Then we need non-Chinese competition - including competing on price.<p>In Australia there's simply nothing close on price and functionality to BYD and MG, both Chinese. I imagine the situation in France is similar. The cheapest Tesla is about 20,000$ more than the cheapest MG.<p>Toyota should have been leading competition on electric cars. How sad they're ignoring them.
The headline kind of buries the lede. They're actually redoing their EV incentives to take into account carbon in manufacturing.<p>Which is a good thing.<p>They claim that it's got an ulterior motive to prefer locally made cars, which may be true, but this kind of carbon trade tariff is a vastly underused tool in battling climate change.