No details about the found cars are reported, but some assumptions about them can still be made. First, judging by the license plates, the dump is located in China. Second, the hatchbacks have stickers and liveries of Panda Auto, a subsidiary of the local automaker Lifan, which specializes in electric car rental.
The cars themselves can also be identified: these are Chinese electric cars Lifan 330EV, which externally resemble FIAT 500 and MINI Cooper. The 330EV went on sale in 2015, when they were sold in China for 22,600 – 23,000 dollars. Such electric cars could travel up to 150 km on a single charge and accelerate to 100 km/h, which was a good indicator for those years.
Why did the electric cars end up in such a state? Obviously, this is related to the bankruptcy of Panda Auto itself, which foreign media wrote about at the beginning of this year. It was reported that due to the internal crisis of Lifan, the company could not return user deposits within the agreed period, as a result of which it was forced to file for restructuring and bankruptcy. In turn, Lifan was bought out by the Geely Auto Group concern last year after accumulating significant debts of 4.64 billion dollars.
By the way, the Panda Auto fleet numbered more than 20,000 cars, and the number of registered users was more than 4 million. The platform was presented in 12 cities in China, such as Hangzhou, Chengdu and Zhengzhou.
