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This is a bit of an aside, but why does everyone assume, if not for the sanctions, BYD would eat Western manufacturers alive? I for one, don't like to engage in anti-China hysteria, but having had experience with Chinese products, their quality and reliablity is a hit and miss. How would you know, that they didn't cheap out on caps in inverters, and they won't break down after a decade/200k km?

Also their cars are build like modern consumer electronics, welded/glued together at every opportunity.

Take a look at this video where a guy tries to pry apart a BYD battery pack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPTefsqNGI4

I guess BYD's strategy of world domination involves a high degree of automation, so they can make their cars in countries without a large pool of free workers/high wages, that's why they're made like this.

And here in Europe, they're not even that much cheaper, before tariffs. A Seal costs almost as much as a Model 3.




https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842394 ("HN: China's Top Carmaker BYD Dominates Foreign Rivals with $14k Plug-In Hybrid")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41841960 ("HN: VW, BMW and Mercedes Are Getting Left in the Dust by China's EVs")




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