"BUT THE CHINESE WILL SPY ON US"
Have you seen what the Yanks have been up to?
At least the Chinese cars are inexpensive
It's pragmatism, try it out some time
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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I wonder if us Yanks can come over the border and buy some too? I want a byd π
US has threatened to not let you get tempted to visit them in a Chinese car.
yes....but if we go there, we might also get a free trip to El Salvador too
Please stay there and put out your dumpster fire of a country
"BUT THE CHINESE WILL SPY ON US"
Have you seen what the Yanks have been up to?
I would rather have neither be using my property to spy on me.
Agreed - my point is that if both are "not great", except one is cheaper....
China wins
China uses slavery and genocide to get ahead economically. Maybe we should be avoiding both.
I agree - got any ideas how to avoid that and still get reasonably priced electric cars?
America is out: "all you had to do was pay us enough to live"
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Didn't Ford do that, like the literal company. China isn't a car company and I doubt byd has directly committed acts of genocide so that's kinda one up for them
Chinese businesses don't get the loans they need to grow if they are not 100% inline with the party. BYD may not be a genocidal slave owner but they will support China's decisions every step of the way.
They really did a min-maxed speedrun of capitalism. The rich get to be rich, the government gets to imprison, enslave, and execute anyone who doesn't support them, and that let them undercut all the existing big names in manufacturing. I would bet that there is a Chinese manufactured part in every home in the world that also has electricity and plumbing.
That's spot on.
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Canadians buy 2M vehicles a year. This deal only allows in 50,000.
When Xpeng wanted to sell in EU, they had to assemble the cars in Austria with Canada's Magna.
So why is Magna making Chinese EVs in Austria, but not in Canada?
According to Statistics Canada, 264,000 EV's were sold in 2024.
50,000 of those potentially being Chinese EVs is not a small percentage. That is a significant chunk of our yearly EV sales.
The only reason why EV sales are not higher is we only get overpriced Nazi garbage for the most part.
No. There are genuine problems with EVs in the kind of cold and snow Canada sees in the heartland and up north. But you'll see lots of EVs in Vancouver, where weather is moderate.
there are tons of EVs in Southern Ontario.
50000 on year one. More later
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Are there previous of what models will be available? I'm guessing due to quota it will be their higher end ones.
It's going to be BYD, but not sure which models. A lot of theirs are quite affordable though.
They also make $80k (in China) Bugatti or Rolls Royce like VIP cars. They would sell out (quota) too quickly at $50k models.
I guess we'll see soon, the quotas might push them towards higher end cars. But in the grand scheme of things it's really going to be peanuts either way for a company the size of BYD. Their main goal is likely to just get a foothold in Canada for the long term.
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