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Canada is getting BYD folks, you love to see it (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/canada@hexbear.net
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Canada is dropping the EV tariffs and will be importing 50k Chinese EVs per year. Carney quoted as saying by 2030 an EV in Canada will cost $35k which is a sure shot more affordable than buying the latest $80000 Child Obliterator

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[–] 30 points 8 months ago (10 children)

50k per year

in 2025 there were 1.9 million new cars sold in Canada. this is bullshit.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It's 1k more than Tesla sold in Canada last year, and it's a ramping-up number year-over-year. Also, the comparison must be made to how many EVs were sold in Canada, not how many cars overall, and this is basically an extra 25-30% of the total EV supply sold in 2024.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    that is an excellent point. thank you

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    As an addendum, if EVs are forced to become cheaper, all other cars must follow or go unsold. This is also a strategic entry for Chinese EVs into North America. They're such overwhelmingly better cars that they make all American cars look bad in comparison.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Kanada not being obscenely racist aganst China on behalf of amerika, is a good start. Hopefully Xi gets to him and we get more

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago*

    This is to be expected. We already know that China switched from Venezuelan to Canadian crude since last November after the Trump-Xi meeting:

    So the US already gave China ample time to reroute its oil supply before the recent operation in Venezuela. It’s not hard to see that the US is picking off the anti-American countries one by one, from Venezuela to Iran, to gain control in Latin America and the Middle East.

    Meanwhile, China’s rapprochement with South Korea recently is also to be expected as the US withdraws from the Asia-Pacific region and letting Japan to take the brunt.

    If you think the US’s goal is to defeat China, then you’re thinking too small. The US wants to eat the entire globe.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Once Canadians get that first hit of BYD goodness they will clamour for more. Only issue I can see is with so few being imported the dealers will do big markups and negate the value prop of Chinese EVs.

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