It’s really hard to understand that we are capable of leaving all of this here.” The part that you see in the photo looks like a car graveyard but, if you go farther, there are thousands and thousands of cars parked in a more traditional parking lot.īut the cars in the “car graveyard” have just been left there in terrible conditions. I visited a bunch of sites during a two day stay and that’s when I found this car graveyard “People told me to check out this region and I found a lot of satellite images using Chinese navigators. He took the image on for “Abandoned China”, a book project that he has been working on for the past six months. Our team contacted the man who runs the Greg Abandoned Instagram account and he confirmed that the photo was taken in China. Une publication partagée par 🄶🆁🄴🅶 🄰🅱🄰🅽🄳🅾🄽🅴🄳 is an Instagram post by the Greg Abandoned account from June 19, 2021. Most of the cars in the viral photo have the same green paint and the same logo, in Chinese, printed on the back door.
We ran a Google search using keywords in English and pulled up several articles that talked about an electric car made by Kandi that was used in Hangzhou, China, including this article by Green Car Reports published in 2014 and this article published in the Global Times China. A few comments gave even more details, explaining that these cars were made by the brand Kandi and that the lot shown here is in a suburb of the city of Hangzhou. In this case, a number of people commented on the viral image, saying that the cars in the photos weren’t in France, they were actually in China. Moreover, you can often get clues from the comments section.
#Car graveyard license
This screengrab shows a series of images tweeted by that compare the license plates visible in the viral image with Chinese license plates.
The tweet below, which was posted in response to a tweet aimed at the city of Paris, points that out. First of all, the license plates on the cars are all blue- which is the case in China. There are several clues we found that help us identify where this photo was taken. But these new photos definitely don’t show the lot in Romorantin-Lanthenay- the landscape is totally different as are the cars.Ī man who explores urban environments documented this car graveyard in China in May 2021. Our team wrote an article about this empty lot because, awhile back, photos of it started circulating on Facebook in the United States- totally out of context. There are a bunch of Autolib electric cars stored in an empty lot in the town of Romorantin-Lanthenay, which is in the Loir-et-Cher region. This tweet was shared five thousand times. This is a screengrab of a tweet talking about electric cars belonging to the city of Paris. Shared more than 4,600 times, the following tweet, in English, mentions “electric cars belonging to the city of Paris”. “Go to Romorantin, there is a junkyard with all the Bolloré cars belonging to the city of Paris,” reads another. “This is in Romorantin, those are Autolib cars from Paris, cars from Bolloré, Anne Hidalgo’s pal” reads one post, in French. Several social media users said that the photo was taken in France and showed out-of-commission vehicles used by Autolib, an electric car sharing program that operated in Paris and its environs until 2018. There is little context shared with these posts, which underline the irony of a bunch of electric cars being dumped in a field- even though electric cars are supposed to be better for the environment. Check out the link by clicking on the image. The post, in French, includes a sarcastic caption that reads, “Turns out, it’s true that electric cars are good for the environment… look, they are growing in a field!” Screengrab of a Facebook post shared more than 15 million times. The photo, which shows several hundred small white cars in an overgrown field, has been shared as many as 15 thousand times on Facebook, not to mention Twitter.
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