If your vehicle was not manufactured for sale in the U.S., it’s unlikely that it will be certified for use in Canada. Most vehicles manufactured for sale in countries other than the United States cannot be imported into Canada because they do not comply with the Motor Vehicle Safety Act requirements.
A car can be certified to be sold in Canada on its own without being certified in the US. For example, a (long) while ago GM was rebadging Daewoo Lacettis (made in SK) as Chevy Optra for sale in Canada, but not the US
Canada and the US has almost exactly the same safety standards for cars to easily facilitate the manufacturing and sale of cars between each other, but that doesn't mean that a car HAS to be sold in both countries.
lol, except Trump already said he'd welcome Chinese automakers to build factories in America.
Now, I must say that BYD will not enter US PV market anytime soon.
Keep in mind that Canada is not US. BYD is already in the rest of 5-eye nations as well as Japan and India.
As for your commentary about Canadian political system, you are quite off. And I'd suggest that you not go off topic.
You are right that BYD's most likely bet to enter the Canadian market would be through Mexico. As long as they can meet the USMCA parts value quotas, it cannot be tariffed, at least not without making special laws that can be challenged in court.
That being said, I don't often agree with henrik, but in this case the government was clearly following Biden's lead. All the language closely mirrors the US government's "policy of overproduction, blah blah blah".
This is just retarded. Most of Canada's population is in the East. That area has huge hydropower and nuclear generation thus plenty of cheap electricity. So Canada much like Norway or Sweden would hugely benefit economically from switching to EVs. They should in fact be embracing EV production including the construction of Chinese EV factories in Canada. That they do not just shows how myopic and politically captured by the US government the Canadian government is.
Hydropower is so plentiful in the East (and BC) that Electricity is literally synonymous with electricity. Most of the provincial electrical utilities are called XX-Hydro (Hydro-Quebec, Ontario Hydro, etc.). Ontario actually has one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world (Bruce Power), and it is half mothballed due to low demand. All coal plants were shut down years ago.
That being said, the biggest hurdles for Chinese EV factories in Canada would be the business case itself. Before building the plant itself, you would need stores (and sales) first. The average assembly plant in Canada is outputting about 100K cars per 1000 workers and most production goes to the USA. Without US sales, there is no point in trying to open a plant in Canada.
There are two options in the current environment.
Mexican Option (as chosen by BYD)
South Korean Option (as chosen by Geely, NA destined Polestar production will be moving to SK to avoid tariffs, both US and Canada have a FTA with ROK)
