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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

That's when Walmart starts selling its own store brand cars.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dat surveillance tho...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would you rather have an authoritarian government with jurisdiction over your home spying on you or one without power local to you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd prefer my car not spy on me, either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Better get rid of your phone, then.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have evidence of this, or just “hurr durr China bad”?

BYD sell vehicles all over the world, including Europe which has stringent safety requirements.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I can't speak for them, but cars and EVs in particular have their issues. And I say this as an EV owner. The biggest issue I have is battery volatility and the trouble of putting out an EV if they catch fire, which generally seems to be mostly a risk in higher speed collisions. It's a huge infrastructure hurdle for our firefighters.

That being said, necessity breeds innovation, the more common EVs become, the more people that will be working on a solution.

Competition from Chinese EVs are only going to be a good thing for American buyers. Why the hell are most longer range EVs $40k or more after incentives? Lack of options and lack of competition is my bet. And if you're worried about cheap labor and materials being unfair competition I have bad news, American brands also build their cars in Mexico and purchase materials from dubious sources.