• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    just a friendly reminder that BYD is heavily subsidized by the Chinese government specifically to provide this edge in competitiveness.

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      26 minutes ago

      Wait until you find out how much is given to north American car manufacturers. They build low quality overpriced crap. Time for a shake up. I’m glad they are afraid of Chinese cars coming to Canada. This is the same BS when the Japanese cars arrived.

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      58 minutes ago

      We no longer have an auto industry in Australia, so BYD can subsidise all they want. Cheaper cars for us.

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        5 hours ago

        A bit more than 3 billion, a fair amount of it from state and local sources. Also, much of not exclusive to Tesla. (though in practice much of it was, simply because for the longest time was the only real EV manufacturer.

        On the other hand, BYD received a bit less than 4 billion in subsidies that were exclusive to BYD.

        The US EV subsidies weren’t about increasing competitiveness on foreign markets, but rather to increase adoption of EV’s domestically. That is untrue of BYD’s subsidies.

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            4 hours ago

            and how many has BYD accrued and sold? they’re available to BYD every bit as much as Tesla.

            Musk is a nazis, and he profits every second from Tesla. but that doesn’t make BYD the good guys.

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              AFAIK you can’t get BYD Atto3 in USA or any other ordinary BYD car, because USA won’t allow competition, and has posted steep tariffs on cars from China and EU.
              So how the fuck would BYD have received carbon credits for 10 years where thy haven’t been able to sell cars in USA?

              Tesla is every bit as protected and subsidized as any Chinese brand.