[deadlyllama]

When I looked at buying an EV last year, BYD was a serious option. In the end I decided on a second hand Nissan Leaf. In New Zealand, we're right hand drive and have no local auto makers. We import lots of second hand cars from Japan as a result. Like most New Zealanders, I've never owned a new car. Cheap Chinese EVs are somewhat cost competitive with second hand Japanese EVs which is crazy. Still not going to buy one. I'm happy that geopolitical tensions aren't going to stop spare parts being available.

[mattlondon]

I have similar sentiment in the UK but the leaf has the wrong fast-charge port! Everything is CCS apart from the nissan leaf and a few other older things. Give it another year or two and finding a chademo fast charger is going to be fairly challenging compared to CCS (where 100+ KW ones are becoming more and more prevalent now)