Oh I guess we don't care about stopping the climate crisis anymore, US oligarchs making money is clearly more important!
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why would they NOT help make the transition to EVs cheaper?
this reads like a bad thing, just because it might hurt the us?
I don't think it's about EVs. My understanding is that it's about protecting American auto manufacturers from "unfair" overseas competitors. There is a history here.
:: incoming semi-coherent rant::
Volkswagen was one of the first auto manufacturers to come to the US back in the 1950s. The us government set up a framework that allowed foreign manufacturers to establish themselves in the states. This was supposed to help the economy by making sure the cars sold here were manufactured here and abused by a set of standards the governing bodies set up.
Well eventually the Japanese got into the game and when brands like Toyota established themselves as cheaper and better than anything you could buy in America, the American car companies lobbied against it and won. This put a soft limit on how many cars could be imported from Japan (which in turn hurt Japan's economy). At the time there was a lot of sentiment going around that the Japanese were taking people's jobs so it actually was a very popular decision at the time (which seems weird because everyone was driving their cars).
Furthermore in the 1980s, people started importing and selling used cars from Europe. This hurt the auto manufacturers deeply as they could not compete with used luxury cars like Mercedes imported from Europe at those low used price points. This is why the auto manufacturers lobbied for a 25 year ban on the import and sale of cars (though they claim it was for safety, it was really to kill the grey market for imports).
The Truth is that a lot of other countries also followed the US in these Bans. Canada has the 20 year import ban and Europe has their own set of regulations.
Chinese cars and EVs will come to the West Eventually but first they'll come under the names of brands that are already here like Volvo. You won't see a Geely branded vehicle for a while unless they open up a Geely of America branch and begin shipping their parts here for assembly. This however will prevent them from having as much as a competitive edge in the US because labor is more expensive in the states than China and South East Asia.
Do they want you to transition to EVs? Yes. Do they want it to be cheap? No.
so what? western manufacturing crushed us and we were forced to hear that was the "free market" in action.
china is the only indistrialized country pushing new tech affordably and its now suddenly unfair you cant compete?
It is unfair, it's just not "suddenly".
i dont see you guys having that much of a problem with it when the "free" market is being unfair to us.
It's literally that one calebcity skit where he keeps shooting scientists that are making groundbreaking inventions because it threatens his profits lol
I love how threatened the American capitalist class is about competition.
Makes sense... The only version of capitalism that works is government protected monopolies for a few... The only competitive strategy they know is lobbying
This reminds me of the shift in the car market when Japanese cars entered the market after the Oil Crisis. American auto makers, used to building unreliable land yachts, couldn't adapt fast enough. Now we have American car makers building electric land yachts that people can't afford, and are threatened by cheaper foreign cars.
But unlike Japan, they can't force China into Plaza Accord and are panicking.
artificially depressed prices They're pulling an Amazon? China hasn't committed to any steps to address American concerns And your problem with that is that this isn't a state approved campaign to destroy the American working class?
I have no problem with this, I’d buy a Chinese Ev today if they were available.
I'm getting my xpeng g9 in 2 weeks.
I bought a MG4, I'm extremely happy with this car and I hope the arrival of Chinese EV will lower the price of all EVs.
Have you seen the new Xiaomi SU7? Holy crap, that thing looks nice!
It's actually absurd how the Xiaomi SU7 can sell for the same price as a decent Camry.
And designed by an ex Porsche designer
Is that why it takes so many design cues from the Taycan? Makes sense actually...