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It’s probably a pricing thing. I can imagine BYD is aggressively pricing now in Europe and Europeans in general have less disposable income.
by arresin 1y ago
It’s probably a pricing thing. I can imagine BYD is aggressively pricing now in Europe and Europeans in general have less disposable income.
- dagw 1y agoIt’s probably a pricing thing. It really isn't or at least not just price. BYD, at least in Sweden, are not cheap cars in an absolute sense. Many car brands have cars that are cheaper than the cheapest car BYD sells in Sweden. MG, Peugeot, Citroen and others all have smaller and cheaper EVs if what you mainly care about is price. BYDs focus is much more on value for money at the mid level.
- AlecSchueler 1y ago> It really isn't Right? Surprised to see speculation about something easily disprovable on this forum.
- rsynnott 1y agoNah; BYD are subject to tariffs, and they haven't brought their lowest-end stuff to Europe. They're not particularly cheap, and don't as far as I know compete on at all in the sub-30k space. This is really a story of (a) BYD rising from a low base and (b) Tesla plummeting; the biggest manufacturer at the moment isn't either of them (it's VW AG).
- bryanlarsen 1y agoBYD just announced the "Dolphin Surf" with a 20k introductory price for Europe.
- rsynnott 1y agoUh, huh, they've actually launched it vs just talking vaguely about it now, apparently, yeah. Yeah, okay, that'll be a big shakeup.