BYD is kicking off a price war with gas-powered cars as new lower-priced electric vehicles begin rolling out. After launching the new Qin Plus EV Honor Edition on Monday, BYD said it’s “officially opening a new era of electricity is lower than oil.”
Meanwhile in the US the entire automatic industry are keeping prices of EVs higher than crap and also eliminating their affordable car lines.
Qin Plus EV Honor Edition
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If the entry model came to the US, it could become the Ford Taurus or Toyota Camry of electrics. But the charging infrastructure would need to build up massively to be able to support that kind of volume.
The fact that they’re hitting both low end and high end (plus everything in between) should be massively concerning to every car company.
Don’t worry, they will pay politicians to make it illegal for them to sell here.
Should we be rooting for or against this company. I’m all for competition, but Elon Musk has made me lose faith in any car company.
Rooting for any company is always a bad idea. Companies are never your friend. They’ll always put profits first - way before ethics, values or even laws or common sense. Don’t trust them, don’t depend on them and especially don’t root for them.
Hear hear! This is one of the few black-and-white things in life. Every little thing a company does (or says) is meant for the betterment of their next quarterly report.
No matter how much a company says they “stand with” anyone, regardless of the popularity of the cause, their goal is to look better and convince more people that only they offer truly ethical consumption.
To be fair, I enjoy spectating any and all drama between the corps. However, in the immortal words of a shitty sci-fi movie poster: Whoever wins, we lose.
Parts count on EVs is an order of magnitude less than combustion. They should scale for batteries and motors with the price being an order of magnitude less expensive to build them. The foundry, machining, and precision parts of combustion are massive operations.
The real problem is that military tech relies on the same supply chain and EV’s don’t handle battle quite like combustion. So what does the USA do? Pretend that this is not the real issue and build luxury EV’s instead because the scale will still follow the lower end.
Mark my words, until you see most military vehicles going electric, we won’t see low cost mass produced EV’s. It has nothing to do with what is best for any of us. It has everything to do with exploitation and killing people abroad over petty nonsense for the most part.
I’m not in the US but have been waiting for these cars to make their way here. We already have other cars by Chinese companies and I just saw my first one today.
I’ve curious about their pricing. Hopefully they are cheap here too.
Sadly, I don’t have a way to charge an electric car at my condo.
