Put this in the USMCA (CUSMA) elimination/negotiation file. Europe has already been the visible example of what happens when you open your market to low price Chinese EVs.
With the recent agreement by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Chinese auto manufacturers are now rushing to establish the dealerships, before the Beijing-Canada deal becomes an issue in the USMCA negotiation.
China is NOT going into Canada because they foresee a great market of Snow Mexicans purchasing their low price EVs. They are going into Canada as a proactive measure to establish a North American footprint with an eye toward the USA.
(VIA MSM) – BYD and Chery are accelerating plans to establish a dealership network in Canada after the country introduced a quota allowing tens of thousands of Chinese-made EVs to enter at reduced tariffs. The rollout will begin in Toronto before expanding to other major cities, with BYD targeting about 20 dealerships in its first year. This marks a significant new front in North American EV competition, as Chinese automakers seek growth outside the U.S., where prohibitive tariffs keep them out.
Canada’s updated trade policy allows 24,500 Chinese-made EVs annually at a reduced 6.1% duty, giving BYD and Chery a rare North American entry point. This follows China’s surge to become the world’s top vehicle exporter, with similar pushes into Mexico, Europe, and Latin America. The quota’s scale is modest but strategically valuable for testing market response and building brand awareness.
The companies will launch in Toronto before moving into Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary. BYD aims for around 20 dealerships in its first year, using consultants and internal teams to secure prime sites. While the network could strengthen visibility in key urban markets, experts warn the quota’s limited volume may test the viability of multiple outlets.
With U.S. tariffs exceeding 100% effectively barring entry, Canada offers Chinese automakers a platform to establish presence, gauge consumer interest, and potentially influence future trade talks. Similar strategies have been used in Europe, where Chinese EV makers have gained ground despite strong local competition. Success in Canada could pave the way for local assembly or increased quotas. (read more)
I was watching My Kitchen Rules, New Zealand recently… and the cars being used to get around by the contestants and hosts were all BYD’s. So, apparently, they are in NZ, which means they are likely already in Australia. I heard they are also cheap to buy.
I only skimmed the article above but I did read somewhere and a few months ago, sorry no link, that the cheap chinese EV’s were also a way to get around ‘carbon credits’….or trade carbon credits.
Everything made in China, has proven to be junk with planned obsolescence…why would these cars be any different?
My Ford proudly has 208,338 miles….
And yes, admittedly, occasionally “Found on the Road Dead”…
Aggiegirl methinks you read Sundance!!!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/?s=Europe+EV+Credits+China
I knew I read it somewhere but could not remember where, LOL…the intricacies of trade deals are way over my head, but some things stick!
In my ‘hood, there was a parking lot with 8 EV chargers and only one of them in use.
And I had gotten a ride in a Ford EV…it was a very flimsy vehicle…with little ‘get up and go’…
How are they going to react in the dead of winter?
In SoCal if the winter has a few super cold days- moms are either driving the husbands GMC’s or they put electric blankets on the motor area of the electric car and try to charge it that way 😂😂
They will react dead of winter. Batteries do poorly in the ultra bitter cold. Then again, when you jump them you can hardly burn up the starter when it’s that cold.
Dead
Dead as a door nail.
They don’t. In a bad winter’s interstate delay (where the USPS semi-slid into the median on the way to the St. Paul Regional Distr Center carousel-from-hell), they are carrion on the road unless the occupants want to freeze.
Bingo.
New Zealand and Canada are two different worlds, so it remains to be seen how the chinese models will handle deep winter conditions.
Martin Armstrong also mentioned it in one of his blog posts.
Had a Ford Expedition that got 240,00 miles. Car did not owe ma a dime
Aggiegirl, my 26 year old Chevy Silverado pickup is still going strong. Bought it 20 years ago for $5,200.
Not confident a BYD
will last that long. I
wish you 250,00 miles.
TY, Mine is a 2012…
And I wish the Silverado a long life, too!
😎
In addition to my 2013 Silverado, I neglected to mention the 1975 Ford F150 Ranger I inherited from my father-in-law, who was the original owner. Don’t trust the odometer so I don’t know how many miles are on it. He drove it every day until he retired. It runs, needs some work after sitting, but *no foreign electronic crap* is in it!
I have a 2002 model, still going strong after 200,000 miles.
My 2013 Silverado has over 260K miles…I admit they’re not all mine…but still going strong.
My 1994 Chevy K1500 4wd has 284,00 and still as strong as ever. Had to replace brake master cylinder and water pump at 230,00 . That is all besides tires and wipers.
My 2003′ Dodge RAM 3500, Cummins 5.9 liter diesel paired with a 6 speed manual tranny has 427,000 miles on her. She is just now getting broken in!
YESSS!
Now that’s a truck!
I have a 2005 Tahoe “Fred” with 90,400 miles on it. He will out live me.
I bought my Silverado 4X4 new in ‘02. She (Lucille) has 193k under her wheels and no problems whatsoever. I’ll keep her until the wheels fall off and then she’ll be yard art. 😉
And who knows what technology is in these Chinese made vehicles and what is spied upon or sent back to China.
“We’re sorry, your criticism on the CCP has rendered your vehicle inoperable. When you accumulate enough positive social points we may reactivate it.”
An “invisible collar”.
To diminish us to serfdom, or worse.
I have a Ford Ranger with 186,500 miles…proudly sayin’.
2010 Expy. Just went over 200,000 miles this week. Pulled our travel trailer down to Fl. 2 weeks ago. (I do say a number of prayers when towing) 😉
” Fix Or Repair Daily” 😄😉
Or, Ford = Found on road dead,
Driver Returns On Foot 😉
Flip Over, Read Directions
At least they are no longer Fix or Repair Daily.
My Ohio made 2012 Honda Accord is at 130K miles with no problems that require replacement, much as I would like something new and fancy. At 72 and driving around 5K miles a year, it’s likely it will be my last car unless I get in an accident.
I have no desire to buy some Chinese electric crap car.
Ditto! My 2003 Honda Accord coupe, 5-speed standard shift has 211,000 miles and going strong. Have only had to do maintenance and replace the worn clutch . Another advantage to an older car is the lack of expensive to repair computerized features. Honda ceased making the Accord in the coupe or with a stick shift.
Fix Or Repair Daily
and
Fast On Race Day
First On Race Day
My 2000 year Crown Vic has 200,000+ miles with basic maintenance and a manifold replacement. The VIC is our beach car (sand) and we use it to take our recycles to the transfer station 55 miles away. 4 door with a huge trunk, the old leather seats are worn and the glued-on rear view mirror keeps falling off…bill
A little Duct Tape and bailing wire will keep that rear view mirror on..lolol😉
2004 Lincoln Town Car here, 88k miles….had 66k in 2024 when we got it. Daily to work & back(52 miles total).
My 1999 Dodge Durango has 430,000 miles on it–equivalent to 19 times around the world–and is still going strong (except for dead air conditioning). Still lovin’ it.
They do it intentionally. They want to enrich Godless China. Count on it!
“planned obsolescence”
That’s in addition to all of the already unplanned obsolescence.
At least no longer Fix Or Repair Daily
Pretending.
SD has taught us much by simply teaching us to see when Pretending rules the day.
Pretending has gotten a lot of people killed, maimed, enslaved, drug-ravaged, raped. Look at the cartels/NGOs that trafficked in modern slavery.
As I understand it, China is subsidizing the cars tremendously (and getting their money back from carbon credits from other countries that import them).
The cars are so inexpensive to buy, that they are cheaper than the sum of their parts, and its hard to insure them.
It sounds like China is “dumping ” these cars and not really at a loss. The plan is to undercut and damage the sales /ecosystem of all other manufacturers.
Will carbon credits continue to have value? Who is the “bank” that keeps records? What is the cost of not having carbon credits? Who decides? Anyone have a quick reference?
About 15 of the Commie States of the US have cap and trade program. I think auto manufactures basically have a carbon budget, it they go over, they have to buy offsets from a (mostly) emissions free company like Tesla. I imagine all this paperwork is handled by the companies who have to report to the states. In 2024 30% of Tesla’s revenue came from this scheme.
Al Gore made his fortune in this grift.
One thing would be nice. The costs of buying a new car in the USA are becoming pretty ridiculous. $40,000 and up for many SUV models and trucks. Maybe some competition of they ever were brought into the USA will get these prices to come down a bit? Family cars now are like a house payment on monthly bills and it’s pretty hard for most Americans to pay cash for one.
It amazes me that these new cars are selling to very many people. The debt load on getting one must be high. Then add on higher insurance costs and you have a very large expense if middle class families want a certain type and brand of car. I can’t figure out how these auto companies are making much money or selling very many cars.
ford and GMC makes more money lending credit than selling vehicles. this has been the case for nearly 20 years, perhaps longer.
I remember doing the drill down.
also like “developers”, there are complex tax rules that allow major manufacturers to write down losses, owing virtually no money to the IRS. as well, they of course pass ON the cost of tax to buyers. So essentially, they actually MAKE money, not just save money, through these complex tax structured schemes.
and then you have the direct government intervention…not a free market. fact is, you and me, our tax money is being used to lend mostly free, to major manufacturers, and not just the big two, to expand and upgrade facilities. This is free money for the manufacturers. This significantly reduces overhead costs.
and major manufacturers have energy deals with utilities to drastically reduce cost of power for their facilities. They get rates from utilities are deep discounts compared to residential and ordinary small business.
so basically, car manufacturers in the US (not unlike all major car makers around the world to be clear) have much lower operating costs that a typical business that you might want to operate.
in 2025, GMC paid just 338 million in taxes. almost 83 percent less than the average. Most of this is the result of deferring taxes, kicking the can down the road. IRS allows this. You? lol…think again. You can defer SOME taxes and you may write off some expenses, but no where near 83 percent.
in the big long view, automakers pay somewhere between 2 and 5 percent tax on average.
and sales tax, and all the other fees and taxes for sales…that is all passed along to buyers.
so basically, they don’t pay any tax. In fact, the way it is structured, they MAKE money, not merely save money on these tax schemes.
EV is no different. About 30 percent of all profit from Tesla is made from “incentives”, tax structures specific to “new green deal”, and also carbon credits. In addition, Tesla has the same tax schemes as all the majors.
byd will beat the hide off of every single US auto manufacturer, because not only is it a vasly lower cost vehicle, but because the financing is not dependent upon the US government interventions. It comes from china directly and this means, ironically, things like carbon credits, pass through tax, etc are not as easily regulated from the US government. But I will make a prediction, an easy one: Should the US allow byd and gelly enter the US, there will be conditions that they build them here, with US workers and the Government will attach the regulatory overhead, up to and including safety enforcement rules and design, and of course the unions will enter the picture. So if anyone thinks to believe that BYD and gelly are going to out complete the traditional US automanufacturers, you need to grasp that will never be allowed to happen. What may occur is that either the costs of these Chinese golf carts are pressured much higher, OR as with tik tok forced to transfer ownership to a US company. In either case, the notion of buying a 20K chinese golf cart is about as realistic as buying a 30K Tesla that was promised but was also never delivered. There are forces well beyond manufacturing and simple supply and demand/competition that print the price tags.
Regardless, the US would really be very stupid to allow Chinese ev’s to be sold here, even if manufacturing and business transfer of ownership was forced. and the reasons are simple.
it is not in the best interests of big American oil and the jobs and the reliable energy that industry provides to not only our domestic requirements (a national security foundation), but also to the energy leverage and market making that the US must continue to have control over through out the world. A good example of this are two wars going on now. These ARE energy wars. A world involving EV’s dominating the economy and electrification changes the geo political and not just the economic balance.
God Bless America
I think most ‘new cars’ are leased.
My 2002 F150’s odometer is broken, but I think it has near 160,000 miles on it. I love it and plan to keep it for the rest of my life, barring accidents.
Plenty in Australia. Gonna be a lot of buyers remorse..
I was in Sri Lanka several months back. The Chinese electric BYD cars are everywhere there. They are readily affordable for people who don’t make a lot of money. I will tell you that they don’t look bad at all. This is going to be a problem for all Western automakers because China is selling them everywhere in most countries all over the world. AND, people are buying them. If they get into Canada and Mexico, US auto makers are in for a battle.
They almost certainly will turn out to be complete trash – disposable junk – and possibly trojan horses (trojan cars). Imagine the CCP shutting them all down at once with the flick of a widely broadcast RF transmission – if enough of these are on the roads the gridlock it would create would be devastating.
The CCP could take them over remotely and crash them into people, things, etc. turning them into weapons of mass destruction. Any number of very bad things could occur. We’ve got to stop these things from entering our hemisphere.
CCP spyware.
Where are they going to charge these cars up there? Damn near most of Canada is even more rural than the US and a whole lot colder.
If you think the EVs were a flop here, wait till they try this up there.
This looks more like deal making between two crooks than it does actually solving problems and responding to customer demand for vehicles.
Maybe Byd’s don’t need charging, you just put in a fresh set of Chinese alkaline batteries from Temu. 😆
My goodness!!! That’s funny🤣🤣
“Charging a lithium battery below freezing can cause permanent damage. Lithium plates onto the anode instead of intercalating, a process called lithium plating. This reduces capacity and creates internal short-circuit risks.”
https://voltagebasics.com/lithium-battery-charging-temperature-safety-limits-explained/
And I get the impression those eV batteries do not like the cold…
No battery “likes” cold even our old trusted reliable lead acid. There is no battery chemistry that can even approach the ruddedness including environmental that our old friend can. Unfortunately lead is quite heavy and sulfuric acid quite toxic. Ideal as starter energy storage but highly inefficient as main propulsion sources.
I have long contended that we do not have a battery solution that comes even close to our modern internal combustion engine. In the Spacecraft business we often felt like the reason we flew missions was the “care and feeding of the battery”! Ask any Power Lead or Power Subsystem Engineer and he/she will tell you, “No power no science!” We maintained our battery temperature between +5 and +20 C for any battery chemistry Nickel Cadmium, Nickel Hydrogen or Lithium Ion.
And don’t forget you will be replacing that battery somewhere around 100,000 miles, maybe sooner in very cold or very hot areas. Think about the cost of replacing an engine in a normal car that’s about the cost of a new EV battery. My fear is my Canadian Brothers and Sisters are going to get screwed by this sudden love affair between the Canadian and Chinese governments.
Carney portraying himself as a “playa” on the global stage. 😂
Carney so wants to be “Queen”.
China already has a footprint in the U.S. auto industry.
They make some Buick models and Lincoln’s.
Plus the fact that Many manufacturers have massive “Testing or Proving” grounds in China which should not be allowed.
Joint ventures my ass and the strong arm needs to deal with everything Canadian or access to this country.
Many years ago, I explained to my children that “Bently built beautiful and very expensive cars that only the wealthy could afford but when you look at Walmart, who became a behemoth sold their products to the less fortunate.”
Unfortunately, it’s just the way things are these days. I’m not in favor of BYD’s and the Carbon Credit scam but you got to hand it to them, like it or not.
WMT–one other reason TPTB want the illegals here…especially if they have kids, setting up a household with kids is a venture that is not for financial cowards…the expense is astronomical from linens and dishes to kids and toys and school needs, to dad’s tools etc…
i have often ranted on the many expenses from lawn care to house care, furniture and toys etc…Walmart also makes that very affordable.
” you got to hand it to them”…. but they don’t stop there. They take off the whole arm..
Will you show yourself out? 😂🤣🥰
Yes mam.. I will.😂😂🥰🥰
A large part of me wants to see a ban on electric vehicles.
Resist the urge to ban things you don’t personally like. That’s a path to all the worst ideologies.
I am not wanting a ban just because I don’t like them; I am opposed to EVs because of all the negative effects of them on society:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/why_would_anyone_believe_these_people_can_control_temperatures_sea_levels_and_storm_activity_forever.html
A recent fire here at the lake. Two cars in the garage burned into near ashes. Both electric. Fire Dept had to sit & watch.
Don’t ban EV’s. Ban any product that producing it creates the amount of environmental toxicity similar to those related to the production of EV’s.
“Resist the urge to ban things you don’t personally like.”
Yes! That’s excellent advice. I do not want to see them banned, as they do provide a test bed for technology development, and that’s a good thing. What I would like to see terminated, however, is the financial subsidies these manufacturers have. Subsidies distort a technology to the point where people mistakenly think the tech is better than it truly is. In the long run that hurts both the technology and those that wished to use it. It’s one thing to promote and subsidize basic research and development, but once something is deemed ready for public consumption, and the competition of commerce, it should be allowed to sink or swim on its own merits.
Agree. Me too. Unless they’re charged exclusively from the owner’s self contained solar powered recharging station. No drain on the public grid.
And a ban on all AI facilities that don’t have their OWN self financed and constructed power generating plant. NO drain on the public grid.
As soon as there is an EV flatbed to tow a disabled EV to a repair shop powered by solar, where EV’s are charged by solar and the mechanics drive EV’s and live off the grid, I’ll ponder an EV. It’s a grand farce of epic proportions, EV’s, solar, windmills, “green”
I may try driving across Canada in EV by Chinese!!
If a picture is worth a thousand words….
Looks like Carney has no idea he just became Xi’s bitch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
delete
Maybe he likes it.
Loss leaders on a very large scale.
Canada is the CCP’s Ukraine.
The Snow Mexicans are now Snow ChiComs.
Stop them at the border!
The way to stop them at the border would be to apply the tariff on Chinese goods when anyone tries to buy one in Canada and then bring it to the U.S. to be registered and licensed. This business about going around the tariffs just because it was sent somewhere else and originally purchased there needs to stop. If a Canadian wants to buy one and drive it around the U.S. and return home with it, then fine. But to buy it north of the border and then sell it or register it south of the border should mean the tariff on Chinese goods will be applied at that point.
I’d prefer they not be permitted inside the US period, but I’ve been called stupid more than once.
Oh, no, not stupid at all. You have the right idea. I was just providing a mechanism to achieve it.
I think in reality almost no Canadian is going to try to drive one of those around the U.S. It isn’t easy to drive any EV around like a tourist going from state to state over long distances. You only get so far and then have to spend many hours recharging, if you can find a charger in the first place. Not like just swinging into a gas station and filling it up in a few minutes. That’s long been known. Just make it hard for China to evade the tariff and those EVs won’t even be available to drive locally because no one will buy one.
👍
Makes sense now that EV demand, at least in the US, is starting to actually align with supply and demand without the subsidies. Canada will find the CCP will be submitting their butchers bill to Carney when Trump completes his Mexican and South American trade deals without Canadian participation.
“Build Your Dreams” (BYD) cars have been sold for years (gas fueled) in South and Central America. Cheap in price and quality. Popular.
Wait’ll Trump declares Mexico a terrorist state.
They know that PDJT will only be president for 3 more years. Carney is their scamming 3rd rate car salesman
I wonder what the parts availability and service will be like.
Pretty much the same as anything else Americans purchase if it’s not made in America.
Slow boat from Chyna.
When it comes to thinking about Canada, and Canadians, looking down the road, Big Ugly comes to mind.
Bessie,
I agree, but in the near term what we need from Canada is their forest products. Our forest product industry has been decimated over the last 35 years. The US currently cannot supply our needs. It will take at least 2-3 years to ramp up, and you know the environmental whackos will be fighting any increased harvesting.
I read somewhere, maybe here, that PJDT is creating a project to rebuild out logging and sawmill industries, fast. One of the states mentioned was here, Wisconsin.
We have a lot of paper mills and a fair cut lumber industry, but is has shrunk over the last 30’ish years. I made a decent living when young felling a lot of trees.
Desperate Canada for business and corrupt Commie China to gain USA proximity will provide entertaining alliance for USA to watch.
Canada is also allowing chinese military into canada too.
Yep. Using Chinese military to guard oil and mining operations in Alberta I believe.
Guard them from WHAT and WHO?
Canada’s political leadership is getting scammed.
I wonder what they are getting out of it…..
PetroChina in northern Alberta/Oil sands Seen armed with large mag AK47s. China has invested $60 billion there. They are Canada’s largest buyer of oil moving through the trans mountain pipeline. Now they have shifted more to Canada for oil after Trump cutoff access to Venezuelan oil.
I thought the only pipeline out of Alberta was into the US. Canada prevented pipelines to the coast.
2024 expansion takes oil to canada west coast- Burnaby
as I understand it….
Silver mining?
I seem to recall trabants being shoved into trash dumpsters in W Germany after the Berlin Wall came down.
I’m sure the radical left will be protesting this move, given BYD’s appalling treatment of its workforce, keeping them in Brazil like literal slaves. On second thoughts, BYD are non-white and as slavery is historically dear to the ‘progressive’ heart, they’ll probably blame it on cultural differences and encourage people to buy them.
There’s another reason BYD are making this move, sales have dropped by 30% in the domestic market this year, and rising inventories and debt are looming over the corporation’s future plans for expansion.
May all of the CCP’s businesses shrink by 30% and may God release the world from the clutches of the evil CCP. Asking through Christ His son and our savior.
Well, thanks to The President, their energy bills will be higher and their pretensions at being a global player of equal status and power to the US have been exposed. If you think of China as a Potemkin country, protected by the globalist elite who try to kill off its competitors, then you’ll better understand the nature and strength of the threat that Team Trump pose to its artificially generated ‘economic miracle’. Hence the 24/7 barrage of relentlessly negative coverage toward this administration, from its paid influence assets and agents in the Western MSM, and more physical interventions by its core of mercenary protestors and their bands of ‘useful idiots’.
Anyone purchasing a car with software programmed by Chinese military – I mean companies – is in for a nasty surprise someday.
this should be the reason they are banned from even entering this country.
Who knows which brands and models have been programmed by the Red Chinese military.
Could be Japanese, Korean, any Asian vehicle. Then again who knows where the U.S. and Euro mfrs get their vehicle chips…..
First off, I wouldn’t buy an EV. The technology isn’t there to recharge in 10 minutes and range is troublesome. Besides, there is range anxiety when looking for a charging station when you start getting “low”. Drove a Chevy Bolt a few years ago asked the salesman what happens to the range when you have the A/C on. Might cut it by 10-20% but what is worse is when you use the heater, probably cut range by roughly double that. Makes sense because you are heating a wire instead of using the hot coolant from an ICE engine to heat the cabin. No thanks.
Not that Sundance’s view needs my help, but EVs don’t do well in the cold.
For sake of argument, lets say Tesla Lithium Ion Battery is extremely high quality — yet still catches fire if you look at it bad.
Knowing Chinese Quality Control is literally questionable at best (which is being EXTREMELY kind) can they be prohibited as a present a clear and present danger and require being banned from Crossing any US Boarder Point?
I’m still waiting for every underground garage in the US to ban EV’s due to fire hazard.
Questionable? More like nonexistent.
Do you remember a few years ago, there was a huge rash of house-fires caused by Chinese-made “hoverboards?” The lithium batteries would overheat and burn up the unit and anything close by.
Electric Vehicles use the same kind of lithium batteries, just much much bigger ones.
https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/Hoverboard-Safety-Alert.pdf
One word:
EMBARGO!
I hope whatever scheme each of them are up to blows up in their faces spectacularly. These are not nice people. Anyone that cheers the downfall of this country deserves the same misery they wish on us in spades. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
So China is betting the next president will be uniparty favored…
We’ll see about that.
Like a group of scared teenagers in a horror film, making poor choices, while hastily seeking safety.
They’ll never escape the commie chainsaw ghouls.
“If you’re a Canadian dealing with the Chinese, you make poor choices. It’s what you do!” 🙂
So Canada is willing to let the CCP spy vehicles right in through the front door.
These vehicles, if here in the US, need to be prohibited from being on any military installation!
Sundance you amaze us! Why the heck would any Canadians want to buy something else they can’t afford?
But dumbsh!t progressive “Americans” will because it costs less than the real thing from Tesla.
Looks like carney has sealed his fate. He made his bed at Waterloo. Buh-bye.
BYD and Gely are in México big time. Have been for 5 years. Junk in my opinion.
When things go wrong, can they be easily fixed?
We are going to have a wall built on our northern border as well.
If there cars are like everything else they make I’ll pass.
All the German auto makers are phasing out EVs.
What is BYD? Is it Build Your Dreams??
Yep. 😉
We are an Audi household. Haven’t bought an American (what is American?) car in 20 years.
My 2023 e-tron GT has about 50k miles, gets around 200 miles/charge – which is perfect for me getting around town – and the maintenance is a breeze. I know some of you fight it – but once you go electric, you never go back. Best driving experience I have ever had!
Just make sure the “brain” isn’t made in China. Just a word to the wise.
Audis are great until they’re not. If I hadn’t had the cadillac extended maintenance plan on mine, it would have cost more than the car was worth to replace the computer and half the electronics when they went bad last year. As it was, it took six months to repair, most of that time waiting for parts from the Fatherland.
You should house your family in the EU.
No Chinese evs in the US.
My daughter mistakenly rented an EV Jeep Wagoneer to drive from NC to TN. What should’ve been a 9 hour drive one way, turned into 15 hours. Let’s just say when she got back home, she filled her Honda up with gas and a smile on her face.
China knows that as soon as 2028 a Democrat will win the presidency and be back in the WH in January 2029. Then all the tariffs will be gone and they can export all their cheap EVs into the USA via Canada. It will 100% happen.
Ford and GM will end up merging to buy a few years of barely surviving before they go bankrupt and disappear completely.
The USA is done once Trump is gone and the Dems take power, kill the filibuster and pass everything they need to hold power indefinitely and destroy the USA as a power. Hate to say this but by 2045 the USA will be a vassal state of China. Darkness will descend upon the Earth for a long long time. The GOP establishment enabled this folks. May they inhabit Hades for centuries.
The cold weather will kill those things. The junkyards will fill up with them, once people find out you have to buy batteries constantly just like a flashlight and everything Chinese’s make is made to die at a future date. And they are dam ugly little bug mobiles.
Canada is a Globalist Pig!
As a female, when driving a long distance where it was sometimes necessary to stop at a filling station after dark, it was always a little scary. I would look for one that was well lit and in an acceptable part of town , then hurriedly fill up the tank in a matter of minutes. I can’t imagine having to find a charging station and then sit there while the car charged, after dark on an extended drive. No thanks. And I don’t want one charging in my garage. Ever.
Risa, you wouldn’t have to worry if you drove a Tesla. The Nav system tells you where and when to charge and most Tesla Superchargers are in well lit, friendly places.
I like to be in charge of where and when I get gas, thank you very much.
No thank you. I already deal with enough batteries needing recharging in my life. I don’t want a car I have to plug in.
This is going to be fun to watch.
Darn those lucky Canadians. Free EV’s. BYD and Chery get enough out of EU carbon credits they will give every citizen a free car. Oprah style.
Carneyda is asshoe. 😉
One glimmer of hope might be that once rebates ended in Q1 of 2025, EV sales here aren’t exactly exploding (unlike their batteries):
Q4 2024: 81k
Q1 2025: 37k
Q2 2025: 46k
Q3 2025: 47k
Q4 2025: 46k
I usually as people who drive an EV if they were told how many child slaves died mining the cobalt for their battery.
Now I’ll can also give a copy of Jan Jekielek’s book Killed to Order to anyone I know how buys a BYD.
Canada, which I’ve referred to as the stupidest country on the planet since the election of Trudeau, is such a pathetic embarrassment.
Don’t want anybody’s EV, certainly not chynah’s.
Thanks but hell to the no.
WOE, Canada…..
I used to love going to Montreal once a year when I was younger. I wouldn’t go north of the border now even if I won an all-expenses-paid trip. Canada like England…..is DONE.
When will tucker quarlson be moving to Chanada?
Chanada, the great Red North.
Globalist Carney doubles down on stupid yet again.
Yep. Carney once again proves himself to be a low IQ idiot. Oxymoron I think is what I just wrote. Imagine the cold in Canada with an EV!
Enjoyed so much reading all of the comments here about the vehicles Treeper’s are driving and their age and mileage.
I have a 2005 Toyota Prius built in Japan with “true milage unknown” as the odometer went kaput. (replaced gratis by Toyota). Years and years ago it went directly to the gas engine on start up when the night before it had gone below zero. Does Carney have any idea that is what happens with even a hybrid in the cold?
Think I have over 340,000 miles on the Prius. Replaced the main battery last year. I figure $5k is better than $50k or more for a new vehicle. It’s basically a tin can on wheels. Just like me. Har.
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Wasn’t Rivian a Chinese brand? It already failed.
Chery cars had asbestos in engine and exhaust gaskets
2012
Australia