Tests Show Chinese-made Buses Have Kill Switches, Can Be Halted Remotely

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of videos online of people glazing Chinese electric vehicles. How good they are. How fast they are. How well designed and sleek they are. How luxurious the interiors are. How good they are on power. And even how good they are on price. Basically, how they knock it out of the park compared to American EVs.

I’ve also seen quite a few business videos, of people criticizing the United States for not allowing Chinese TVs into our market—for fear it would collapse U.S. auto manufacturing.

Now, that might all be true. However, there’s another factor to consider, which is that when you’re dealing with a Communist nation like China, nothing is ever as it seems. Case in point, Norway is now finding out that the Electric buses they’ve been buying from the Chinese have a backdoor—which allows them to be disabled remotely. i.e. by someone outside of Norway.

Let’s dive into this particular story together, because through it a lot of different issues get exposed to the public including how government officials try to save money by buying from China, only to find out that the stuff they bought contains literal kill-switches that can be activated by Communist cadres in the CCP.

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0:00.0	It turns out that many of the large industrial products coming out of China, things like buses, solar panels, cranes, inverters, things like that, are coming equipped with communication devices that can send signals back to China.
0:15.1	And furthermore, some of this equipment is coming equipped with kill switches, meaning that these things can be switched off, sabotaged, and deactivated with the click of a few buttons by some communist cadre.
0:28.8	Very cool. Let's go through it together right after you smash those like and subscribe buttons so those information can reach ever more people via the YouTube algorithm.
0:35.6	Now, to start with, there have been a lot of videos online recently of people basically
0:39.5	glazing Chinese electric vehicles.
0:42.5	How good they are, how fast they are, how well-designed and sleek they are, how luxurious
0:48.6	they are, how good they are on power, and even how good they are in price.
0:54.0	Basically, how they knock it out of the
0:56.2	park compared to American EVs. Also, alongside those videos, there have been a lot of people
1:02.1	criticizing the US for not allowing Chinese EVs into our market because of a fear that it would
1:08.1	basically collapse US auto manufacturing. Now, that might all be true. However, there is another factor to consider here,
1:14.5	which is that when you're dealing with a non-normal country, a communist nation like China,
1:20.2	nothing is ever as it seems. Case in point, Norway is now finding out that the electric buses
1:26.1	that they've been purchasing from a Chinese manufacturer
1:28.6	have a backdoor installed, which allows them to be disabled remotely, i.e. by someone outside of Norway.
1:36.5	You see, Norway, they basically set an ambitious climate goal, specifically that 100% of the new passenger
1:42.3	car sold in the country should be zero emission by the year 2025.
1:46.2	And even though that sounds unrealistically ambitious, they're actually pretty much achieved it.
1:50.4	Looking at data from the Norwegian Road Federation, in 2023, 82% of Norway's car sales were EVs.
1:57.3	By 2024, it was 89%. And 2025 numbers aren't in yet, but the trend is obvious. If it's not
2:03.2	going to be 100%, it's going to be close. Also, if we look at Norway compared to other developed
2:08.1	countries, they are really off the charts. The graph right there up on your screen, it uses
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