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What would it take to bring something like this to the US? Is it just not road legal (safety wise) to meet North American standards? I'd pay a 50% (or more) pre

• isopede 4y ago
  I recall reading a story last year about a guy who went through this process to import a cheap EV pickup to use around his farm[1]. I believe it cost him about $3k-4k in shipping and fees. 1. https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-holding-up/ https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-h...
  • Bimos 4y ago
    The pickup in this link is not legal (neither as automobile like normal cars/pickups nor as non-motor vehicles like bicycles/electric-bicycles) in China, too. But the BYD one is totally legal in China.
• TheAdamist 4y ago
  Not road legal. Youd need the manufacturer to do all that paperwork+engineering. People have imported cheap Chinese evs for farm or questionably legal neighborhood ev usage.
  • chii 4y ago
    > +engineering what sort of extra engineering is required to make it road legal? I assume paperwork is really just certification to prove it meets existing regulations, but if the car requires "extra" engineering, then that's a big problem isnt it?
    • netsharc 4y ago
      The car is probably made to security standards of the markets it's aiming for, and some places (like China) have weaker standards than US/Europe. If BYD planned to sell the model in US/Europe, then they would've engineered it to meet their security standards and just need to do "the paperwork" of submitting a few cars for (crash-)testing to satisfy the authorities.