[HN Gopher] $11,000 EV unveiled by BYD
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       $11,000 EV unveiled by BYD
        
       Author : hochmartinez
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-04-19 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.thestreet.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.thestreet.com)
        
       | gigel82 wrote:
       | What would it take to bring something like this to the US? Is it
       | just not road legal (safety wise) to meet North American
       | standards? I'd pay a 50% (or more) premium to get it here.
        
         | isopede wrote:
         | I recall reading a story last year about a guy who went through
         | this process to import a cheap EV pickup to use around his
         | farm[1]. I believe it cost him about $3k-4k in shipping and
         | fees.
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         | 1. https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-
         | its-h...
        
         | TheAdamist wrote:
         | Not road legal. Youd need the manufacturer to do all that
         | paperwork+engineering.
         | 
         | People have imported cheap Chinese evs for farm or questionably
         | legal neighborhood ev usage.
        
       | sourcecodeplz wrote:
       | For city use sure, otherwise looks like a death-trap when
       | compared with standard US vehicle sizes and mass...
        
       | cs702 wrote:
       | A better (non-paywalled link) is:
       | 
       | https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/other/shanghai-auto-show-cro...
       | 
       | BYD seems to be the only EV maker of sufficient scale that could
       | compete with Tesla on unit cost.
        
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