Comment by ekr
12 hours ago
There's no new electric car for less than €17800, in the Netherlands at least. The BYD's start at around €20k. Only the Dacia Spring and the Leapmotor T03 are available under that price point. So if something was to be available for €15k and if it's highway capable, I'm sure it will sell decently well.
The BYD Seagull (a.k.a. Dolphin Surf) retails for €10K in Spain. The price difference elsewhere is most likely due to taxes and/or import duties.
No it doesn't, even if you stack every possible subsidy and discount for the bare-bones trim it would be more like €13K. Getting some of those subsidies involves scrapping your old car, takes over a year, and later gets taxed as income. The actual MSRP starts closer to €20K.
Just checked and that includes a government subsidy called Auto Plan+ which is close to 5k EUR. Adding to the actual price of 12.900 EUR for the car, it's still a comparable price point to the rest of Europe.