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Meanwhile in the EU, Chinese EVs face crippling tariffs that make them totally unaffordable.

• gib444 6mo ago
  Which EU countries? I see LOADS of them as taxis in Spain, for example
  • Sweepi 6mo ago
    EU-wide tariffs: 10% on any imported car and an additional.. BYD: 17% Geely Group: 19% SAIC Group: 35% Tesla (Shanghai): 8% XPeng, Nio, ...: 21% Others: 35% [1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/eu-tariffs-imports-china-made-evs-2026-02-11/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/eu-tariffs-imports-china... [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202402754 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...
  • schnitzelstoat 6mo ago
    I live in Spain. I think the ones you see here are likely hybrids as there is little/no EV infrastructure here and the hybrids are exempt from the tariffs (for now). I can't remember if plug-in hybrids are exempt as well or only conventional hybrids.
    • gib444 6mo ago
      I think I may have misremembered. It was only in Alicante than almost all my app-ordered taxis were BYD (fully electric, definitely not hybrid) Loads of Teslas and BYD in Lisbon too