| ...
| BYD, which stands for "Build Your Dreams," is essentially
| banned from American roads by tariffs, imposed to protect
| U.S. automakers, that double the price of imported Chinese
| plug-ins. Erecting tariff walls may buy the domestic auto
| industry some time, but it ultimately won't insulate
| American manufacturers from BYD or the bigger threat that
| it represents.
|
| The company embodies a Chinese industrial model that is
| leaving America in the dust. This model, which combines
| government financial support, methodical long-term planning
| and aggressive innovation, has enabled China to achieve
| global dominance in a range of high-tech industries, from
| batteries to robotics to drones. Losing those markets to
| Chinese companies was bad enough. If the same happens in
| auto manufacturing, the impact would be far worse for
| America because of the industry's size and its economic,
| political and strategic importance.
|
| Those days are long gone. I've driven nearly every BYD
| model, and they are now as good as other top brands like
| Tesla in terms of design, features, advanced technologies
| and overall quality. The company's Blade battery is among
| the safest and most cost-efficient in the world, so good
| that Toyota and Tesla have used it in some of their cars.
| Most worrying for its competitors, BYDs are affordable: Its
| least expensive models sell in China for under $10,000, a
| third of the price of the most affordable electric vehicles
| available in the U.S. market.
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/opinion/byd-china-car-ev.html>
--bks
On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 10:37:04 -0400 (EDT), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| ...
| BYD, which stands for "Build Your Dreams," is essentially
| banned from American roads by tariffs, imposed to protect
| U.S. automakers, that double the price of imported Chinese
| plug-ins. Erecting tariff walls may buy the domestic auto
| industry some time, but it ultimately won't insulate
| American manufacturers from BYD or the bigger threat that
| it represents.
|
| The company embodies a Chinese industrial model that is
| leaving America in the dust. This model, which combines
| government financial support, methodical long-term planning
| and aggressive innovation, has enabled China to achieve
| global dominance in a range of high-tech industries, from
| batteries to robotics to drones. Losing those markets to
| Chinese companies was bad enough. If the same happens in
| auto manufacturing, the impact would be far worse for
| America because of the industry's size and its economic,
| political and strategic importance.
|
| Those days are long gone. I've driven nearly every BYD
| model, and they are now as good as other top brands like
| Tesla in terms of design, features, advanced technologies
| and overall quality. The company's Blade battery is among
| the safest and most cost-efficient in the world, so good
| that Toyota and Tesla have used it in some of their cars.
| Most worrying for its competitors, BYDs are affordable: Its
| least expensive models sell in China for under $10,000, a
| third of the price of the most affordable electric vehicles
| available in the U.S. market.
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/opinion/byd-china-car-ev.html>
--bks
Leave it to the NYT to support governent owned production of cars.
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