Exactly - and the new EU safety standards will be limiting the size of screens in cars because of this.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091043/euro-ncap-safety-rating-europe-2026-touchscreen-buttons-dials

Tesla spies on you as much if not more, and is famous for locking out features. I’m not sure there’s much difference.

Nissan, BMW, Citroen all have a bunch of other lock-in too, but perhaps less than Chinese and American cars.

They’re Putin’s allies

And America isn’t?

They’ve been on sale in Europe for years and Tesla kept market share. Many everyday E-cars are chinese (MG, BYD etc), with Nissan and Citroen too.

But that was before the past couple of months and Tesla is now suffering hugely from reduced sales (70% in some countries) - but that has absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese ecars.

This is not true.