We can't buy Chinese EV's in Canada thanks to the 100% tariff imposed by the GoC. I wish they'd get rid of the tariff. Our cheapest EV option right now is the Fiat 500e and that starts at over $30,000.

Exactly, which is why I'm left scratching my head why the US wants to bring manufacturing back to the US. We're much better of growing the well-paying jobs where our education systems can compete favorably vs bringing back jobs that compete with low-paying jobs...

BYD is already facing scrutiny for running Evergrande like accounting, and a lot of political pressures from other Chinese manufacturers.
The risk is that they collapse like Evergrande, and that they drag public debt into it. The CCP might prop them up, so it light be safe.
A car is different from a book, because you need lifetime service for it. If they go under, you might lose access to parts.

LOL you're pulling stuff out of your ass.
They generally have it better than us, Europe.
Not even compared to the absolute shithole taht is the US where the workers rights are beyond pathetic.
You have to be ignorant, Sinophobic and spoonfed propaganda to write and belive these comments.
But then again you're american.

LOL losers, your education is shit compared to Chinese.
You've got nothing to offer to the world.

where our education systems can compete favorably

LOL are you sure about that?

List of Countries By Literacy Rate

The rate of literacy refers to the ability to sufficiently read and write. Many factors, such as accessibility and quality of education, can contribute to these rates.

WorldAtlas (www.worldatlas.com)

China ranks higher than the USA in literacy rates

LOL what workers rights do you clowns in the US have?

What did i write that is sinophobic?

The income stream would disappear, their operations would collapse and that would just be the end. There would not be another manufacturer that would flourish in the void left behind. Without the institutional know how and the existing structure, supply chain the current car manufacturing industry would never be able to restart if it ever stopped.

The social darwinism of the globalist free market is meant for crushing the spirit and bargaining power of individual workers, they are replaceable, disposable, interchangeable. General Motors and Ford aren't.

I will strongly disagree with “over engineered”. Why a car company with all their money and bailouts that they can’t compete with Apple/Android on touchscreen features and responsiveness is the whole reason why Chinese cars will kill American car companies. Chinese cars support Android auto even when Google play services isn’t even available in China (last I checked).

Maybe the USA should heavily invest in the industry of the USA, just like China does, in order to keep up? No, then USian companies would have oversight & have to meet expectations, and we all know that they wouldn’t want that.

Mourning the loss of the Saturn in the world.

Also labor price is unmatched. Nobody would work for the wage they give to children in China, so you can't really go that much cheaper while not sacrificing safety.

Not saying Chinese cars are that well made.

Sure, but the US has a lot of well-educated people (e.g. see the Education Index), as well as a lot of opportunities for well-educated people to get in-demand jobs that pay well.

Literacy rates are interesting, but they don't translate to well-paying jobs like education attainment rates.

It won't be them living the reality though, it will be their subordinates and employees. The same ones already being crushed to death by production metrics, stagnation of wages and inflation. The people involved in these decision making processes are too well shielded from the actual consequences, beyond maybe driving past and seeing the ruins of what used to be towns/cities/neighbourhoods destroyed by the free market and social policies.

Like we don't have child labor here in the good ol' USA.

Right? The only thing on the market for EVs in the US right now is "luxury" crossovers and trucks. What people really want is an electric civic hatchback.

Not an American, but it's worth saying that despite their labour market's galling shortfalls, they don't have a culture of 12 hour days for 6 days per week. Many work much less, and those who do pull those kinds of hours are typically tradesmen/women who make pretty good bank. Those types of jobs are being systematically eliminated by corporations, but I digress.

Hold on, in advanced education here in my area of the states, almost half the population of students in classes I see are of Chinese or Indian backgrounds and most are here on foreign visas.

If the education is so shit, why are there so many foreign students studying here and paying insane amounts of money to do so.

Well, this is where specific targetted protectionist policies can work, provided they are used just to buy time to catch up, deploy industrial policy, subsidies, to differentiate and for RnD and not just to bury your head in the sand and keep making expensive shit products.