Chinese EV Competition
The cluster discusses the rapid rise of Chinese EV manufacturers like BYD, their technological and cost advantages over Tesla and Western automakers, heavy subsidies, and trade barriers such as US tariffs and bans preventing market access.
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It's more the risk of China producing a good EV themselves and selling that in the rest of the world.
Ah, your statement sounds like Chinese EVs were inevitable
Would love to see Chinese EVs in the US to get real competition
Tesla has done nothing but EVs and is laughably behind BYD. In fact, every US automotive manufacturer went to China and pretended that they wouldn't be able to catch up to them (racist) while teaching them how to build automobiles. Now everyone (especially Tesla) is crying foul and trying to invoke protectionism.
This _hasn't_ happened in Europe, which has lower tariff barriers on Chinese cars. BYD has about 15-20% of the EV market, as do VW, Stelantis, Tesla, Hyundai and BMW (unlike the US or China the European market doesn't have one clearly dominant player in EVs); no other Chinese manufacturer really moves the needle (though MG (SAIC) is regionally popular).
Why is it dangerous to allow the Chinese people to buy Tesla cars at market price?
Cars are not critical infrastructure, also, the idea that China would turn off their EVs or starting to use them as weapons from the other side of the world is borderline absurd.Occam's razor suggests that the simplest solution is the most probable: they are scared of the competition, because they know that if those cars enter the market they will dominate it.
China subsidizes EV manufacturers. Non-Chinese manufacturers can’t compete with the companies that get tons of free money from their government and go out business. Now only China makes EVs, so they can raise prices.That’s the plan.
Their EV market is pretty competitive, and they have multiple brands all releasing EVs. Nio, BYD, and Xpeng come to mind. Compare to the US, where we only have one EV maker with a decent market share (Tesla) which has stagnated in innovation. My argument is that where China has succeeded, it has done so by adopting Western values like free-market competition (see the reforms of Deng Xiaopeng) and where the West has failed, it is due to monopolization and stagnation/decadence.
Never seen these cool Chinese EVs in the US. Is the US market closed to Chinese EV?