50k per year
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
Dumbfuck Doug in there begging for Carney to be even more subservient to the US
What's up with the tariffs in the first place? Does Canada even make EV's or were they just obeying the US?
blindly obeying the empire, we manufacture alot of the american brands in ontario so it was sold as protecting our automotive industry lol
Ontario has an auto manufacturing sector. But yes it was just Trudeau following the dumbass Biden move without real thought put into it.
America yanked on the leash, but Canada's most populous province also has a large car manufacturing industry. All American brands btw, Canada has no national car brands.
Chuds are going to be absolutely malding about this 
I'm hoping for a seething response from the US regime, resulting in more tariffs or some other nonsense targeted at Canada. 
The libs are already 
trying to lib-splain how this is bad because the automotive industry will die because of china. And also they're clutching pearls so hard about how getting in bed with evil Xi will bear so harshly on our national conscience. Deeply afraid of authoritarian china, but curiously they can never explain how it was okay we were allied with the biggest evil for a century.
I mean it is unalloyed bad news for Canadian autoworkers, but since Canada's industrial policy with respect to autoworkers is already a failure that pays out foreign shareholders more than workers, it's hard not to see the silver lining of cheaper, better, non-nazi manufactured EVs in Canada.
With this news -- along with the relocation of autofactories down to the US -- are we seeing the state's resignation towards Canada's already-faltering auto manufacturing sector?
Right now there are at least 5 billion a year in gov subsidies being committed to the big auto manufacturers (~10% of what is spent of Canada's "defense" budget)...
Per this source the Ontario auto sector employs 90k people, so doing some math that comes to nearly $60k/employee/year, god damn why not just pay them directly to all sit around playing world of warcraft or something instead
Canada makes cars??
Canada has no companies of its own but it does assemble American cars to be sold in America.
come on, pick a different name! you don't want people saying "drives like a Brick"
But why is the car circumcised?
It was a different time (1975).
My favorite part of this is that Canada will have better cars than the US. This is going to be yet another serious blow to the US automotive industry, which is like one of the few industries the US even has that builds real things anymore. Hilarious how the US just cannot stop making unforced error after unforced error
Did they remove the solar tariffs too?
Missing the major win here:
Carney also said Xi has committed to visa-free travel for Canadians to China.
Canada is not the US's hat. The US is Canada's pants.
