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The US has had protectionist measures for its car market since forever.

That's why the US car market is so 'unique' and American brands struggle in foreign markets.

Japanese cars came in in the 70s and almost killed the US market. The Big Five became the Big Three (GM, Ford, Chrysler) and learned how to make cars again.

They then squandered that and are back where they were in the 70s, or worse.

> BYD sold about 3 million EVs.

Why is their stock price flat tho?

Lots of competition from other good car companies. I just used BYD because they are the biggest single EV company; they aren't a majority of EV production though.

> Last year Tesla sold 1MM cars in us+China and another 150K in Europe.

... Wait, really, it was that low?! VW AG sold about a million BEVs last year; at this point Tesla may actually be in third place (or even fourth, depending on what Geely's up to these days).