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      03-28-2019, 12:18 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by SFCM3 View Post
Why should China get any cars approved for sale in US? our market is tiny compared to theirs. It doesn't make any sense to jump through all the DOT and EPA hoops to get a car sold in the US when you can sell more than you can produce domestically.
Whether they get in or not is a separate story, but I've been hearing about this for a while (mostly from reading the Tesla forums):

Chinese electric cars prepare US blitz in 2020 despite trade war
GAC, Byton and NIO push ahead with launch plans, eager for new markets
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/El...pite-trade-war

Although a couple days ago China cut the EV subsidies in half:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...pur-innovation
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