| Norway is (I believe?) the flagship country for Tesla, so it may be more difficult to pierce. I remember EV's penetration is super high there. Very cool link to see the imports! I was questioning availability of the cars, because I think this is the key issue for BYD. I wouldn't want to buy a car where you cannot get support. In Estonia for example, Tesla's are not very popular for that reason, because for a long time, you couldn't even buy them from the official website (so you had to go through gray imports and drive to Finland for the routine maintenance), it's somewhat better now. But BYD is simply unreasonably difficult to purchase, and if you do, then just doing a routine maintenance (or if you have an accident) sounds much more difficult than Tesla. Once they solve that distribution problem (and don't get under political sanctions), I think they can be really great cars. |
That's the problem, I believe BYD will be sanctioned to hell in Europe (not to mention USA). They will, however, easily dominate on BRICS and other places outside rich western countries.