Yes they are all over here in the SFBA CA, but they’re owned as a status symbol.
Ha. I get a real good idea of status when I see someone driving one. Probably all different from what the owner intends.
The electric semis and freight trucks are built for specific routes or localish deliveries. The range is sufficient for the transport area. The base terminal has charging for overnight/day charging. Long haul is still infrastructure constrained.
Long haul really ought to be done by trains, which are easier to electrify (though it would take a fair bit of up-front infrastructure investment). It would also require a non-dysfunctional rail industry.
Last two cross-country trips it took no more than 20 minutes to charge after about 2hours/200km of driving. Suppposedly Semi superchargers are 2 to 4 time the auto chargers, so less than half an hour. However, in-town local deliveries are ideal- stop and go traffic with regen capturing some of the energy, no pollution or waste idling, return to home base to charge overnight at a lower rate, and in the long run, far less maintenace.
Once Elon faded from the election news, I haven’t seen that much hostility toward him here in Canada. He’s still an idiot viewed negatively, but the cars work.
From that other country in North America… About 100,000 EVs were sold in Mexico in 2025, and 84% of them were from BYD.
That raises the question; what happens if an American buys a Chinese EV in Mexico and tries to bring it to the United States?
I expect similar rules as discussed upthread about Canada, which can pretty much be summed up as: you can’t import a new(ish) car to the US unless it is essentially the same as a car already sold in the US.
You can drive those cars into the US, though. I’ve seen Mexican and Canadian tagged cars in the US. Bellow is an example of one that was never sold on the US.
Meanwhile, in yesterday’s earnings call, Musk said that - Tesla is discontinuing the X and S (low-selling high end vehicles), has no plans for other vehicles because the robotaxi is the end-all and be-all of future transportation, and anyway he’s going to concentrate on AI and Robotics, and twisting arms to get people to rent Full Self Driving for new vehicles going forward. .
So for sure, Chinese vehicles will dominate the world in a year or three.