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ck2 6 hours ago

steal this startup idea:

you can't buy BYD in the USA (thanks to Biden actually, not current admin)

BUT

there's a loophole to have a car from Canada in the USA for a year

so lease them from Canada to USA buyers for a year at a time

AlanYx 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not yet easy to buy BYD vehicles in Canada either. The first quota of 49,000 vehicles was only recently announced, and that's to be shared across all Chinese vendors.

melonpan7 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Provided they are available in Canada. There’s only roughly 50k imports in the first year and that will be split across all Chinese manufactured EVs (not necessarily Chinese brands). I assume the majority will be Teslas from their Shanghai factory.

anonymousab 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I expect that the US administration will very quickly ban these cars from being leased or resold into the US from Canada.

...if they're not banned from entering the USA altogether, which seemed to be the way the US President was leaning already.

dlev_pika 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think that if you maintain a policy, it becomes yours too.