Toyota still sells 10M cars a year and has an enormous manufacturing, supplier and dealer network. That doesn’t disappear overnight because BYD can sell a $14k EV in one market

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swiftcoder 21 hours ago | parent [-]

> BYD can sell a $14k EV in one market

Outside of the US, are there any markets BYD can't sell that car into? The Dolphin is currently listing at well under €20k here in Spain, which means its only real competition is the equivalently incredibly cheap Dacia Spring

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randunel 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Dacia Spring is also made in China.

	▲	swiftcoder 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sure, but the Dacia brand as whole has been here for a long time, so they should have a reputational advantage over a newcomer like BYD. The Sandero compact SUV in particular is extremely popular (in a large part due to how cheap it is)

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dzhiurgis 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Europe isn't good example either as it's heavily tarriffed

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usrnm 18 hours ago | parent [-]

That makes it even worse for european automakers, if they cannot compete even with a heavily tariffed BYD

	▲	epolanski 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We don't have materials, we don't have energy. Not sure how are we supposed to thrive in a world where cars are very simple and our know-how is borderline useless. Imho cars are a dead race-to-the-bottom business, that was true in ICE world, that will be even more true in the electrified/autonomous driving one.