite small. Uh

which means you can, you know, in a rollover much better protection having all this steel. And if you tried to lower the shoulders in a car this size,

it starts to look like a male truck. Uh

and this one of course is a female truck. No, I don't think that's right. I

truck. No, I don't think that's right. I

think I misunderstood that they got rid of the texturing on the dash that would reflect and make it look like it's always like the windshield is always dirty. And uh yeah, we're

always dirty. And uh yeah, we're checking it out.

What do you think of this car?

>> Yeah, this is a nice car. I think this is a value for money car in Nepal.

>> It just cost around it starts from 38 lakh.

>> That means around 3 $30,000.

>> Oh wow.

>> Yeah. Okay.

>> And this is a compact size SUV.

>> Yeah. This is a good size car. I mean

this is a big car for the city.

>> Yeah, >> that's a prohibitively big car for the city.

>> It length is almost 4.3 meters.

>> Okay.

>> And people really like SUV here in Nepal because of the space and they also need the good ground clearance because of the condition of the roads.

>> Yes, the roads are >> pretty good.

>> Pretty good. Yeah, they're pretty good.

>> And people love the tech. the tech the EV offers here in Nepal like this Dongfang Nami VGO it's offered so much in that price range >> if you buy a ICE vehicle petrol or

diesel in 40 lakh you can't give get a proper SUV here in Nepal >> okay and a lot of that's because of the import tariff difference >> yeah it's almost cost around 270%

import tax >> that is ridiculous >> that is that is really high than normal normal. Raj says totally agreeable and

normal. Raj says totally agreeable and acceptable and uh makes makes people happy, specifically the people collecting it >> and no one else. Certainly not the

distributors, certainly not the buyers.

>> Uh when you're buying now, you've driven all over the country.

>> Yeah.

>> Uh you've done 27,000 27 >> I have done 33,000 kilometers on my own EV.

>> And how have you found charging to be when you're not at home? Uh before like two years back the infrastructure was not so good but right now even a small

hotel have charging station.

>> Oh wow. Really?

>> Roadside hotel.

>> Wow.

>> Because he wouldn't go there.

>> Well yes. And if all new cars and it's not all it's 76% >> uh are electric. You have to do that or you're not going to get the business.

And not only in passenger segment like cars, small cars, SUV, people are also selecting EVs for the commercial purpose like they are buying the vans for the

transportation from one place to another and they are replacing the older Toyota highest.

>> Yeah.

>> Like the king loan and stuff.

>> Yes. So you've got the trucks, you've got the vans, you've got the buses.

>> Yeah. Right. And not the big buses, but like 20seater buses.

>> Yeah.

>> Like a minivan.

>> Mhm. Well, that's a pretty big van. Um,

you've also got the scooters.

>> Yeah, in two hillers. The adaptation is not so good like on four-wheelers, but people are switching to electrics because of the value for money proposition. You don't have to pay for

proposition. You don't have to pay for the fuel and the cost is almost like similar to petrol cars, petrol scooters or two hillers. The reason behind that

is because of the taxation. the taxation

on two hillers on petrol or the fuel or the gas two hillers and the electrics are the same. That's why the cost is almost a bit a bit higher than the gas

twoers.

>> So, and then once you've got it, uh, keeping it on the road is cheaper.

>> Yeah.

>> That's why people are switching to electric.

>> Yeah. because all that hydro power is pretty affordable and there's no there's no oil drilling in Nepal.

>> Yeah.

>> Uh so that's >> and it's 100% clean energy.

>> Yes.

>> Produced from water resources.

>> A fun one. I was talking about hydro in a video the other day and I got comments from what were obviously bots because they were brand new accounts with no

account history, no uploaded profile picture or anything. all saying, and it was like three or four of them saying, um, hydro isn't clean or green at all.

It's the worst. It's like, come on, you guys.

Where if if the focus group you were in at the oil company thought that was a good idea, you were lied to. They were

clowning you. Uh, I wonder what the worst ideas they came up with were cuz that was bad.

So, uh, on three-wheelers, Nepal's had those for a long time, electric three-wheelers.

>> Three wheelers. Yeah.

>> Uh, with regular lead acid batteries, are you seeing those with lithium batteries now?

>> Now, they are switching to lead lithium ion batteries, but it's still some brands have that older batteries, but people are switching to lead acid from to lithium ion.

>> Yes. And have you noticed the air getting cleaner yet or is it too soon?

Uh I think it's too soon. Nepal is

really a small country and the pollution we get here get here in Kathmandu or the bigger cities in Nepal is not because of the industry or the pollution from the

vehicles. It because of the air

vehicles. It because of the air pollution from our neighboring countries like India. India is really close to

like India. India is really close to Nepal and we get the industrial pollution from India.

>> Yes. But if you if you look around Kathmandu during the holidays or during the peak hour, people are using the electric vehicles and we can't see the

smoke nowadays. Now I think it's cleaner

smoke nowadays. Now I think it's cleaner but we can't measure it right away like some percentage or the figures we can say really right now

>> because this electric revolution in Nepal is new.

>> Yeah.

>> It it started like in the last few years right?

>> Five years. I think I'll say like five to six years.

>> Yeah. And uh what about the noise level on the street? Has that gone down yet?

>> I think yes.

>> Because every scooter you replace, every old car you replace >> is a is little bit less noise.

>> Yeah, for sure.

>> Nowadays, while I I was driving my older car that was a petrol car and now have switched to EV from past 2 years. When I

drive a patrol or gas car now, I feel that the noise is so loud.

>> Yes. Yes. It sounds like it's it sounds like it's gasping for air like it's sick.

>> And al and also the another thing whenever I see some car or some bosses or older trucks they are throwing out that >> that cloud of smog.

>> I think like I can also check monitor the PM2.5 in my car.

>> Yes. And the PM2 jumps from around 10 to almost 800 900.

>> Wow. And uh and what do you drive?

>> I drive a BYD.

>> Okay.

>> BYD at 3.

>> Yeah. Yeah. I had a chance to drive the seal.

>> Seal >> in Mexico City. That was

>> If you want to drive any car here in Nepal, I can manage that for you. I can

talk with the distributor or someone or people I know. See this

>> this is why this is why we're hanging out >> al also to get in today. Uh we wanted to get in before the general admission and

uh he made it happen.

>> He came all the way from so far I can do that.

>> Yeah >> and I really love your passion coming here in Nepal and I really thank you for that.

>> Yeah. Well, I I uh am glad to be here and it's uh the people have been wonderful and I appreciate it. So,

looking at this leg room, uh that's pretty good.

>> Yeah, >> that's like >> I have also done a video review of this one.

>> Oh, okay.

>> Like last last week and I really love this car. I think this is a value for

this car. I think this is a value for money car. There are other cars too. We

money car. There are other cars too. We

can I think we should also check out other cars.

>> We will do that. He'll be back. Um, and

I'll put up some uh a clip from his video on screen now and of course link in the description. You can check him out. He's very

out. He's very >> I'll be speaking on my own mother language, Nepali language. I think it will be hard for for your audience to understand.

>> But there's subtitles. I'm sure there's captions.

>> Yeah, I have put some subtitles on some of the videos. You can check that.

>> And YouTube will automatically caption videos sometimes and it's >> but unfortunately and it's not great.

>> But unfortunately not for Nepali language.

>> Really?

>> Yeah. Oh, no. That's not good. Okay.

Well, uh, at the very least, you get to look at his happy face. So, that's good.

Uh, so we'll go ahead and, uh, show some of that now. And then, uh, I don't know.

Uh, like, subscribe, do all that. If you

like videos in Nepalese, then you can, uh, subscribe to him as well. Uh, but in the meantime, I thank you for your time and, uh, yeah, let's keep the party going, guys. Uh stay tuned, stay juicy,

going, guys. Uh stay tuned, stay juicy, and I can't wait to hear from you clever robots. Maybe when you come to Nepal.

robots. Maybe when you come to Nepal.

So one thing we're going to show here is when you fire up the old dong fang, you have to um in Nepal, at least in Catand do, there's traffic everywhere. So you

have to change the emergency brake assist and turn it off every single time you drive because if you don't, it'll be slamming on the brakes constantly,

right? I mean it would see

right? I mean it would see >> if it does then the ve vehicle from the back would smash your back.