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What large U.S., Japanese, European, and Korean automakers were able to sell in the U.S. ≠ what BYD could theoretically sell without tariffs and non-tariff technical barriers to trade (US-specific safety regs) today

BYD could absolutely do this if they were able to sell cars here. They are incredibly competitive everywhere they are allowed to sell cars. It is cope to insist that they can't manage. They pretty obviously can

Right, if you erect all sorts of counterproductive non-tariff barriers to trade, market outcomes are very different from what they might otherwise be

Yet another manifestation of the not-invented-here syndrome that is extremely pervasive in this country.

i think they’ll probably get a factory in the us within 10 years or so there would be controversy of course but i think it’d still happen eventually

The article says you couldn’t register and insure it, we have too many technical barriers to trade in the form of safety regulation (ironically)

Auto market is ready for a turnover. Will be interesting to see how the new ‘free market’ regime handles the free market forces. Sad if it will really be just tariffs instead of making affordable vehicles regardless of energy source.

Parking minimums (which they eventually repealed), low height limits in the zoning code, some amount of highway-oriented planning.

And now they’ve got that very highway-oriented business district at Santa Fe (and they are not pursuing European-style regional rail solutions for the rail that is being built there and which already exists in the northern suburbs)