Nothing cheaply made about BYD.
That's the part that makes me have no sympathy whatsoever with the traditional manufacturers. They have tax breaks for the factories, most of the stuff is also made in the same places, if they had invested in automation and integration could they be in the same place? I don't like protectionism laws when they only enable customer exploitation.
Another dinosaur dug up in Canada.
I think Canada is too cold for electric vehicles, especially those with lithium iron phosphate batteries, as they have poor cold-weather performance.
Since Norway has almost total adoption, that has been proven to be an annoyance, but not really a problem.
LOL, so North American companies can expand everywhere, but China cannot? Come on Doug? Don't you believe in free market capitalism?
as a citizen of ontario, corrupt AF Doug ford needs to shut the fuck up. he had his chance to revitalize the car industry in ontario and he failed to do so. and even if he did it would be for gas vehicles which his "donors" all bribe him to endorse.
I would argue Byd is better than Ford by leagues.
So the option is cheap made US cars?
'Made in China' used to be a joke about poorly made, mass-manufactured products. It's not anymore. My Sealion 7 has better build quality than any Ford I've been in lately. And half the parts in any car brand are made in China these days. Wankers like this need to stop living in the past.
Don't be fooled, BYD also gets/has had a heap of CCP funding to get them to where they are today. That is China's model, find industries, massively invest in them and subsidise the companies to complete globally. It's not hard and it's not protectionism specifically, it's just amazing other countries don't do this as much.
Dude why are you on with this? What part did I said that byd had no help? The thing is the traditional manufacturers slept while Tesla failed around and now are crying. Never said that byd had no help, or that china doesn't do this. I said that I don't care about protection laws if they are at the cost of the customers, because that's what has been happening.
The CCP has started pulling back on the subsidies for EVs now. They had incentives before to encourage more EV manufacturers and promote competition. But now they are more focussed on getting the top ones to strengthen their business. Less and less subsidies for them now. The manufacturers have to make a profit on their own or go down.
Correct lol.
Good thing sodium ion batteries are starting to take off.
Yea, I know they're transitioning to self sustaining companies, but I doubt that means no funding.
They didn't even just sleep, GM created an electric car, realised it didn't need servicing so they were going to lose money in aftermarket parts sales, and literally chased down and scrapped every last one of the 200 prototypes.
I'm not clicking a news article from "eletric-vehicles.com"
Sodium-ion batteries are used in trucks and energy storage, not in passenger cars because their energy density is too low. If you are Canadian, you should try to buy ternary lithium batteries.
Come to USA
Doug Boomer Ford has no understanding how anything works. How is he a Premier? Total mayor vibes
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