Comment by guid4

This will likely be downvoted, but my opinion is that the "success" of BYD (and other chinese EVs) in the West is a massive failure of policy. We don't allow Huwawei (etc), so why are we permitting Chinese cars?

Money spent on BYD is money flowing out, eventually, to china, and not flowing into the local or near-local economy. Local garages are shutting due to lack of demand, forecourts are closing, sales jobs are closing, far less money is spent on maintenance (which supports local jobs and local supply chains), less consumables are replaced, factories are shutting, and the entire supply chain for these cars is outside the west.

And all of this is being celebrated as "green" or low carbon - it is not, whatsoever, anything of the sort.

And yet people seem to be buying these things in their droves, and then also complaining that economic times are tough.

The painful truth is the west has the ability to replace these cars, but has looked on by as China came in and cleaned up, and didn't do anything about it.

These cars should be subject to 1000% import tax, and eventually banned outright.