And what it means for US climate goals.
  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    243·
    6 个月前

    Massive subsidies? Selling the cars at a loss? Using conflict minerals? Slave labor? All of the above?

    • schizoidman@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      83·
      6 个月前

      Conflict materials can be avoided with LFP batteries that are basically only made in China.

      • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
        4·
        6 个月前

        Or buying from a company that traces source of origin for their components such as Polestar.

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      6 个月前

      The automakers less so. They don’t particularly care what powers the cars people buy, so long as people buy them. They were in the process of pivoting to electric platforms, but, being as terminally stupid as they are, a lot of that has been put on hold while they try to figure out why their current $100,000 offerings aren’t selling by the millions.

      • Wooster@startrek.websiteEnglish
        51·
        6 个月前

        Automakers care about how much R&D they have to invest and the impact on the quarterly profits. ICEs are dirt cheap in that regard, and it took the federal government bribing them to do so.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
    111·
    6 个月前

    Two paragraphs that don’t answer the question in the title, and a request for donations. Useless.

    • XTL@sopuli.xyz
      61·
      6 个月前

      Here’s a fixed article:

      There’s no war and US doesn’t care.

  • londos@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 个月前

    Putting aside politics, macroeconomics and questions about build quality, one unavoidable answer is…because they want to. The US should get more ambitious.

  • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    6 个月前

    The west needs to turn on the heat for legacy automakers management

  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
    79·
    6 个月前

    Because they give zero shits about passenger safety, pedestrian safety, worker rights, customer rights, are owned by the government, and steal all their tech instead of putting in the work themselves?

    • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      6 个月前

      I thought you were talking about GM for a second. Tell us more about how US truck/SUVs are so great for pedestrian safety, the child labor at the Hyundai plant in the south, the relentless spyware and horrible data privacy practices, the US auto bailouts, and their “innovation”. I have no love for Chinese EVs, but the US domestic market has plenty of problems on their own.

      • Kaboom@reddthat.com
        17·
        6 个月前

        You do realize American have sensors that will you if theres a kid there, right? Just because some European urbanite who has never driven a car thinks hoods are too tall doesnt mean he knows what hes talking about.