in the report, tesla was clear winner overall. range alone is not enough. my favorite is still the porsche macan ev followed by the taycan. i’m all in as a porsche owner. all other models are too low ses for me.Interesting test, but so complicated. So Polestar by Geely took 1st place, not bad. I shall stop thinking it is inferior to BYD. Hope BYD improves it's car's operating range in cold weather.
yeah, they made too many EVs. Plus the high EU tariffs imposed to protect their euro brands. But, like the situation with Canada and China, the EU is working to allow more chinese EVs on their roads. Once that happens, more will buy them because they're generally cheaper.
But worldwide, BYD is leading the pack. Eventually when they're sold in Canada, the lead will be wider.
ccp strategy is a broken canada so they can find a massive land base to ship cheap and unsafe evs via an entry into the u.s. and canada happens to have the longest border with u.s. problem is ntsb safety approvals are tough, and different from canada’s. trump and the next admin will ensure tiong evs in canada cannot enter u.s. for safety and regulatory reasons. also to protect detroit and other auto manufacturers. the dems will do it too as their voter base is massively auto workers union. canada is a non-market as on the canadian great highway between vancouver to toronto you see mainly trucks and rigs. the u.s. is by far the biggest auto market on the planet. tiong manufacturers can only salivate.yeah, they made too many EVs. Plus the high EU tariffs imposed to protect their euro brands. But, like the situation with Canada and China, the EU is working to allow more chinese EVs on their roads. Once that happens, more will buy them because they're generally cheaper.
EU and China are close to deal on electric cars, as Chinese EVs surge even with tariffs in Europe
Fred Lambert | Jan 12 2026 - 6:31 am PT
After months of back-and-forth and the looming threat of a full-blown trade war, the European Union and China are reportedly nearing a deal that would replace the EU’s controversial tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles with a minimum price undertaking.
It looks like sanity might prevail, or at least, a “soft landing.”
According to a new report from Associated Press, the European Commission and the Chinese government have agreed on a framework that allows Chinese automakers to avoid the punitive duties, which climbed as high as 35.3% for some manufacturers, by committing to a minimum import price for their EVs sold in Europe.
The European Commission published a guidance document on Monday detailing how these “price undertakings” will work. Essentially, instead of paying a tariff at the border, Chinese manufacturers like BYD, Geely, and SAIC can agree to sell their vehicles at or above a certain price floor. This floor is intended to offset the “unfair subsidies” that Brussels claims Beijing has been pouring into its domestic EV industry.
https://electrek.co/2026/01/12/eu-c...ric-cars-as-chinese-evs-surge-tariffs-europe/
they are not really being “sold”. they are shipped by the hundreds of thousands to ports in europe, latin america, asia, middle east and they just sit there in the ports. ccp uses a funny accounting method not according to world standard. once shipped to port or warehouse ccp considered that a sale and invoiceable, receipt or no receipt. like that anything stuck in a warehouse is considered “sold”, which is ludicrous. over 69k byd evs are still stuck in brazilian ports.
Yeah, if I were in the US, I'd buy a Taycan. Entry price is only about US$100k-120K. Mecan EV is only about US$80k. Both are considerably cheaper than an Xpeng G6 or BYD Sealion 7 in sg.
i won’t buy a tesla too. 69% of cecas in sillycon valley drive teslas. worst drivers on bay area roads. poor driving cecas have becum synonymous with teslas.
I don't think that's the CCP's strategy to destroy Canada.
Also I believe safety issues are not really an issue, more so they want to protect their own auto manufacturers. And the fear of being spied on, EVs are high tech with blue tooth and wifi connections. Scary stuff actually!
Are those cars sitting at the ports paid for? By buyers or importers?
Teslas and BYDs/Xpengs are priced almost the same in sg. Yeah I won't buy a tesla either, I find them too boring to look at, lacking in mechanical driver interface in the cabin (i need knobs and levers).
“importers” are tiongs who bought and rent swathes of warehouses at the docks. these importers (more like imposters) are connected to the ev companies. they help to move and distribute goods from tiongcock in nefarious and fraudulent ways. ccp sponsored tiongs have been buying warehouses in the west and building ports in 3rd world cuntries to do just that - move tons of goods and products from tiongcock to rest of the world and flood markets with heavily discounted prices. sooner or later some buyers or some corrupted or bribed officials will bite. it’s a race to the gutter in all their modus operandi, from spas to solar panels to sex to shiitake.
there are currently 22 provinces in china with 1 being disputed (tw). if ccp can’t proceed with 23 they can’t move to 24.
ccp will fuck it up just like they did with brazil. now brazil is very wary of nonstop container ships cumming from tiongcock. brazil is wondering why tiongcock is so desperate to ship unwanted products to brazil when brazilians don’t ask for them.
This is different because Canada sets a limit to the number of EVs that can be imported from China.
