  > The Chinese are a decade ahead of the west when it comes to building cars.

Is this true? From years of watching Top Gear any Chinese car that was tested was laughably bad.

▲ m-s-y 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For EVs, yes, absolutely

Yip, outside the US BYD cars are absolutely everywhere, pretty awesome cars, and crazy cheap - like < $15k. Apparently < $10k within China itself.

	▲	ShinyLeftPad 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The price is not the important part, it basically doesn't matter. On top of subsidies and government policy aiming to undermine manufacturing in EU and elsewhere, domestic consumption in PRC is laughably low and government policies act to transfer wealth from households to manufacturing. Locals won't buy the supply, PRC literally has to get these cars somewhere or trash them. Now if those cars are actually good, price independent, then that would be worth mentioning.

▲ CamperBob2 10 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe I'm dating myself, but I remember when the same was said of Japanese cars.

First we laughed at them, then we fought them, then they won, then we solved the problem with protectionist tariffs.