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.

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

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

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.

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.

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??