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

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.