The recent surge in fuel prices due to the war in Iran has spurred demand for electric vehicles around the world, and Chinese car makers are making the most of the opportunity.
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A huge domestic market is a strong advantage for Chinese manufacturers.
Even if every single country stops buying Chinese cars, they’ll still have a base of 1.5 billion potential customers.
With more countries actively partnering with China, this number goes up considerably.
Most Americans would not buy a Chinese car anyway.
I love that Americans pretend to be the most important and competitive market. The combined population of Europe is twice that of the US. South East Asia is 700 million. And the choices in EV’s is triple that off the US.
These are the markets Chinese manufacturers are after. These markets accept Chinese cars based on the price, quality and innovation.
Most Americans would jump at the opportunity of the price is right. They might tell you to your face they won’t but they will.
By doubling down on ICE and ultra expensive penis replacement “trucks” the Auto Industry and it’s paid up politicians there are basically committing suicide, so sooner or later there will be plenty of room in that market for auto makers with friendly priced electric cars.
But I truly want them here. I work in the automotive industry and yeah, they’re scared shitless. However, from my point of view it seems like a greed thing. It would drive competition hard and that would mean short to medium term r&d cost increases.
We are so fucking far behind it’s not even funny. Shutting out the competition is just putting our head in the sand. It is time to get into gear.
So glad that Biden decided that protecting Elon Musk’s financial interests was more important than Americans having affordable electric cars.
Every centrist who rails against tariffs but makes excuses for Biden’s protectionism is a massive hypocrite.
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LOL but why in the world would BYD say such a thing?
I think the question is not whether a company can thrive without Usa, but rather whether Us americans can stand such a statement.
Its amazing what a boon the trump cartel is for China and green energy
He should be awarded the Nobel prize for advancing environmental causes.
Sure wish rich dicks weren’t holding back innovation in my country!
they want you to buy thier overpriced evs in the us.
“free market”… oops, cept for those things.
Isn’t there another post where it shows the cars in the USA are spying on you, triggering an alarm when it detects that you are tired and what not “technological advancements” they put in them?
Hey China, you are welcome to sell me your clean cheap car!
BYD doesnt sell cars in the US according to the article so no, I don’t think BYD is spying on you.
However that other post you’re thinking of was possibly the one about the US manufacturers being forced to build in the spyware by the US govt…
Kinda the opposite to your direction of travel in tge post it seems to me ?
They’ll be selling BYD’s in Canada very soon. I wonder how that will work if there is still a Canadian that needs to cross the border into the usa and ends up in donald trump’s america? Will they let them pass? Will they confiscate the car?
they are planning to actually put spying tech in your car by 2027.
Hey China, you are welcome to sell me your clean cheap car!
Sure, but they’ll be spying on you too.
What’s better? To be spied by your government that can use your data against you or the foreign government who can’t.
In an ideal world there’d be no spying, but we don’t live in one.
even if china does have your data, probably going to run scams that likely wont affect you anyways.
I mean, I agree we don’t want spying, but: a foreign government absolutely can use your data against you. Whether its creating a profile on you that could later be used against you when you enter that country, using it for statistical or targeted data for influence campaigns…there are a lot of ways.
China in particular has repeatedly deployed extra-territorial “police service stations” in at least the UK, Canada and the US to punish or harass those it’s identified as “Chinese” dissidents or sympathizers in other countries.
On the other hand, it is very unlikely that I would willingly enter either China or US, so there is that.
Honestly, China is amazing, and well worth visiting (not just Shanghai though, which is far too westernized.) Fantastic people, too.
You wouldn’t get me in the US again at gunpoint, though.
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Not quite, but almost
“thriving car company not selling in the U.S. says it exists”
Well yeah, we know it’s doing well and it isn’t here… Why would the title even need to be stated?
To remind pedohitler that his country is not the center of the world and that others can in fact survive and thrive without him.
Pedohitler is a nice word, gonna steal it.
We know
Here ya go
Dude. Where’s the NSFW tag?
I think the rest of the world is getting there too.
If possible, every country should be self sufficient in areas they have. We were almost fully sufficient until those assholes sold everything to make a quick buck.
(Guess the country)
Edit: hint-we sold our sugar production to France so they can manage it better but instead they closed it so we have to buy sugar from them.
Edit-edit: It’s Czech republic
UK?
It’s Czech republic but yeah, I didn’t narrow it down much.
Not really narrowing it down there
All of them?
Even before this US war on Iran. BYD was already the top seller electric brand, ahead of European and United States brands, so I’m a little confused with this article.
Given the enshittification of the BBC I’d say journalist wangled a free ticket to the car show, was desperately trying to find the hook to write the story on, and asked the BYD rep something nigh on insulting like
“How can BYD be profitable when they are locked out of the world’s biggest car market ?”
And given they’re not allowed to say “We’re already doing just fine bitch, we don’t need to kiss the orange fascists taint” then you get that carefully diplomatic quote
i think they’re just reminding the conmander in chief that they in fact do NOT need murica to do well.
