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I Bought a Banned Chinese Car From a Rental Company for $2,000
LongAutos & Vehiclespaid promotion
Published Oct 20, 2026
Views
2M
Likes
59K
Speed /h
41K
+24h
+551K
Early catch
Updated 04:10 AMBeat 90% of videos its age, 11 h after upload.
- Vs usual
- 2×
- Views/h now
- 23K
- Channel size
- 1M
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 2.4M
- Best hour
- +53.9K
- At 24 hours
- 1.4M
- At 7 days
- –
31 of 46 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 86 / 100
- Category percentile
- 98 / 100
- ×base
- ×2
- Channel typical
- 1M · median
Dynamics
- Phase
- steady
- Acceleration
- 0.57×
- Momentum
- ×0.44
- Decay
- 0.43
- Speed half-life
- 10d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 2.47%
- Comments per 1k views
- 2.28
- Engagement rate
- 2.70%
- Views per subscriber
- 1.24×
- Crossed a language border
- No
◆ Calculated by viralshooter from YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics and not endorsed by YouTube.
| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | Category chart | #13 | Oct 21 |
| Norway | Category chart | #14 | Oct 21 |
| New Zealand | Category chart | #19 | Oct 21 |
| Sweden | Category chart | #26 | Oct 22 |
| Canada | Category chart | #31 | Oct 22 |
| United States | Category chart | #35 | Oct 22 |
| Australia | Category chart | #42 | Oct 22 |
2d
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 20, 2026, 7:03 PM
- Duration
- 58:12
- Category
- Autos & Vehicles
- Audio language
- English (en)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- Yes
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Lifestyle
- Vehicle
Title and description in 21 languages
- Arabic
- Bangla
- English
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Punjabi
- Polish
- Russian
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Ukrainian
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Dutch
- Portuguese
Tags (27)
- Polestar 2
- Polestar
- Chinese EV
- Chinese electric cars
- banned Chinese cars
- China car ban
- Polestar ban
- Hertz EV
- Hertz rental cars
- Hertz auction
- cheap electric cars
- $2000 electric car
- $2900 Polestar
- salvage EV
- broken electric car
- EV repair
- Polestar 2 repair
- Polestar 2 problems
- electric car restoration
- Geely
- Volvo Polestar
- CATL battery
- Chinese battery technology
- EV battery repair
- abandoned electric cars
- right to repair
- Rich Rebuilds Polestar
Description
Shout out to CATL! The Standard that focuses on what matters: safety, reliability, and long battery life. #CATL Check out THINKCAR for your next diagnostic tool, FREE UPDATES: https://amzn.to/4yVuAzg America says this car is too Chinese, so naturally, I bought one. Hertz has been dumping its electric cars at auction, and I managed to pick up a nearly 500-horsepower Polestar 2 for just $2,900. only catch it doesn't run, So we're going to find out what's actually wrong with this thing and whether this ridiculously cheap EV is secretly a bargain or a complete disaster. For sponsorship inquiries contact us here - [email protected] My E-mail: [email protected] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richiebkidd/ Mailbox: Rich Rebuilds P.O. Box 1041 Salem, MA 01970Show all
Shout out to CATL! The Standard that focuses on what matters: safety, reliability, and long battery life. #CATL Check out THINKCAR for your next diagnostic tool, FREE UPDATES: https://amzn.to/4yVuAzg America says this car is too Chinese, so naturally, I bought one. Hertz has been dumping its electric cars at auction, and I managed to pick up a nearly 500-horsepower Polestar 2 for just $2,900. only catch it doesn't run, So we're going to find out what's actually wrong with this thing and whether this ridiculously cheap EV is secretly a bargain or a complete disaster. For sponsorship inquiries contact us here - [email protected] My E-mail: [email protected] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richiebkidd/ Mailbox: Rich Rebuilds P.O. Box 1041 Salem, MA 01970
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API