"BUT THE CHINESE WILL SPY ON US"
Have you seen what the Yanks have been up to?
At least the Chinese cars are inexpensive
It's pragmatism, try it out some time
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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I wonder if us Yanks can come over the border and buy some too? I want a byd π
"BUT THE CHINESE WILL SPY ON US"
Have you seen what the Yanks have been up to?
I would rather have neither be using my property to spy on me.
Agreed - my point is that if both are "not great", except one is cheaper....
China wins
China uses slavery and genocide to get ahead economically. Maybe we should be avoiding both.
Then why are we not investing in making it ourselves?
If any car manufacturer thought it was profitable it would happen.
if we waited for things to be profitable before making them we wouldn't have the roads for these cars to drive on
You're conflating infrastructure with consumer goods. Ask Stellantis how well the Dodge Charger EV is going (less than 2,000 units sold).
Because stellantis makes shitty vehicles in general.
Oh no, they will watch me driving back and forth to work every day.
Jesus fuck, this is the shit I heard back around 2006 wrt Facebook.
Should BYD vehicles be allowed on military bases, or carrying federal employees?
the yanks already do
Canadians buy 2M vehicles a year. This deal only allows in 50,000.
When Xpeng wanted to sell in EU, they had to assemble the cars in Austria with Canada's Magna.
So why is Magna making Chinese EVs in Austria, but not in Canada?
50000 on year one. More later
Assembled in Australis is like saying your ikea furniture was manufactured in your living room.
According to Statistics Canada, 264,000 EV's were sold in 2024.
50,000 of those potentially being Chinese EVs is not a small percentage. That is a significant chunk of our yearly EV sales.
cause EU is better at negotiating I guess
As an addition, BYD has laready been used slave labour not only in its domestic factories but also abroad such as in Hungary and Brazil.
For this reason, Brazil puts China's BYD on list of shame for workers' past slavery-like conditions.
Brazil has put China's BYD on a βregistry of employers who have subjected workers to conditions similar to slavery, after a 2024 scandal in which Chinese workers were said to have been victims of human trafficking and abusive contracts.
The list, published by Brazil's Labor Ministry, carries further reputational risk βfor the automaker in its biggest market after China.
I don't understand why such a company is allowed to sell its products.
Because a bunch of 'Canadians' in high places are about to make some money.
@Scotty@scribe.disroot.org posting this from a smartphone made in a foxconn factory with suicide nets.
I hope that Stellantis will start manufacturing the EVs here.
Stellantis makes the incredibly terrible Dodge Charger in Ontario. No one is buying them. Stellantis has no idea how to make cars.
That will never happen. There's no business case for it.
The Dodge Charger EV is made in Ontario.
Recent numbers say 1,947 Dodge Charger EV's were sold. BYD sold 431K+. Why would BYD build a manufacturing plant in Canada?
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-now-sells-way-more-electric-chargers-than-gas-powered-ones/