MG, Nio, BYD cars manage to pass UK and Australian safety tests, and end up with very good scores. US has EV incentives explicitly tied to domestic production,

MG, Nio, BYD cars manage to pass UK and Australian safety tests, and end up with very good scores. US has EV incentives explicitly tied to domestic production, so it's about industry protectionism. US probably doesn't want a repeat of what happened to Detroit industry after Japanese imports.