The Real Reason The U.S. Doesn’t Want Chinese EVs
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Americans pay more for EVs than almost every other country in the world. This video delves into the lack of affordable electric vehicles (EVs) in the U.S., contrasts it with more economical options in countries like Mexico and Costa Rica, and explores historical protectionist measures that have shaped today’s market.
Learn about global players like BYD and the challenges of competing in a market dominated by tariffs and trade policies, highlighting the broader consequences of such economic strategies.
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Subsidies are the reason the production cost are so low
It's actually Political Corruption & Corporate Greed! 😫
Dont forget the same subsedies were given to Tesla too but their price never came down.
One German thinker was right
Why don't we want them? Uhhh have you SEEN how many BYD cars spontaneously combust from faulty batteries?
At $16k for a new car in Costa Rica, that’s 1.7 times the countries average annual salary for a car where as a $40k tesla in the us is only about 0.7 times the US annual salary so I’d rather have that
One should know that Tesla got way more subsidies from the US government than any Chinese car company got from the Chinese government.
EVs are dog-doo
As always Chinese bot accounts flooding comments with their useless propaganda… How can you compete with communist state funded products? Countless EV brands got bailed from bankrupcy by Chinese state multiple times. Do you expect US to bend over and spread their cheeks so state backed Chinese brands could devour US local prroduction without breaking a sweat? On top of that do you expect US to give tax credits to fund this foreign economic attack? Free trade is only done with a fair market and communist China is not a fair market free trade country. Also everyone seems to forget US established global trade with their navy and every other country benefited from it stop with the China suckling bs US hate.
I know Tesla cars phone home. I would be surprised if byd cars didn't. So. There likely is a National security program problem.
Rest world wanna china made car's
Cars are way too expensive in US and haven't come back down since Covid. I don't plan on buying a new car for as long as possible.
Wait until China does the same with planes
I don't understand what the problem is…if China is subsidizing their auto industry ti undercut US car makers its perfectly responsible to add tarriffs to restore the balance
So, we will just lose market share everywhere else in the world to protect our home base.
Even worse in Australia, hardly any choice with ev, very high import costs,
Nissan x honda = Nonda or hissan or hissonda or Hondhiss.
😂😂😂
so true
Honestly, I'm not interested in EVs at all. I watched the video just because the guy is super cute. I only wish it were somehow relevant to EVs if he took off his shirt.
MG ZS EV is made in china
If you never heard about tarrifs, you have no idea what you are talking about .
Us dont want a car sending all data to china buddy , national security
Free trade, open the door
Chinese labour is much more expensive than a lot of countries nowadays. Saying China has cheap labour is like saying America has culture.
it only means that the rest of the world advances, while America stays 1-2 decades behind in EV technology.
America just pays a lot more for less technology.
Which is fine, as 96% of the world is not America.
America is the worlds largest oil producer. I oil companies play a huge part in keeping EVs out.
they want to keep their profits, subsidies, and political influence.
The BYD price outside China is not that competitive, I am from Mauritius, they are milking the market . . . The price is in Mauritian Rupees
-> Dolphin Standard -> Rs 1,350,000 -> USD 29,504.41
-> Dolphin Extend -> Rs 1,550,000 -> USD 33,875.44
-> ATT0 3 Stanard -> Rs 2,095,000 -> USD 45,786.48
-> ATTO3 Extend -> Rs 2,400,000 -> USD 52,452.29
-> SEAL RWD -> Rs 2,950,000 -> USD 64,472.60
-> SEAL AWD -> Rs 3,300,000 -> USD 72,121.90
I don't see these prices from a new entrant in car manufacturing reasonable, they have a lot of experience in cells and battery packs though!
nothing wrong about protecting your own industry.
Auto worker's union is very powerful.
This are untested and unregulated car brands!
Don't crash a BYD. Airbags don't deploy and catch on fire easily.
To us car manufacturers Sayounara Sayounara Sayounara !
to avoid competetion in the market first place,
why is only japanese and south korean flags are coloured black and white? @3:05 any explanation?
The reason China doesn't want tesla cars with cameras is national security security risks.
At 0:47 Sono never produced any car
US has great advantages over China. Firstly scientists in US can change their gender at any time! This is something no Chinese scientistscan do!
Individual engineers in US are addressed as they/them, indicating that one person can be more than one gender.
New generation engineers and scientists in US graduating from ivy leagues colleges need not have any knowledge of Maths, as math is declared as racist by the deans of these Ivy universities!
Future scientists from US are well versed in Equity which is vastly superior to Chinese meritocracy!
这么多年，以前的美国梦，变成了美国笑话。世界第一大国居然害怕和发展中国家在产品上进行较量，而选择了地方保护主义。中国在加入wto的时候面临着各行各业的外来企业竞争，有的行业甚至能在根本上把中国本土产业碾碎，但是当时的中国没有退缩，而是奋起直追，直到超越对手。反观现在的美国，我们看到的是一个好笑的懦夫，他们甚至不敢正面的和中国产品有一次公平的对决。
The video should have read "The Real Reason the U.S. Government doesn't want Chinese EVs". People I meet who are aware of the $11,500 Chinese EV often say that they would buy one for local driving.
USA just cannot compete with the superiority of Chinese market.
They are completely outmatched and outclassed, and are now trying their hardest to keep them out. As a result the US consumer is suffering.
US also subsidised Detroit, but GM used the money to push up their stock price and pay shareholders.
ask the government to open their market publicly like they shout out loud to other countries to make unfair deal.. let the public choose why they want, is n't that the meaning of freedom? i bet US wont brave enough to allow chinese EV in
The real reason should be that the Chinese EV's are garbage. Poorly designed, they fall apart, always catch fire and I could go on. Plus all Chinese EV's are heavily subsidized ($10,000 or more) by the CCP. You won't be able to find parts for them as the Chinese EV companies are going out of business. If you bothered to monitor the Chinese market you would know this. Chinese vehicles are heavily subsidized in order to be so cheap. BYD means Burn Your Dreams since they catch fire so much.
Why are black people such simps for China? The real reason is that Chinese EVs don't pass road safety requirements in the USA.