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That BYD U8 is $150k. Who can afford that shit?


Nobody, unfortunately Chinese vehicles are not sold in the US of A. Which is too bad, we need the competition.


That's like knocking Toyota affordability because the Lexus LS whatever is >$100k.

BYD has $10k cars and >$150k cars


If approximately half the cost of an EV is the battery pack I'm terrified by the prospect of a $10k car...


Yea I do want to know what the costing on this is. It's a bit hard to figure for BYD because:

(a) there's unknown government subsidies going on, and

(b) they mine and refine their own lithium and make their own batteries (also make Tesla's batteries too, I think). So their battery cost is... unusually low




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