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There is a huge startup opportunity, steal this idea: US Governement doesn't allow BYD imports BUT you can lease a car from Canada for a year in US So lease
by ck2 4mo ago
There is a huge startup opportunity, steal this idea:
US Governement doesn't allow BYD imports
BUT you can lease a car from Canada for a year in US
So lease BYD a year at a time with Canadian plates, etc. to US drivers
- pjc50 4mo agoSome US politicians were proposing a total ban on allowing cars of Chinese origin into the US, which is rather extreme. They don't want to risk US nationals seeing them and wanting them.
- gedy 4mo agoYou see them occasionally in southern California with Mexican plates
- ck2 4mo agoThere you go, so someone turn that into a frictionless service Every year you just exchange the car/lease/plate whatever Once enough people drive $5000 electric cars they will insist politicians allow them officially Detroit is doomed anyway once 9 out of 10 workers is replaced with "AI" controlled bots
- ben_w 4mo ago> Detroit is doomed anyway once 9 out of 10 workers is replaced with "AI" controlled bots As a non-American, I'd kinda assumed Detroit's car industry was already long-gone. Wasn't its industrial decline the inspiration for a bunch of dystopian films in the 80s and 90s?
- ck2 4mo agoCanadian snowbirds drive their cars and RVs into the US all the time all the way down to the southern states There's just a limit to how long the car can be in the US So lease for a year at a time from Canada Musk himself was an illegal Canadian import so hey only fair lol
- giarc 4mo agohttps://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/proposed-us-bill-targets-canadian-drivers-chinese-cars https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/proposed-us-bill-ta...