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100% this. I don't think Americans in general are aware of what the current state of Chinese cars (EV and gas) is like right now since they're not in our market. It's worth checking out some YouTube videos, this guys channel is pretty good for Chinese EVs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQPwlHixWo

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That BYD U8 is $150k. Who can afford that shit?

That's like knocking Toyota affordability because the Lexus LS whatever is >$100k.

BYD has $10k cars and >$150k cars

If approximately half the cost of an EV is the battery pack I'm terrified by the prospect of a $10k car...

Yea I do want to know what the costing on this is. It's a bit hard to figure for BYD because:

(a) there's unknown government subsidies going on, and

(b) they mine and refine their own lithium and make their own batteries (also make Tesla's batteries too, I think). So their battery cost is... unusually low

Nobody, unfortunately Chinese vehicles are not sold in the US of A. Which is too bad, we need the competition.

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