I’m tired of the way things are and am actually excited for BYD. They build really great electric vehicles and I saw one video where it charged up just as fact as refueling gasoline would be

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    22 hours ago

    Are there any real advantages over a another nation’s EVs, besides cost? There’s the battery swapping infrastructure, but I kind of doubt they’d sink that level of money in, especially with a cap on possible car imports.

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      Their charging tech is insane. Like, 90% battery in the time it takes to use the bathroom kind of stuff. They’re also pushing hard into sodium battery tech that doesn’t catch fire, so their EVs are gonna be some of the safest in the world.

      I would need serious reassurances about the safety (privacy) of their onboard software if I was going to buy one, but their tech is bloody brilliant.

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      I think because China is subsidizing their EVs then that’s why it’s cheap and people will buy cheap.

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        That, and just lower cost of labour.

        It seems likely they’re going to ship the models with the best margin, though, and those are not the cheap ones.