That's only going to make the inevitable crash of tesla take down the rest of his companies as well.

I bought it used at half the price from new. But yes affordable may be overstating it, what I meant was non luxury.
However there are affordable BEV now that start at half the price of the VW ID.4, and some of them are actually pretty decent.
I just preferred the bigger more luxurious car used at a similar price.

In the US at least, I really don't see hydrogen ever taking off. Even in California, there's so few stations that you can't really travel from the top of the state to the bottom without going out of your way. The hydrogen fuel stations that are in place are even more expensive than they were a few years ago, if they're still functioning at all. We're talking like $180 USD for the equivalent of a tank of gas, at stations that aren't as convenient as a gas station or an outlet at home. It's even the subject of a lawsuit, which may or may not be successful.

It seems like hydrogen has already lost the race for the rest of the world, with BEV adoption growing substantially in Europe and China. Personally I wouldn't want my market to rely on solely Japan and a US headed by someone blatantly antagonistic to alternative fuels.

Toyota came out with their first decent fully battery electric this year, and AFAIK they have more models on the way for next year.
Problem with Hydrogen is that it has been about the potential for more than 2 decades now. And my guess is that it is even more behind batteries now than it was 20 years ago.
But there are use cases for hydrogen fuel cells, because of the lower weight, and my guess is the bigger energy waste with Hydrogen will be offset in the future by frequent temporary energy surpluses from renewables that can be used to make cheap hydrogen. But there are infrastructure problems, because it requires investments to go from the relatively easy charging stations for batteries, to transport and storage of hydrogen to enable "tanking up" a hydrogen based car. Also with electricity you can just charge a BEV at home.
So I still have my doubts about hydrogen, but we will see.

Toyota have some BEVs currently available, at least the Toyota bZ4x (with Subaru equivalent) and Lexus has the UX 300e and RZ. But certainly a bit late to the BEV party. There's supposed to be some new EV models coming this year.

In Europe we do produce EV, so tariffs make sense considering BYD and similar cars price are due to heavy CCP subsidies (direct and indirect). Sure the labor is cheap there, but not enough to sell cars that low.

You got batteries sold way under manufacturing price, but only for cars build by Chinese manufacturer (foreign manufacturers never get such discounts), you got various subsidies and payment facilities, unrestricted access to China rare earth monopoly, among other schemes.

Or just hoping for musk points

How much credit score you're gaining with this comment? Stupid question stupid answer

Check my comment history I hate elon as much as the next guy but I guess facts doesn't matter, glory to the ccp

Actually, it makes perfect sense if you believe the stock market is a huge grift.

It is not quite that bleak. They went from 100% EV for all new car sales in 2035, to 90% EVs and 10% being allowed as combustion engine cars.

That 10%'s emissions also has to be offset by EVs sold. And they are introducing a new M1E category for cars that needs to be Electric, European-built, and under 4.2 meters in length (Volkswagen Golf or smaller essentially). Each M1E car sold will count for 1.3 regular cars sold in terms of offset.

So essentially Europe is dangling a carrot to produce small, European-made EVs for the car manufacturers. And car manufacturers still need to produce 90% of their cars as EVs

Isn't it "just" delayed untill 2035?

I also find it hilarious that every global multinational offshored everything they possibly could to China, thus their own operations are directly subsidised by the CCP and Chinese labor, yet they cry foul when consumers buy from them directly.

"Sure we cut 90% of our western workforce, dramatically reduced the quality of jobs and pay for the remaining 10%, directly financing and empowering the CCP for decades, and kept all the profits for ourselves, but consumers are the terrible ones for not supporting our skeleton onshore operation (which we will automate 100% of if able to)"

Wasn't Tesla subsidized on the buyer side? Meaning people had freedom of choice. Other EVs were also subsidized.

The issue with the Chinese EVs are that the competition doesn't get these subsidies. No other government can afford to subsidise an entire auto industry including exports, to this degree. China's goal is to drive competitors out of business - after that they can jack up the prices. Whereas if you get an EV purchase subsidy, those generally don't discriminate between brands so the goal is to increase EV adoption.

Good question. I know there is to some extent, but I haven't really taken a look at it yet.