The EV thread

[Thryleon]

Cheap but built to a price and refinement in terms of attention to detail and suitability for Aus standards and conditions wouldnt be a major consideration imho.
More Chinese brands on the way too with Geely, Smart(2nd time around), Xpeng and a couple more, cant see some of the well known auto brands surviving.
The USA have really gone hard on tariffs and ways to make it harder for Chinese brands to enter their local car market but we seem to be accepting of anyone willing to supply EV's.

the tariff genie is out of the bottle for us.  We rely so heavily on imports that we can't reign that back in now, because they'll just make our import costs too high and then stop buying our stuff in favour of others.

The last couple of years isn't solely about what we've done but what the Chinese did to us too.