Comment by hn_submit

13 hours ago

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.