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Canada is getting BYD folks, you love to see it
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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Canada is not the US's hat. The US is Canada's pants.
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in 2025 there were 1.9 million new cars sold in Canada. this is bullshit.
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.
that is an excellent point. thank you
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.
BYD sold ~100k cars in Mexico in 2025 (but I think many were PHEV)
Kanada not being obscenely racist aganst China on behalf of amerika, is a good start. Hopefully Xi gets to him and we get more
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.
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.
Apparently it's based on the pre-tarriff market share, and that it can be increased if the target is met but I'm just an idiot so don't take my word for it
BYD is absolutely popping off internationally, its an intial commitment to a new market