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Get out of here with your facts and logic.
Good, keep that dangerous shit off our roads
If they are dangerous, why not just have strong safety regulations?
The Empire (aka USA) is not the land of free market? (irony) Fuck these bastards
This guy just can’t fucking save himself.
He makes one step in the right direction in Gaza and his very next step is to disappoint
I don’t understand why there are some people down voting you. The US auto industry products are relics from the 20th century and protecting it will make it worse. They’ll still lose the global auto market.
Rather than fixing the economy issues at home, we create more barriers to entry for affordable EV’s domestically. Fucking dinosaurs rich off dinosaur remains ruining the planet for our children.
If Chinese made EVs are forced through multiple levels of proper QA, they aren’t going to be as affordable as you think. Cheap shit from China is horrendously bad and good quality Chinese goods are just as expensive as domestic products.
Do you really want to sit on top of a few hundred pounds of lithium that wasn’t inspected properly?
The US can and does set quality standards for products sold on its markets. This doesn’t improve the quality of the cars sold in the US, it just makes them more expensive. It may even have the indirect effect of reducing the quality of vehicles sold in the US because increasing price instead of setting and enforcing quality and testing standards means lowering quality to maintain or increase profits is still an option.
But Tesla gets a pass for high prices for cheap shit and bad QA because…?
Made in America. I can’t understand that way of thinking. I buy the best option for myself, I don’t care if it’s made at home or on the other side of the world.
Tesla is shit with great PR and a “status symbol”
It’s really impressive the lack of knowledge in the US about china’s products. I can definitely say you have never been inside a BYD or GWM EV. The US car brands have no chance of durvival, the government wants to give them time to die a slow death so employees and shareholders have time to relocate to other industries. The only problem I’d that the ones paying the price will be, as always, the US customers. Just to give you a point of reference, the price for a Tesla 3 equivalent in china is 20,000 USD, let that sink.
It’s really impressive the lack of knowledge in the US about china’s products.
I know, right? If people actually opened up those cheap electronics they get from Temu or Amazon, they might actually see how dangerous they can be.
The thing is, cheap or expensive everything is made in china. You can buy a BYD and have state of the art technology in a car or a Chirey and pay peanuts for a car that does the job. Just like you can buy an iphone, made in china, or a Xiaomi for 50 bucks.
Cheap shit from China is horrendously bad and good quality Chinese goods are just as expensive as domestic products.
And here we are. Full circle.
The original Ender3 is a good example of a cheap 3D printer that went through almost zero QA. By some miracle, most printers worked and still do. However, it doesn’t take much to dig and find all the ones that were shipped with fake XTC connectors and were a fire hazard. There are plenty more examples I could dig up from personal experience. (We won’t even get into all the tools I have fixed where the chassis is referenced to mains or high voltage components had no, or insufficient, grounding.)
The US automotive industry already isn’t competitive abroad. This is only going to make it worse. Meanwhile the investors reap monopoly profits while the consumers pay the price. (And yes I know it’s technically an oligopoly.)
American cars are incredibly popular in Europe.
In terms of market share, the Volkswagen Group remains the market leader in the EU in December. The company from Lower Saxony secured 24.9 percent of the pie with all its brands. The Stellantis Group accounts for 16.7 percent with its brands. The Renault Group is in third place with 12.1 percent. The strongest individual brand in December 2022 was VW with a market share of 11.2 percent. Renault secured second place with 6.8%, just ahead of Mercedes (6.6%). Toyota (6.0%), BMW (5.8%), Audi (5.4%), Dacia (5.2%), Peugeot (4.8%), Skoda (4.4%), Hyundai (3.8%) and Ford (3.6%). Opel is on a par with its sister company Fiat with a market share of 3.3%, while Kia is just ahead of Seat (3.1%) with 3.2%. Volvo is ahead of Citroën with 2.7 percent.
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/eu-neuzulassungen-dezember-2022-gesamtjahr/
Yeah, Americans are absolutely dominating in Europe.
To be fair, China is massively subsidizing those manufacturers. Sky high tariffs are a pretty standard response to anti-competitive practices.
The barrier to domestic EVs is that dealers and manufacturers don’t like them because of the lower maintenance. We need to tighten efficiency standards to provide better motivation.
This has nothing to do with the economy as a whole which is doing great by all the standard metrics. It’s not great for those at the bottom, but they aren’t the market for new vehicles.
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted. What you say is accurate.
Sometimes that’s the best way to get downvoted.
Just Tesla gets $1.8b in subsidies per year from US government alone.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175397/teslas-cheaper-now-thanks-subsidies-musk-hated
China has spent $57 billion over 7 years on EV subsidies. The US subsidies are buyer incentives which, until recently, were available for foreign vehicles as well. A Tesla sold in China does not get subsidized. Chinese subsidies have included large direct subsidies on the manufacturing.
I personally see direct subsidies to corporations as a last resort since corporations seem to use them for nothing but stock buy-backs.
Sounds like China wanted it more.
China has surpassed the West in EV adoption and electrification overall, and we are here eating Play-Doh in our Cybertrucks.
Certainly, but that doesn’t mean the US can be dependent on China for it’s transition. As stated further up, I am very much in favor of government intervention to force auto makers to sell a lot more electrics. The current regulations are terrible.
Current evs are terrible. They lose some mileage every year until the battery completely fails when it’s 10 to 20 years old. At that point, if you had an EV with an actual usable range as a total replacement vehicle, you’re looking at $15,000 to replace a battery. The entire half of the US that needs to buy older used vehicles is going to be screwed, while the other half are paying much more for their new vehicles. The average American can’t afford the average new car.
I buy used and our vehicles are a 2013 Nissan Leaf and a 2017 Chevy Volt. We had to replace the battery on the leaf last year and it was $9k. It’s still the most economical vehicle we’ve ever owned. It’s not taking us on any cross country trips, but it’s got the range we need as our primary vehicle.
You are not wrong, but for a whole lot of Americans there are vehicles that fit their needs. Forcing auto makers to sell more would also force them to lower prices or increase quality.
Making hyperbolic generalized statements don’t really help your case.
Like “OMG you have to replace the battery after 10-20 years!”
How old is the oldest care you have ever owned? How much did you spend on maintenance in that time? Total Cost of Ownership matters.
To be honest, buying a new EV to replace a working gas car is almost as bad as just continuing to use it. Plus most US electricity is generated with fossil fuels. 22% of global emissions are from motor vehicles, but more than half that is commercial and would hardly be affected by consumer EVs.
I believe a far greater priority is to invest in rail structure, curbing both commercial and industrial use of road vehicles, which are both extremely inefficient methods of transport.
most US electricity is generated with fossil fuels
This is incorrect. Over the whole country on average about 60% comes from fossil fuels, but it varies massively by location and even what time of day you are charging. Note that in that list on Wikipedia you can sort by CO2 / TWh, which is the most helpful way of looking at it since they have a narrow definition of “renewables”. There are other such lists of course…
So blanket statements like “well it’s mostly coming from fossil fuels anyway” are simply not helpful. If you live in Vermont, Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, Idaho and quite a few others, you are not charging your EV with much in the way of fossil fuels, and probably then only at certain times of day.
A really good way to calculate this is to find CO2 emissions per Megawatt hour in your location by time of day. Not all generators provide this, but in California for example, there is a helpful dashboard: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/emissions.aspx
There are also efforts like https://watttime.org/ which can cycle usage based on emissions. They actually provide APIs for this data.
Can’t beat’em ban’em
I’ve never actually seen any Chinese EV cars in the States unless you count like, Volvo. (BYDs and MGs are getting quite popular in Australia though), so this tariff looks to be more political posturing than anything else.
BYD electric busses are made right outside Los Angeles, so they wouldn’t be subjected to the tariff at all, but that’s a whole other can of worms.
pathetic
China will make the same money from the cars and ultimately the consumer will pay an invisible tax on it.
I wouldn’t buy one because of China’s use of forced and slave labor.
