I live in Germany, which has its automobile industry being shredded into pieces by China, and it's for a good reason though.<p>China is so ahead of the west in EVs, their battery tech, supply chain and also expertise is so amazing.<p>In China, you can buy even a car with swappable batteries. They are also extremely cheap in comparison to the West.<p>For people that live in the best Chinese cities and work in a white collar job, it's very cheap as well. Cheaper than it is in America or Europe as the purchase parity there is much higher.<p>The West needs to drop the "free markets economics" and heavily invest and subsidize EVs, they are the future.<p>We can't afford to wait 10 years and lag behind so much, China will end up producing all cars in the world and that's millions of well-paid jobs.<p>Go to Brazil and you'll see how many BYDs are everywhere. China will unfortunately eat the entire third-world car market, which has long been a good line of profit to US/EU car manufacturers.