11 June

Thanks to @[1112555254:2048:Dan] for the tip. A BYD Seal, an absolutely superb car which insiders liken to a Mercedes in quality, costs $50K in Australia. That's almost giving it away. In the EU and soon US, the price? Up to $90K. They've put huge tariffs on Chinese EVs, to protect their car industries. Now's a brilliant time to be Australian, because we don't have any bloated, entitled, heavily-subsidised car industries to protect. Don't listen to the BS from them about China 'subsidising' EVs, and therefore we need tariffs. Of course they're subsidising EVs, just as Western governments have always heavily subsidised petrol and diesel. That's why big utes sell well here right now, because they get huge government subsidies. We need emergency speed to transition to EVs, and China is the world's best bet. And the cars are really superb, and outrageously cheap, if you live in Australia. They're also only just getting started. Ditch your bullshit combustion clunker at your next buy, completely rubbish technology from the day it was invented. Not only are you supporting a lazy and entitled industry, you're also paying more than $2/litre to offshore oil wells to fuel the bloody thing, killing millions with air pollution and helping incinerate the planet with climate change.