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> BYD can sell a $14k EV in one market

Outside of the US, are there any markets BYD can't sell that car into? The Dolphin is currently listing at well under €20k here in Spain, which means its only real competition is the equivalently incredibly cheap Dacia Spring

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Dacia Spring is also made in China.

I'm sure, but the Dacia brand as whole has been here for a long time, so they should have a reputational advantage over a newcomer like BYD. The Sandero compact SUV in particular is extremely popular (in a large part due to how cheap it is)

Europe isn't good example either as it's heavily tarriffed

That makes it even worse for european automakers, if they cannot compete even with a heavily tariffed BYD

We don't have materials, we don't have energy.

Not sure how are we supposed to thrive in a world where cars are very simple and our know-how is borderline useless.

Imho cars are a dead race-to-the-bottom business, that was true in ICE world, that will be even more true in the electrified/autonomous driving one.

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