04-03-2025
- Automotive
- Washington Post
Australia, with no auto industry to protect, is awash with Chinese EVs
SYDNEY — Shoppers streamed through a Sydney strip mall on a recent morning, past dueling mattress outlets, and into the neon glow of a BYD megastore. As a robot brought them BYD-branded water bottles, the potential customers examined rows of gleaming electric vehicles.
Vanessa Farrer had already paid for one of the Chinese vehicles — a Sealion 6 plug-in hybrid SUV that cost about $31,000 — and was waiting for it to be delivered a week later.
