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China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball (www.nytimes.com)

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This upcoming competition means that it's incredibly important for US makers to figure out how to profitably make inexpensive electric vehicles, instead of merely focusing on the biggest most expensive trucks and SUVs

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, the single most powerful corporate industry of the twentieth century, who had EVs thirty years ago, and so horribly mismanaged everything the taxpayers were forced to give them billions of bailout money, is gonna be hurt by affordable cars people want.

Oh boo fucking hoo. You fucked around for a century. Eat shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is true, but companies also have workers, who support communities. Those that fucked around will not be those finding out, even if their portfolios perform poorly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Oh no! The Mexican workers building domestic cars will now be building Chinese cars!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

If the companies gave a shit about the workers we wouldn't be having this discussion either. We'd have EVs the workers built instead of clinging desparately to ICE and petroleum.

They don't give a shit. Detroit already showed that decades ago. Why are they being intractable assholes about producing a good affordable EV? Well, the answer's in the question - they're intractable assholes.