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by bangaladore 439 days ago
> It isn't now. Tariffs (long-standing ones that have survived both parties in power) in fact are keeping byd from the US market to protect primarily Tesla.

This is a bad take. Nobody can compete with BYD. This isn't a Tesla vs BYD issue, this is a Everyone vs Cheap labor and deregulation issue.
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AtlasBarfed 439 days ago
Byd is a product of CCP subsidies, of course they can be competed with

It would simply take a government capable of recognizing the multifold benefits of EV transition: environmental, geopolitical oil independence, energy efficiency, associated alt energy rollout and grid adaptation, lower total costs and associated economic benefits, reduced cancer and air pollution death rates, reduced logistics costs.

That's just off the top of my head and I'm not even that smart

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bangaladore 436 days ago
> Byd is a product of CCP subsidies, of course they can be competed with

If you ignore the 1/5 (not exactly sure, but somewhere in that ballpark) labor cost, sure. And that's one example.

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