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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

EV Central

Polestar and BYD were two of the new EV brands that arrived during the year and brands as diverse as Volkswagen and GWM confirmed their intention to start selling electric vehicles here in 2023. The BYD Atto 3 was my biggest surprise of 2022. Bruce Newton: BYD Atto 3. BYD Atto 3. It was also a year of EV milestones.

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Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese EVs, up from 25% to 100%

Baua Electric

With no other changes, its price would rise to ~$54k – unless or until Volvo moves production out of China , something BYD has also considered in order to enter the US market. But with these increased tariffs, that makes it less likely that US consumers will gain access to these cheap, high-tech Chinese EVs.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week. BYD is an amazing company. Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. BYD’s engineering prowess.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. I have no idea. In South America BYD seems the only E-bus act in town. Claim to fame: Peugeot-Citroen jumps into the fray — but Zoe takes the cake. Domestic market not shabby either.

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

News came out on Friday that President Biden is set to quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect the US auto industry from the rapid growth of Chinese EV manufacturing. The global auto industry is in a time of flux. Some company leadership favors the idea of tariffs , while other ( perhaps more sober ) leaders do not.

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