The downside is... that it's Chinese? BYD products are way more proven than any EV technology America has ever touched. I think you're just racist.

unproven chinese tech bruh

cope harder little chud

If anything the fact that it's Chinese should be viewed as a good guarantee that it works. Not because the Chinese are inherently superior or can't make mistakes, but because China is a huge market and a product that has already been sold to and used by millions of Chinese consumers has effectively undergone more rigorous testing than almost anything else you can imagine.

How much more "proven" can something get? There is no better test of a technology than it being successfully sold and widely accepted in a country as gigantic as China. This should be entirely uncontroversial, it is just simple math.

The Chinese domestic market for everything EV related is incredibly competitive compared to what we have in the West. Most Chinese brands don't even make it out of China (because there are so many Chinese brands and because China itself is a sufficiently large market that they don't need to expand internationally to be successful) and those that do, do so because they have proven to be a cut above the rest.

Considering how many Tesla's have spontaneously combusted I find this comment incredibly ironic

I accept these points if you exclude "Chinese" lol how does the nation of origin have anything to do with it?

People say made in China stuff is cheap and unreliable. Bruh they make everything, not just the cheap stuff.