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weird how the best selling EV in the world and even china is the American Tesla Model Y then
by leesec 1y ago
weird how the best selling EV in the world and even china is the American Tesla Model Y then
- verdverm 1y agoBYD sells more than Tesla now
- boznz 1y agoOnly because Elon acts like a dick sometimes, not that the cars are better.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoEven if true, a useless distinction. You’d need a clean the Elon off Tesla and make it desirable to a large portion of people.
- tracker1 1y agoNo, because China is HEAVILY subsidized and given unfair market advantages. It's pretty easy to advance tech when your country will steal secrets for you and completely ignore patent protections, violating treaties in doing so.
- throwacct 1y agoExactly. I don't understand why we always have to bash the US. I dislike the way China does business, and I believe the greatest error of the 20th century was moving all manufacturing there. I don't know why the government allowed companies to move everything to Asia when we could have killed two birds with one stone by moving operations to Latin America. This would keep all manufacturing on the continent and result in much less illegal migration to the US. Given the political climate of the past 20 years, China hasn't had to do much to plot the United States' demise or at least become the top economic power in 20 years or less. That if the US gets its house in order and at least 2/3 of the country rallies around, becoming, cue the music, great again (I'll see myself out, hehe).
- verdverm 1y ago> I don't understand why we always have to bash the US because we still can (for now?) and it's better to introspect on how to improve oneself instead of putting everyone else down (unlike dear leader's example setting)
- adventured 1y agoAnd yet Tesla competes with BYD for total sales value. That should practically be impossible given this is China we're talking about.
- leesec 1y agolots of byd cars are 1/4th the price so makes sense
- iwanttocomment 1y agoTesla Model Y is number 3 in China so far this year. Model 3 is 8th. https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/what-were-best-selling-evs-china-first-half-2025/ https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/what-were-best-s...
- rsynnott 1y agoTesla's marketing strategy is to have one brand with essentially only two models (the two >100k ones and the silly truck are rounding errors and hardly count), thus each individual model will tend to sell more units. BYD has more models and a bunch of sub-brands, as does VW AG and Stellantis.
- leesec 1y agolol downvoted for saying a fact by the Chinese bots and Elon haters. get real