New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China

supersnoop said:

BYD e6 was permitted in Canada.
Chinese cars are no different from any other car. As long as you do all the certifications, you can sell. It would take a special order from the Prime Minister to stop it. If a Chinese company was willing to invest all this time and money to build dealerships, hire a workforce to staff dealerships, office, support staff, service centres, etc. you don't think that the permit would go through?

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Well, no Chinese company has invested anything in Canuckstan.

I don't know the details, but this dude in China can help people buy Chinese EV's and ship them to their countries, except US and Canada. I assume there are some regulations that prevents Chinese EV's from getting permits.


In this video, the dude that tested the BYD Seagull mentioned the car is not US compliant.


I guess BYD has to make some changes to make their cars to comply with American and Canadian regulations.

vincent said:

Well, no Chinese company has invested anything in Canuckstan.

I don't know the details, but this dude in China can help people buy Chinese EV's and ship them to their countries, except US and Canada. I assume there are some regulations that prevents Chinese EV's from getting permits.

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In this video, the dude that tested the BYD Seagull mentioned the car is not US compliant.

I guess BYD has to make some changes to make their cars to comply with American and Canadian regulations.

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If they are making the effort to hire lobbyists for the Canadian market, they clearly think they have a reasonable chance of getting into the country. They are already operational in Canada with a bus factory. So, this is not an entirely new market for them. Now, they will not try the US market anytime soon. But Canada is a little different. BYD is already in UK, Australia and NZ. I don't see why they can't sell in Canada. They just need to make their cars Canada compliant.

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BYD registrations so far in the past 5 weeks.


Indonesia auto market in July. BYD is top 10 now.

Okay, I do not know anything about the US laws and all that.

Just wondering if Canada has the same thing going with the real Prime Minister Freeland announcing the anti-China EV tariff policy.

According to this guy, the video guy, who is an American, there are loopholes to the Biden administration legislation.

Damn, this could get really weird, if this is the case, and Canada shuts out the Chinese EV, but the Americans only kind of does not fully do it, eh.

Official confirmation of FanChengBao Bao-8 using Huawei ADS 3.0

There will be more cooperation here.

vincent said:

Well, no Chinese company has invested anything in Canuckstan.

I don't know the details, but this dude in China can help people buy Chinese EV's and ship them to their countries, except US and Canada. I assume there are some regulations that prevents Chinese EV's from getting permits.

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In this video, the dude that tested the BYD Seagull mentioned the car is not US compliant.

I guess BYD has to make some changes to make their cars to comply with American and Canadian regulations.

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Senior disapproves.

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vincent said:

Well, no Chinese company has invested anything in Canuckstan.

I don't know the details, but this dude in China can help people buy Chinese EV's and ship them to their countries, except US and Canada. I assume there are some regulations that prevents Chinese EV's from getting permits.

I guess BYD has to make some changes to make their cars to comply with American and Canadian regulations.

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There are no special laws per se. But there are many regulations that need to be followed to be road legal. Things like bumper size (NA bumpers are usually bigger), mandatory crash testing, etc.

It's easy to export to a lot of other countries where the only regulation is an envelope of cash (NA has a larger bureaucracy, too many envelopes, too expensive.) On a more serious note, a lot of smaller countries just rely on the certification of larger countries (EU, Japan, probably China now too).

Xpeng is considering to build a factory in an EU country.

Xpeng's battery EV Mona M03 was launched as a competitor of Tesla Model 3, but with about half of the price. It received 10,000 firm orders in one hour. Xpeng claims it is one of the most aerodynamic sedans in mass production.

My observation is that Xpeng should either merge with likes of VW SAIC or go with HW ADAS. It is really in an awkward position at the moment. On the left there is NIO for pure electric; on the right there is LI Auto for plugin hybrid; on top there is BYD; on luxury segments with self-driving there are HW ADAS 4界 plus Avatr.