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Cheap Chinese EVs are suddenly everywhere in Mexico (www.latimes.com)
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BYD controls roughly 70% of Mexico’s EV market, with cheap vehicles attracting middle-class buyers seeking alternatives to rising gasoline costs and traditional electric cars.

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[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

You're saying "a lot of evidence" like it's some esoteric choice. It's in their most recent 5 year plan:

New Energy Technologies: Xi Jinping has announced that new energy technologies such as car batteries from state-owned enterprises will make it so that half of the vehicles in China be electric or fuel-cell powered, and half hybrid by 2035.

That's their goal, and they have a poorer population on average than western states, so it'd seem like "dumping" when it's just them not marking up their cars for the west.