Canada

While you're all trying to figure out China and the US and oil geopolitics and greenhouse gases and such, I'll be riding in a European, Korean or Japanese EV M'kay? Kay.

This is happening because the CDN government knows this is moot. The Chinese EV industry is in freefall and even BYD is failing to pay it's part suppliers.

BYD is $45B in debt.

Chinese EV makers not paying parts suppliers

Chinese EVs are the next Evergrande

And CDNs are not buying EVs. F150s still rule the sales charts.

ZEVs made up 7.8% of new vehicles sold in Prince Edward Island, followed by Ontario (7.4%), Nova Scotia (6.5%), New Brunswick (5.7%), Manitoba (4.9%), Alberta (4.2%), Newfoundland and Labrador (2.6%) and Saskatchewan (2.5%).

The only province buying EVs is Quebec.

There's a very large secondary reason that the gov should be blocking Chinese EVs beside the threat to our auto parts industry. Every new EV is a rolling data collector. Your phone captures a lot of data but its not covered in cameras that collect and transmit video/pics on everywhere you go and everything you pass and everywhere you park (like a Tesla does: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/).

The Chinese are famous for copying everything they can and then producing it cheaper than the original and flooding the market with copies that are a fraction of the cost. Their goal is to dominate the world market in every area and they are well on the way. Look at home much stuff we now buy on Amazon/Aliexpress/Alibaba/Shein/Temu compared to just a few years ago.

With camera covered, GPS tracked, net connected EVs there is no way to keep the last vestige of our corporate and private lives from being collected and analyzed by the Chinese government and government linked corporations. And thats not just a threat to the auto industry thats a threat to every industry in Canada and I would dare to say, to our democracy.

We cannot and should not allow Chinese EVs into Canada. Ever.